Please can someone tell me the DEFINITIVE recipe for Chocolate Concrete?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

I remember it from 80's school lunches.

TIA

Do you mean a shit slab?

Do you mean Rocky Road type stuff, biscuit and melted chocolate type thing?

No it's kind of a chocolate shortbread, but more chewy after the initial hard crunch.

Nope we never called it that.

It is, it's a shit slab. The shortbready stuff was also brown and then a layer of cheap choc on the top. There is a recipe for it on facebook below) but I'm not sure australian crunchie is the same thing...can't remembe whether ours had cornflakes in the biscuit bit or not...

Ingredients
3oz Sugar
3oz Coconut
2oz Cornflakes
5oz Plain flour
2tbsp drinking chocolate
6oz Margarine
For the topping:
8oz Icing sugar
2tbsp Drinking chocolate or mint flavouring

Recipe
Melt the margarine in a saucepan. Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl (it's better if you slightly crush the cornflakes first), add
melted margarine and mix well. Grease a 7.5 inch square baking tin. Turn mixture into tin and press down firmly, bake in the centre of a pre-heated oven (Gas Mark 5, 190C) for 20-25 minutes. Leave to cool. Mix the icing sugar and drinking chocolate with a few drops of water to make a thick iced topping, when completely cold spread the topping evenly over the top and place in the fridge to set. When set cut into even squares.

I think this is the one I remember:

"This recipe for Chocolate Concrete was given to me years ago by the school dinner supervisor.

11oz butter
2 eggs
2oz cocoa powder
1 lb self raising flour
3/4 lb granulated sugar

this make 2 x12 by 7 inch trays you can half the recipe to make one but in my house you may as well make the two it goes that fast

pre heat oven. on gas mark 3

melt the butter, add the sugar and mix well
add the flour and the cocoa mix well until you have a stiff consistancy. beat the two eggs and gently mix them in until your consistancy softens.
devide the mixture into the trays and gently press into the corners and flatten into the tin (it will appear greasy and it is supposed to look like this,)
sprinkle with a little water and put in the very top of your oven. leave for 45 minutes check the top and if it feels hard take it out and put on a wire tray to cool as it cools it hardens the advice here is to cut it then leave to cool."

That sounds more like it! But then you have to put some cheap chocolate on the top.

There's a recipe for it here, I remember it as very hard chocolate shortbread stuff, - no wonder my teeth are wrecked

australian crunchie is deffo not the same thing, but its very good

mmm to choc concrete, will you be making pink custard?

we called it Tarmac

om nom nom

fabbo link Kurri

Heh.

googling the recipe today throws this thread up.

You'd've thought I'd have given it a try within years

**NINE years

@ChaosTrulyReigns haha this has made me smile today