Chocolate Week: 11-17 October - a recipe

Chocolate biscuit bars

With chocolate, brazil nuts and fruit, these bars are irresistible.

Ingredients

• 8oz/200g Traidcraft brazil nut cookies
• 4oz/100g margarine
• 4oz/100g Traidcraft raisins and sultanas
• 1oz/25g Traidcraft muscovado sugar
• 2oz/50g syrup
• 1oz/25g Traidcraft cocoa powder
• 4oz/100g Traidcraft chocolate for covering

Method

1. Crush the biscuits.
2. Melt the margarine in a pan, then mix in the syrup, sugar and cocoa powder.
3. Take the pan off the heat and add biscuits and dried fruit.
4. Press the mixture into an 8" (20cm) sandwich tin or baking tray.
5. Break the chocolate into a basin. Stand a small basin in a large one filled with some hot water to melt it.
6. Spread the chocolate over the biscuit mixture.
7. Put in fridge to cool.
8. Cut into slices.

(Recipe is one of several available at the Traidcraft website).