Chocolate fridge cake with pecan and meringues

This was my latest attempt for my mum on mother's day:


chocolate fridge cake!
serves 16

INGREDIENTS

200g digestive biscuits
110g whole pecans, roughly chopped (i used almond nuts as substitute)
110g pistachio nuts, peeled (i bought ready-peeled ones from phoon huat)
10 glace cherries (you can use different colour cherries to make it look more colourful, or even put raisins instead.)
2 ready-made meringue nests, smashed up ( i actually used meringue shell instead, available at cold storage)
150g unsalted butter
1 tablespoon golden syrup
200g dark chocolate


1) Break the biscuits into small pieces directly into a large bowl. Add the pecans, pistachio nuts and cherries and mix together. (although the ingredients didnt state to peel the cherries into small bits, i decided to do that so that it would be more evenly spreaded)

2) Put the rest of the ingredients into a separate, heatproof bowl and put on a low heat over a pan of simmering water until the butter and chocolate have melted. (because i used meringue shell, i had to pound the shell into fine bits first before adding to the mixture)

3) Combine the biscuit mix with the chocolate mixture.

4) Line a 30 x 20 cm plastic container with clingfilm, leaving plenty of extra film at the edges to help turn the cake out later. (alternatively, if you have those non-stick oven paper, just place it over your oven dish and pour the mixture over)
5) Whack everything into the container, place in the fridge to firm up then turn out and cut into chunky slices.


this is a very expensive cake (approximately $40) for someone collecting an allowance of mine, simply because of the pistachio and the various nuts. personally, i felt there was an overload of nuts so maybe you could cut down on the nuts if you are not an exact fan of nuts. but i must say, its very easy and no oven is required at all!

courtesy of jamie oliver again :)

till then, everyone :]