HELP!!

[kickassangel]

ok, so i was planning to make chocolate refrigerator cake, but got distracted as i was melting the chocolate.

it started going that hard lumpy way. so, i stirred in some butter & heated evap. milk. now it is too runny & won't set.

what are my options, i am thinking

1. stir in LOADS of icing sugar & hope it turns into fudge?
2. heat it, then hope it sets?
3. use it as choc sauce, and make something like profiteroles with it?
4. freeze it & worry about it later?
5. bin it, start again.

btw, i need a dessert to take to wine club tomorrow night, so i have to do something & i'm out all day tomorrow.

don't bin it, eat it now and start agin tomorrow

What is your recipe?!

How I make it is by:

1. bashing up digestives (400g)
2. melting 200g butter, 4tsp sugar, 2tbsp honey and 8tsp drinking chocolate together in a pan
3. mixing in bashed up biscuits and putting in a tin then cooling
4. melting 200g chocolate to put on top and leaving it to cool - marking into slices before it's properly set

If you could do the first 3 steps tonight, you'll be able to buy more choc tomorrow and hopefully it will set before you have to go out.

it is a BIG bowl full, an entire mixing bowl full. i don't think eating it all is possible.

then again ...

i don't have a 'recipe', except i just kind of melt some chocolate & butter, mix in some golden syrup & then lob in whatever leftovers i have that will 'go'

i have also just discovered that 'animal crackers' taste vile when mixed in with chocolate. it was going to be a goo way to use them up.

Hmm, do you see where you might be going wrong yet?

(whispers - use the recipe!)

I know but usually i make it no probs, but dd wanted my urgent attention as i was melting the chocolate, then it started going wrong, friends were due round any moment & I PANICKED.

so, am i being over-optimistic to think if i boil it up, it will somehow set into fudge?

i'm not a fudging expert.

Bin it and follow my fail-safe recipe:

250g digestives, bashed, add 75g raisins and 75g cherries (the dark ones, not the horrid bright red ones). Melt 100g butter, 25g sugar, 3tbs cocoa and 4 tbs syrup. Whack them together, press into tin.

Melted choc on top for the full experience.

arses, you're all right, i know you are, but now i have to go out & buy more ingredients, or get a ready made dessert.

i WILL however, find something that i can put into a ramekin dish!!

Meh, I never bin anything until I've had a bloody good experiment.

(Hence my aiolli which didn't emulsify last week was firstly boiled on the hob, and then had lashings of cornflour and was THEN thrown in the bin)

I'd probably throw in the icing sugar and some marshmallows and chocolate chips, just to see what happened.

oh, and i can't get digestives. having jsut tried, neither animal crackers OR graham crackers really substitute well.

again, i say, arses. (as in general expression of discontent, not directed at anybody)

shirley, you're my kind of cook

Go for it...what's the worse that can happen.

Can't get digestives?! Where the heck are you?

My recipe book suggests rich tea biscuits, but frankly I'm sceptical.

I'm in the US - i can only get chocolate covered digestives at an exorbitant amount.
no rich tea at all

unless i go to a specialist shop - this was meant to be a quick and easy dessert!

Don't make fudge. I feel sick now.

You could set it with gelatine into a chocolate parfait. Or freeze it and then slice it- frozen chocolate parfait. Or melt more chocolate into it so it sets.

I personally would just eat it and start again though.

i have heated it, put some into a pot & am cooling it. then i will think about it some more, after i have been on mumsnet cooked dinner.

i really, really couldn't eat it all!

Ah. I wonder what they use in the US then...?

Sounds like a situation where I would go to M&S and buy something, but I don't recall ever seeing one in the US either.

What happened?

Wake up kissassangel! We need to know what happened.

I also need to know how Americans make cheesecakes without using digestive biscuits.

Aren't they called graham crackers in the US?

ok - having cooled it, i realised it closely resembled the choc sauce for profiteroles, so to dh's delight, i made a batch last night & we ate one each (just to test them, of course), and that worked fine.

yes, for cheesecake, we use graham crackers, but they are not the same as digestives. i now have a longing for digestives.

fyi, we ate the sample profiterole out of a ramekin dish each (btw, tis before 8 am here, are you impressed with my dedication to mn?)

Wow kickass, very impressed at your kitchen prowess.

Hope the recipients enjoy your profiteroles!