Posh chocolate fridge cake

I’ve been Christmas shopping since November and am sick of the whole thing. Enough is enough. Sometimes there is more joy to be had in keeping the wallet closed but making the effort to create something from scratch.

For the past four years or so I’ve been Chair of Dancefest, a brilliant organisation who put quality dance classes and projects out into towns and villages in Herefordshire and Worcestershire. It’s a misnomer that dancers don’t eat…every meeting I’ve ever been to has involved M&S chocolate biscuits. So instead of the obligatory office tin of Quality Street or Celebrations, this year the Dancefest-ers are getting home-made treats: posh chocolate fridge cake.

These can be rustled up with thirty minutes of kitchen pottering, are really simple and use stuff that I have in my cupboards all the time. I popped to Waitrose this morning and they are selling a Christmas fridge cake, pretty much the same as mine, for £10 a go! At that price, you’re far better off making your own. Plus this way it can be tarted up any way you like – popping candy? Glitter? Go for it.

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