Baking

Cherry & Ginger Bake

Ingredients

  • 50 gr. (2 oz.) cherries
  • 50 gr. (2 oz.) preserved ginger
  • 175 gr. (6 oz.) dates
  • 110 gr. (4 oz.) butter/margarine
  • ½ cup of sugar*
  • 3 cups rice krispies*
  • 225 gr. (8 oz.) Bourneville (dark) chocolate
  • * 1 cup = 10 fl. oz./275 ml.
  • Line a 20 cm. (8") square tin with foil so that you can lift out the slab when set.

Method

1

Cut the cherries, ginger and dates into small pieces. Put the butter/margarine and sugar into a pan and heat until melted.

2

Add the cherries, ginger and dates and stir round. Take off the heat.

3

Add the rice krispies and press into the foil-lined tin. When cold, cover with melted chocolate.

4

After the chocolate has set, lift it out of the tin, peel off the foil and cut into squares with a warm knife.