Navvies Slice |
Ingredients:300g cooking chocolate - either plain, milk, orange or white as preferred
125g soft margarine
250g granulated sugar
250g porridge oats
2 eggs
125g glacé cherries, halved (or chopped mixed glacé fruits or chopped dried apricots if preferred)
Method:
Melt chocolate in a bowl over a pan of boiling water or in a microwave oven, and pour onto a baking tray lined with baking parchment. Leave to set until quite hard. Meanwhile, cream margarine and sugar together, then add eggs, oats (or coconut), and cherries (or glace fruits / apricots). Mix together well then spread over the set chocolate base.
Baking:
Bake in oven on gas 4/350°f/180°c for about ½ hour until golden. Remove from oven. Leave in tin until absolutely cold so the chocolate sets hard again, then cut into pieces.
Makes 18-20 pieces
125g soft margarine
250g granulated sugar
250g porridge oats
2 eggs
125g glacé cherries, halved (or chopped mixed glacé fruits or chopped dried apricots if preferred)
Method:
Melt chocolate in a bowl over a pan of boiling water or in a microwave oven, and pour onto a baking tray lined with baking parchment. Leave to set until quite hard. Meanwhile, cream margarine and sugar together, then add eggs, oats (or coconut), and cherries (or glace fruits / apricots). Mix together well then spread over the set chocolate base.
Baking:
Bake in oven on gas 4/350°f/180°c for about ½ hour until golden. Remove from oven. Leave in tin until absolutely cold so the chocolate sets hard again, then cut into pieces.
Makes 18-20 pieces