I need a cracking Tiffin recipe

[MrsDoolittle]

I am completely addicted to Waitrose tiffin.
This is now beginning to cause me some concern.
So I am now thinking I should try making my own. Does aanyone else make their own?

[Greensleeves]

What the buggery bollocks is tiffin?

[DumbledoresGirl]

I make it but I don't know if the recipe is right...

[MrsDoolittle]

Greensleevs - probably better if you don't know - safer that way. Trust me

[WigWamBam]

Someone posted this recipe ages ago - it was lovely, but could have used far less Maltesers and biscuits for the amount of chocolate. I added some raisins and chopped glace cherries as well, and it was really nice.

MALTESER CHOCOLATE TIFFIN

This is based on a recipe from the Blacksmith's Coffee Shop, Belsay, north of Newcastle. Use the best chocolate you can get (minimum 60% cocoa solids for dark; minimum 30% for milk).

100g quality dark chocolate
300g quality milk chocolate
100g butter

3 tbsp golden syrup
275g digestive biscuits, crushed
250g Maltesers

Melt the dark chocolate, 100g of milk chocolate, the butter and syrup together and then stir in the digestives. Gently stir in the Maltesers and tip into a lined Swiss-roll tin (23 x 33 cm), levelling out.

Melt the remaining 200g of milk chocolate and pour over, smoothing the surface carefully. Once cold, cut into pieces.

[DumbledoresGirl]

greensleeves! Tiffin is otherwise known as Chocolate biscuit cake.

here is my recipe:

4oz butter/margarine
3oz golden syrup
1oz cocoa powder
2oz raisins
8oz mixed sweet biscuits (ie digestives0

grease a 6 inch shallow cake tin
Put butter, syrup, cocoa and raisins in a pan and heat gently until butter has melted.
Remove from heat and stir in crushed biscuits.
Press into greased tin and leave in a cool place to set.

You can then melt 4oz plain chocolate and spread over the top.

Cut into wedges when chocolate has set.

(You can also add glace cherries if you like!)

[Greensleeves]

So that's tiffin!

[MrsDoolittle]

That malteser recipe looks fab. It's not too sweet is it? I think that is the Waitrose secret, it's not too sweet.

I also bought some lavender chocolate, that's pretty gorgeous too

[WigWamBam]

I didn't find it too sweet. It probably would be if you used all milk chocolate, but with the dark it's lovely.

The first time we made it I found that there wasn't enough chocolate to coat it and top it properly so when I made it again I cut right down on the biscuit and maltesers and used extra chocolate (always a good move ). It really is lovely ... am drooling now ...