Polish Cake Recipe

This is neither polish nor cake.... So I have no idea why it has the name it does but what I do know is that it is incredibly tasty!

This is my grandma's recipe and she got it from her mother, my nana, and where she got it from, who knows! It's been in our family for a long long long time and since today is my birthday, 23 years on the planet, I wanted to share it with you.


You will need:

1 Medium sized pan
1 small pan (or a bowl depending on your preferred method of melting chocolate)
A mixing spoon
A baking tray
Tin Foil

Ingredients:

225g (that's roughly 8oz) digestive biscuits
100g margerine
1tbsp golden syrup
2 tbsp Cadbury's drinking chocolate
2 large bars of Dairy Milk chocolate

First you need to bash up all of your biscuits, the preferred Railton method is to put them in a food bag and bash with a rolling pin - That's really fun so if you have a young child or a younger sibling, they might want to help with this bit - Alternatively, if you're fancy, stick the biscuits in a food processor and whiz them around until they are crumbs.

Stand the biscuit crumbs to one side for a second.

Next put your margarine and golden syrup into your medium pan and melt them together over a low heat. Make sure to keep stiring as you are melting.

Once they have melted together add the drinking chocolate, you can do this over the heat or not it's up to you, and mix that in.

Now add your biscuit crumbs and mix it all together!!

You now need to line your baking tray with tin foil and once you have done that put your biscuity mixture onto it and spread it out evenly, you want quite a thick base so don't spread it out too thin.

I will be honest my mixture didn't cover the whole tray, there was a tiny bit of space left so I just made the mixture again, it only takes two minutes. Depending on the size of your baking tray you may want to double the ingredients.

Now pop the tray in the fridge and leave to cool. Once it's cool take it out.

You now need to melt the chocolate. When I did it in the pan it burnt so I resorted to the microwave.

Once it's melted pour over your biscuit base and spread it evenly across.

Put the tray back in the fridge.

After about 30-45 mins the chocolate will be sort of set, take the tray back out of the fridge and cut it into squares. If you leave it too late the chocolate will have set completely and cutting it into squares will be a nightmare.



Put back in the fridge until the chocolate has fully set, then sit back and relax with a good cup of tea!