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Tiffin
« on: June 09, 2010, 06:40:14 PM »
I bought some tiffin the other day and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it when my British coworkers would bring it to a cake sale!

Does anyone have a great recipe they'd like to share??


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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2010, 06:40:56 PM »
I think MLG might!  I agree it's yummy - now who wants to make some & send it to me?!  :)
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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2010, 06:51:41 PM »
I just bash up some digestives, drop in some dried fruit bits, sometimes add booze if I'm feeling that way inclined, and there you go. You don't need a recipe!  ;D
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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2010, 07:02:23 PM »
But doesn't it have some sort of chocolate binding agent??


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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2010, 07:14:34 PM »
Definitely!
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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2010, 07:35:38 PM »
LOL! I thought the melted chocolate went without saying! You melt chocolate, then bung in all the other stuff.
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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2010, 07:40:18 PM »
I think MLG might!  I agree it's yummy - now who wants to make some & send it to me?!  :)

How'd you know?  ;)

Mr MLG complained I never make it anymore!  :P

Here is the original recipe I have, courtesy of another Canadian in Britain (thank you, wherever you may be now:  :-*):

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Tiffin Cake

1/2 cup (1 stick) hard margarine or butter. Don’t use marg. from a tub as it’s too soft and cake won’t set properly.

200 gram (1 large) bar good-quality dark chocolate (60% cocoa solids or above). If you have some milk chocolate to use up, like Easter eggs, you can use half dark and half milk, but all dark is better.

1 generous tablespoon golden syrup, or light corn syrup if you can’t find golden syrup.

2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa (nice but optional)

approx. 8 oz, or 250 grams (or half a large packet) of digestive biscuits (Rich Tea biscuits or Hobnobs will work as well). I also heard that the equivalent weight in Maltesers malted milk balls is incredibly good as well, but I haven’t tried that variation yet.

up to 1 1/2 cups of a combination of the following: toasted chopped nuts, raisins, coconut, dried sour cherries or cranberries, whatever you have in your baking cupboard.
Method:

Melt the butter and syrup in a large, heavy saucepan, stirring carefully. Add the chocolate and melt. Remove from heat. Crush the biscuits into large crumbs. You want a few large-ish chunks but not too many or else the cake will just crumble when cut. Mix the crumbs into the chocolate along with other ingredients. Spread the mixture into a lightly buttered 8 inch square cake tin. Score into bars, then refrigerate ‘til firm. Serve in TINY slices—this is very rich but very, very good!

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My MLG version is Chocolate Ginger Tiffin Cake: crushed ginger nuts and walnuts / pecans (both, one or the other - whatever we have), 2/3 dark & 1/3 milk chocolate mix and butter. Simple is most effective and trial and error on the quantities always tends to turn out tasty, IME. I can't give quantity amounts, but started from the quantity amounts suggested in the above recipe!

Bon appetit!  ;D
 


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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2010, 07:41:30 PM »
Booze! It needs booze! Add a bit of brandy to it!
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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2010, 07:43:39 PM »
Serve in TINY slices—this is very rich but very, very good!

Tiny slices like your Nanaimo bars, right?  Yum to the coconut, nuts, dried cherries/cranberries - I was thinking stuff like that.

I'm thinking this is next up, J, now that we're done with Nanaimos, for now?  :D
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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2010, 07:46:39 PM »
Tiny slices like your Nanaimo bars, right?  Yum to the coconut, nuts, dried cherries/cranberries - I was thinking stuff like that.

Blame Mr MLG - he is the 'slicer and dicer' and likes 'm large. 

I'm thinking this is next up, J, now that we're done with Nanaimos, for now?  :D

I think that's exactly what Mr MLG was sayin'. Great minds think alike!  ;D :-*


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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2010, 07:48:14 PM »
Yay!
Ring the bells that still can ring
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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2010, 07:48:35 PM »
YUM!!! Thanks so much!!!


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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2010, 08:31:18 PM »
My co-worker does this, but she adds marshmallows.  It's fantastic! 
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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2010, 08:34:54 PM »
My co-worker does this, but she adds marshmallows.  It's fantastic! 

Now, the addition of marshmallows would seem to make it 'Rocky Road'. But, I could be mistaken!  ;D


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Re: Tiffin
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2010, 08:36:44 PM »
Now, the addition of marshmallows would seem to make it 'Rocky Road'. But, I could be mistaken!  ;D

No nuts; just biscuits (she uses wafers), cherries, marshmallows, and chocolate.  Nom nom. 
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