{"id":1296,"date":"2008-09-13T16:54:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T06:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2008-09-13T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T06:54:51","slug":"recipe-chocolate-crunch-slice-hedgehog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Recipe &#8211; Chocolate Crunch Slice (Hedgehog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a chocolate party to go to? This is a quick and easy &#8211; and delicious &#8211; chocaholic\u2019s delight!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1295\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/choccrunch.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate crunch slice\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong>:<br \/>\n2 bars of dark cooking chocolate (400g)<br \/>\n2 tablespoons butter or margarine (50g)<br \/>\n1 teaspoon of instant coffee<br \/>\n1 egg (optional)<br \/>\nhalf a packet of milk arrowroot or other plain biscuits<br \/>\n2 tablespoons mixed peel<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong>:<br \/>\nHalf fill a large pan with water, bring to boil. In a second (and smaller) pot put in the chocolate and margarine and put that pot in the larger one so it works as a \u2018double boiler\u2019. Chop the chocolate into small chunks and place in the smaller saucepan, and add the butter. As it melts, keep stirring gently until smooth and creamy.<br \/>\nBoil a kettle and use just enough hot water to dissolve the instant coffee (about a teaspoon) and pour the coffee into the melted chocolate and stir in well.<br \/>\nTake a bowl and break the biscuits into pea-sized chunks.<br \/>\nTake the chocolate mix off the heat and allow to cool for about ten minutes. Stir in the egg (optional).<br \/>\nNow add the biscuit pieces and the mixed peel and stir until well covered in chocolate.<br \/>\nPour the mix into a bar-tin lined with baking (greaseproof) paper or aluminium foil<br \/>\nRefrigerate until set &#8211; about 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Turn out the bar onto a board upside down, making sure the paper is completely removed, dust with icing sugar and slice thinly to serve.<\/p>\n<p>This has been adapted from the recipe of a family friend called Makiko \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Variations can include half a cup of mixed dried fruit, or nuts substituted for an equivalent amount of the biscuits.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>cheers<br \/>\nJerry <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a chocolate party to go to? This is a quick and easy &#8211; and delicious &#8211; chocaholic\u2019s delight! Ingredients: 2 bars of dark cooking chocolate (400g) 2 tablespoons butter or margarine (50g) 1 teaspoon of instant coffee 1 egg (optional) half a packet of milk arrowroot or other plain biscuits 2 tablespoons mixed peel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}