Chocolate Refrigerator Cake
This is a regular make in this household and something that I make when I am having a touch of the blues. Funny how sweet stuff puts a different perspective on things. Its also a good prepared in advance to bring out a Christmas. You can of course add what ever takes your fancy like dried mango crystallised pineapple coconut, cranberries the choice is yours. Ingredients: 350g/12 oz good quality Cooking Chocolate dark or plain the choice is yours - not cake covering which is of an inferior quality for this cake 4 tablespoons strong black coffee 4 tablespoon brandy 8 oz digestive biscuits, graham crackers or a good plain biscuit can be used broken 90g/3 oz/ 3/4 cup toasted slivered flaked almonds 90g/3 oz/1/3 cup glace (candied) cherries 300ml/1/2 pint cups of double (heavy) cream There is no cooking as such with this recipe which is why in one sense I like it can easily be rustled up even on a week night Grease an 18 cm/7 inch round loose bottomed cake tin/pan it can be sq...