Make this Chocolate Refrigerator cake any old time. It can be made gluten free by replacing the biscuits with gluten free ones.
Chocolate Refrigerator Cake
This makes a great Easter treat and reminds me of holidays by the beach as a teenager.
I was locked in the annex to the caravan.
Really? Did he think that could stop me escaping? Well, in my opinion, he certainly would have to try harder. And that’s what I was thinking as I uprooted a tent peg and pushed under the canvas side of the enclosure. Nothing was going to stop me going back to the beach and hanging out with the surfers.
Every Easter we went to a caravan park in Kiama. It rained every year and each year I grew older and more interested in life outside the caravan. Life that excluded my controlling parents, my sisters (who were too scared to escape) and board games on the caravan table. I was 14, didn’t they get it?
I traversed the space between caravans and tents down to the beach to sit with the other girls waiting for the boys to come in from the water. They were shocked to see me because the night before my Father had pushed his way through the crowds of partying youth on a mission to find me. After several threats, heavy handling and scattering intoxicated revellers he found me pressed up against a surfer kissing him with my newly acquired technique.
I was suddenly grabbed from behind and dragged back to our caravan, and my wide eyed siblings, who had claimed I was in the shower block. I was embarrassed but mostly I was angry. I thought I was old enough to make my own decisions.
So, it was that the bikini clad girls on the beach were interested in just how I had survived that angry encounter. Here I was back on the beach, defiantly telling the tale of parental hate and mistreatment. I was the girl who got dragged from the beach by her hair by her Father no less. Today, I was grounded of course, but I could always say I was going to the toilet block, if I got caught. I had no knowledge of my Father following this time, and he didn’t intervene, he just mentioned seeing me on the beach with the others later on. I also considered spying to be a parental crime, and wondered if he had seen me on my belly crawling under the annex of the tent.
There would be no more trouble for me any way that Easter, as none of the Surfers were brave enough to approach me.
My grand mother stayed in a caravan close to ours and made this simple treat at Easter. I have fancied it up in appearance but it is still the same old easy recipe. Chocolate refrigerator Cake is easy. It’s an anytime cake really.
Chocolate Refrigerator Cake
Ingredients
- 250 gm biscuits including shortbread Tim tams or even Oreos or a mixture.
- 100 gm butter unsalted
- 250 ml cream heavy or thickened
- 60 gm golden syrup or honey
- 450 gm chocolate dark 50- 70%
- vanilla
Icing
- 100 gm chocolate chopped, dark or a mixture
- 100 ml heavy or thickened cream
- 1 packet Easter chocolates Eggs and/ or bunnies or anything for decorating.
Instructions
- Line a 8 in / 20 cm cake tin with a removable bottom and have it ready. The secret to this is using a cake tin. Line it with paper.
- Break up the biscuits into large chunks, set aside
- Put the cream, butter, golden syrup and vanilla into a bowl over a double boiler or into the microwave till warm and just melted. Add the chopped chocolate off the heat and stir till melted and smooth.
- Add the biscuits to the chocolate when it has cooled a bit (especially if you are using Tim Tams). Mix gently combining the biscuits. All the biscuits should get coated by the time it is pushed into the mold . (I also added a few of the coloured shelled eggs or candies).
- Pour into the cake tin and push down flat, picking up and tapping on the bench lightly to push all the mixture to the bottom.
- Cover with plastic wrap and chill till firm. (over night is best but up to 3 hours.The freezer will speed this up)
- Warm the cream in a pot or microwave till hot, but NOT boiling. Add the chopped chocolate and stir till smooth.
- Unwrap the refrigerator cake and turn up side down onto a plate. The base will be easier to ice as it will be flatter. Pour over the ganache and spread with a spatula then chill for a few minutes before decorating with eggs and bunnies ( mine are Malteezer bunnies)
- Serves up to 10 because only small pieces are eaten
Notes
Make sure your chocolate doesn't conytain barley for those that are gluten free. Lindt chocolate commonly contains barley
What a lovely recipe! It looks very delicious, must prepare this for the following holidays!
This cake looks so delicious, and fun to make! And Easter is coming round again 🙂
Yes Easter is in the shops already. Time to plan!
Love the idea that this cake is so easy to make and can be made in holiday homes when there is no oven! yum
That is one gorgeous cake.
You sound like quite the rebel. I wouldn’t have dared defy my mother. She ruled us 3 teenage daughters with a mind of steel. Perhaps she had to. Anyway, I am glad you got to enjoy the holiday even if the boys stayed away.
“Your friend, is she married?” 🙂
I’m not going to say anything more. 🙂
Lovely cake. I just popped across and voted for you in the best blog comp too. Cheers
Those beach boys would have been crazy to approach you after seeing your Father drag you away — and don’t think he didn’t know that. He may have grabbed you but he was communicating directly with them. “If you think this is bad, just touch my daughter … ”
This is a great refrigerator cake, Tania. So easy to make and, with all that chocolate, it’s my dream come true! 🙂
You heart breaker you! What a rebel you were Tania, I doubt you’ve changed much over the years 🙂
Lovely recipe, so nice and easy too. This might even make gluten free knock-off Tim tams taste good xox
The cake is so pretty and yes, so perfect for Easter. I love how you decorated it. I have a similar story of but it wasn’t at Easter, it was on NYE. And I was 16, not 14. My sister, Em and I (she was 15) were at a NYE party at Palm Beach, in a house with a bunch of boys we’d known for years. Somehow my father found out and drove all the way from Killara to drag us back home. I was mortified and so embarrassed. I didn’t speak to him until later the next day when I was forced to because our house was on fire and burning to the ground – another day, another story! xx
This is such a great cake idea! I’ve made slices like this, but never thought to shape a cake and your version looks gorgeous.
I am impressed at your teenage daring too. I never got up to anything as exciting!
The cake looks delicious, I’ll be filing this recipe away for future reference. Happy Easter.
How hilarious 🙂 You were a feisty girl!! The cake looks marvelous. 🙂
You sneaky thing! You and my daughter – both naughty at 14! I don’t think I slept from the time she was 13 1/2 til 19 ! 🙂
What a happy cake, Tania!
What a rich and delicious cake! And perfect for those times when you don’t want to switch the oven on 🙂
Your teenage story was very engaging and reminded me of my beach years in the tent and some of teh misadventures I got up to. Thanks for the memory.
This is a masterpiece, Tania. Love how you decorate the cake…simple yet festive and beautiful.