Rainy Saturday, Cooking Time!

 Terrible weather and forecast today so headed to the kitchen. Memories of Saucepan cake from my youth inspired me, So went down the hardcore Chocolate route. Although this is called a fridge cake it's pretty much melt chocolate and butter and pour it over broken biscuits!!

Don't feel I can go far wrong with this set of ingredients, everything Organic except the Golden Syrup and I sneaked a few hob-nobs in, because of the addiction! 

 So basically break up the biscuits, chop up the hazelnuts and the glace cherries (allow an extra 6 cherries for compulsive eating during this phase of the operation!😃) and bung them in a bowl with the sultanas

Digestives and a couple of nobs broken up

Chopped up Hazelnuts and Glace Cherries pretty sure these count as one of my 5 a day

Hardest part of this recipe is lining the tin with clingfilm, bloody stuff has a mind of it's own but I wrestled it in eventually😀😖

Successful Clingfilm application!!

In a bowl over water melt the Chocolate and Butter ,I used two bars of Green & Blacks cooking chocolate, one plain and one milk and then a small bar of their normal Dark Chocolate.

Cue gratuitous pics of melting chocolate

Take off the heat and whisk in the Golden Syrup and Cream. I enlisted Margie to do the whisking part while I drizzled in the liquids!

Margie doing the whisking, guess who got blamed for the mess!!😮

Pour over the biscuit mix

Pour it into the prepared tin!!

Now put into the fridge for a minimum 4 hours!! 4 fricking hours!  nooooooooo!!!!!!!!

So whilst I'm waiting I decided to make a Quiche for tea, first to make the pastry, cheese shortcrust pastry!! I find a decent recipe on tinternet and I get to use my plastic blade on my new food processor whoop whoop!! However it turns out the processor isn't as big as I thought and I failed to read the small print of the recipe which suggested this was a batch recipe ,I thought a whole pack of butter was excessive for a Quiche!!

Think this may be a bit overfull!!

Rescued it in the bowl slight mess in the transfer

Ready to roll, the other half is in the freezer!

So rolled it out, I'm not that great at pastry to be honest and after the Lemon Tart incident, I'm even more nervous but it goes into the tin ok and a bit of patching sees it sorted.

Looking ok

So the main problem I have is not enough baking beads which I forgot to rectify after the "incident" so had to improvise, but it came out alright in the end.

looking alright and ready for the filling!

For the filling, going Green Pepper and Mushroom due to the fact that's what I have in the fridge!!! Cheese of course a mixture of Cheddar and Parmesan!

Here Comes the Cheese!!

Green Peppers frying off

Eggs 

Mushrooms fried off got to do them quite a while otherwise get moisture in the quiche

Cheese Mountain

Ready for the Egg and Cream mix

Egg and Cream mix

Of course in the heat of getting it in the oven without spilling any I forgot to take a pic of the completed dish!! 😂Bit of Black Pepper and a sprinkling of Cayenne and it's cooking away %100 Organic apparently you can't put hob-Nobs in a savoury Quiche!! In some people's opinion😁!

Bit rustic out of the oven

Tarted it up a bit

Looking Good

So how did it taste pretty good!! Although it was just on the brink of cooked!! Though the knife came out clean probably needed an extra 5 minutes, still tasted cheesy and the mushrooms were tasty!!

So Pudding time after a lot more than 4 hours, such self-control!!!💥

The clingfilm worked a treat came out easy!!

Modest slice for Margie

Definitely one for the chocoholics!!! Think if I do it again will up the biscuit to chocolate ratio, but as I'm a confirmed Chocoholic I will probably manage to eat it over the next few days/weeks!!