December 25, 2009: Frozen Chocolate Crunch

Christmas day, I didn't become searching for something novel in addition to exciting from 1 of my favourite cookbooks or blogs every bit I unremarkably do. Instead I wanted to restore a theatre unit of measurement summertime tradition that faded a decade ago. My dad's in addition to my birthdays autumn alone a hateful solar daytime apart, in addition to for many years nosotros took it inwards turns to asking Frozen Chocolate Crunch every bit our birthday cake. It doesn't await whatever to a greater extent than exceptional than but layers of vanilla in addition to chocolate icecream amongst a few biscuit crumbs, but there's but something close it. It could endure the role of existent chocolate, the whipped egg whites, or the java liqueur inwards the chocolate layer, or it could but endure the numerous parties in addition to holidays that I associate this dessert with.

My tastes convey shifted in addition to expanded since I final ate frozen chocolate crunch, but to my surprise in addition to please I enjoyed it but every bit much this twelvemonth every bit I always have. The 1 I made differed a niggling from the master copy recipe that I'll reach below. For starters, I halved the recipe because Mum noted that she unremarkably reduced it past times a 3rd in addition to my memories were of a real large cake. The topping is typically a mix of toasted biscuit crumbs in addition to slivered almonds (except for the fourth dimension that Mum used Dad's favourite sweet, Smarties, for his 40th birthday) but I omitted the almonds for my nut-averse brother. I works life that I didn't convey plenty chocolate mixture to brand function past times in addition to bottom layers, but this was plenty rich amongst the unmarried chocolate base of operations layer. What's more, at that spot was plenty to portion but about twice on Christmas hateful solar daytime amongst Mum, Carol in addition to Liam, in addition to however buy the farm on aside 3 generous slices for Dad, Liam in addition to I a couplet of days later.

Frozen chocolate crunch
(as copied past times my mum, from recipe bill of fare to email)

125g kokosnoot biscuits
125g slivered almonds
155g marg
1 loving cup icing sugar
3 eggs, separated
1 teasp vanilla
2 tblsp java liqueur
250g black cooking choc
2 litres vanilla icecream

Crush biscuits coarsely, combine amongst slivered almonds. Spread on oven tray, rut inwards deadening oven until crisp in addition to golden. Cream butter in addition to sugar, add together egg yolks, vanilla in addition to java liqueur, crunch until fluffy. Melt choc inwards double saucepan. Cool, hence add together to butter mixture. Fold inwards firmly beaten egg whites.

Press one-half biscuit mixture inwards base of operations of foil-lined cake tin. Pour one-half choc mixture on top, press downwards hence nuts are held inwards mixture. Spoon ice-cream over choc, function past times amongst remaining choc, hence biscuit mixture, pressing nuts into choc. Freeze overnight.