Chocolate Biscuit Plum Pudding

Ah Home Economics-one of the highlights of my week. At the moment we are working on Christmas cakes (woohoo!). We were given the option of either a traditional style fruit cake, or a chocolate biscuit cake. Needless to say the latter was the more popular option (although I hold no grudges against fruit cake). 

My lovely home ec partner and awesome friend Tara (total promo there!) and I decided to make a Chocolate Biscuit Plum Pudding, where it looks like the pudding but once you cut into it it's actually chocolate biscuit! Possibly the biggest plot twist since that unavoidable time we've all bitten into a cookie to find that the chocolate chips are actually raisins. (*violently shudders*) So if you wish to recreate and join us on our journey of chocolate biscuit/plum pudding cake making here's the recipe we followed (including an exclusive photoshoot performed by yours truly). We got the recipe from here if you want to see the original.


Equipment:

• Spoon
• Pudding Bowl
• Rolling Pin
• Sharp Knife
• Holly cutters (optional)
• Small paintbrush

Ingredients:

• 375g biscuits
• 225g milk chocolate
• 225g dark chocolate
• 150g butter
• 225g golden syrup
• 100g marshmallows/raisins/malteasers/your choice. (we used malteasers)

Decoration Ingredients:

• Ready to roll white icing (250g)
• Ready to roll icing in green and red for details on top
• Icing sugar/cornflour to dust
• Water (or edible glue if you have it)

Method:

• Grease the pudding bowl well with butter (or line with cling film)
• Break half the biscuits into small pieces 

• Make the other half into fine crumbs by putting them in a bag and bashing them with a rolling pin. 

• Melt the chocolate, butter and golden syrup together

• Keep mixing and melting until your mixture looks like this
  
• Put all the dry ingredients (i.e all of your biscuits and your malteasers) in a bowl together.
  
• Pour the melted chocolate mixture into this dry mix. (I have no photo of this as it required both Tara and I to hold the bowl and pour and mix the two together. 
• Put your chocolate biscuit mix into your pudding bowl. 
  
  
  
• Refrigerate your cake.

We only have Home Ec once a week so on Thursday we will begin the icing process. Your chocolate biscuit should last for up to two weeks when refrigerated (if it's not eaten by then!). Stay tuned for part two: icing!