Picnic recipe for 16 people, takes only 5 mins; recipe has butter, caster sugar, cocoa powder, egg, digestive biscuits, coconut, almonds, butter, double cream, custard powder, icing sugar, chocolate and butter.
Nanaimo bars
Course: Picnic
Servings
16
servings
Prep time
25 mins
Ingredients
- Egg: 1 egg, beaten
- Butter: 125g softened butter
- Almonds: 50g chopped almonds (optional)
- Caster Sugar: 50g caster sugar
- Cocoa Powder: 5 tbsp cocoa powder
- Double Cream: 4 tbsp double cream
- Coconut: 100g desiccated coconut
- Icing Sugar: 250g icing sugar
- Chocolate: 150g dark chocolate
- Custard Powder: 3 tbsp custard powder
- Digestive Biscuits: 200g digestive biscuits, blitzed to crumbs
Directions
- Start by making the biscuit base. In a bowl, over a pan of simmering water, melt the butter with the sugar and cocoa powder, stirring occasionally until smooth. Whisk in the egg for 2 to 3 mins until the mixture has thickened. Remove from heat and mix in the biscuit crumbs, coconut and almonds if using, then press into the base of a lined 20cm square tin. Chill for 10 mins.
- For the middle layer, make the custard icing;whisktogether the butter, cream and custard powder until light and fluffy, then gradually add the icing sugar until fully incorporated. Spread over the bottom layer and chill in the fridge for at least 10 mins until the custard is no longer soft.
- Melt the chocolate and butter together in the microwave, then spread over the chilled bars and put back in the fridge. Leave until the chocolate has fully set (about 2 hrs). Take the mixture out of the tin and slice into squares to serve.
