When it comes to cooking with children you cannot avoid making all sorts of sweets, like this chocolate tiffin. Although sweet things seem like a waste of your time in the kitchen, they are a good starting point to your cooking adventure with children. Your children are more likely to try them and through sweet recipes it will be easier to make a transitions to savour ones.
The ingredients below make a generous chocolate tiffin block which will probably last you 5-6 days.
Start simple with your chocolate tiffin
To make the following chocolate tiffin I got inspired by this recipe here and of course made it into a 5-element one for better flavour. Feel free to skip some of the spices if they seem overwhelming for you and your child, especially if you are only starting your cooking journey. Or, if your child likes some additions like raisins, cranberries, walnuts, hazelnuts or dried coconut, add 2-3 tablespoons to the chocolate mixture.
Preparation
In a large mixing bowl add 250g plain biscuits and crush them with a wooden pounder. Set them aside.
The chocolate mix
Use a heavy-based cooking pan, add the following ingredients and melt them on medium-low heat:
- Sweet 200g unsalted butter, 1 tin (397g) condensed milk,
- Pungent 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger (optional),
- Salty a generous pinch of sea salt (optional),
- Sour 1 teaspoon of lemon juice (optional),
- Bitter 3 tablespoons of cocoa.
Stir well until all the ingredients combine.
Pour the melted ingredients into the biscuit bowl and stir until all the biscuits are coated evenly with the liquid mixture.
Into the baking tin
Line a baking tin with baking greaseproof paper. It does not really matter what size your baking tin is. If it is large your tiffing will be a bit thinner. If, like me, you only have a small one, your tiffin pieces will be thicker. Pour the mixture in. Flatten down with the back of a spooning necessary.
Into the fridge
Put it in the fridge to set for at least 4 hours. I refrigerated mine overnight until it was properly set and easy to cut. Once it’s set, cut it into squares or rectangles.
For other sweet recipes check out my yoghurt doughnuts or apple pie jam.
