My Mum's Chocolate Concrete Biscuits
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Introduction
a local ledgedary school pudding where i grew up was 'chocolate concrete and pink cement' - basically a very hard crunchy chocolate biscuit served warm with pink custard. This is my mums take on the recipe which i have recently rediscovered and am now addicted to making you can roll the dough to normal biscuit thickness and make as cut out cookies or leave it thicker and cook in a baking tray to be sliced up and served warm out of the oven
a local ledgedary school pudding where i grew up was 'chocolate concrete and pink cement' - basically a very hard crunchy chocolate biscuit served warm with pink custard. This is my mums take on the recipe which i have recently rediscovered and am now addicted to making you can roll the dough to normal biscuit thickness and make as cut out cookies or leave it thicker and cook in a baking tray to be sliced up and served warm out of the oven
Ingredients
Serves: 6-8
- 1 packet chocolate blancmange powder (other flavours could be used if you wanted)
- 225 grams plain flour (I'd reduce this by however much your blancmange powder weighs - mine is usually about 55g so I use only 170g flour)
- 140 grams butter
- 55 grams caster sugar
- 1 packet chocolate blancmange powder (other flavours could be used if you wanted)
- 7⅞ ounces all-purpose flour (I'd reduce this by however much your blancmange powder weighs - mine is usually about 55g so I use only 170g flour)
- 4⅞ ounces butter
- 1⅞ ounces superfine sugar
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Posted by jenny_lincoln1 on 3rd November 2019
Show more commentsI attended Fairfield Primary School, Radlett in Hertfordshire in the early 1960's. Chocolate crunch was a firm favourite, served with chocolate custard after fish and chips on a Friday. It was rock hard and would skip off the plate across the room if we weren't careful when we cut into it. This tasted the same but the surface was crumbly, almost dusty which makes it difficult to eat. I've scraped it off and stored it to use as a cheesecake base. Waste not, want not!