I love to cook, and I always try to make the time at the start of the week to prepare a home-made biscuit, cake or healthy treat to include in the boys lunch boxes. But, this week I really didn’t want ‘step 1′ of the recipe to be ‘cream the butter and sugar’. I was after a more melt and mix approach.
The Women’s Weekly “Chocolate Fudge Bars” was the perfect recipe. I’ve made these many, many times over the years and they are always a hit. Here’s the recipe:
Chocolate Fudge Bars
from AWW The Big Book of Beautiful Biscuits or online
½ cup sugar
1 cup coconut
1 tablespoon cocoa
185g butter
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 cup icing sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
30g butter
1½ tablespoons hot water
coconut
Press mixture over base of greased 28cm x 18cm lamington tin.
Bake in moderate oven 20 minutes. Cool in tin.
When cold, ice with Chocolate Icing, sprinkle with coconut. Cut into bars when icing has set.
Chocolate Icing:
Sift icing sugar and cocoa into small bowl, add melted butter and water, mix until the icing is smooth and glossy.
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Hi Lisa, thanks for sharing this recipe. I lost my copy of this favourite cook book when I put it in storage to go backpacking many years ago. I made it today for the first time in at least 20 years and I think I need more practice! It seemed to have way too much butter but I not only measured it on the side of the butter packet, I used scales too. Only thing I can think of was the oven was too hot (180). Will try again when I get the oven going for dinner.
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