No Bake Chocolate Biscuit Bars
Have you ever wondered what to do with leftover biscuits and chocolates in your pantry? Quite often when kids are around, we tend to stock up on chocolates and biscuits for their after school cravings or as a tiffin box snack. And quite often due to some reason they end up getting wasted because the biscuits go stale and no one wants to have them. Make these No Bake Chocolate Biscuit Bars to salvage them!
Ingredients
Brown Sugar – 4 tbsp
Unsalted butter – 1 tbsp
Salt – a pinch
Sweetened condensed milk – 200 g
Unsweetened cocoa powder – 3 tbsp
Chocolate chips/broken chocolate pieces – 1/2 cup
Walnuts (crushed coarsely) – 1/2 cup
Cashews (broken coarsely) – 1/2 cup
Marie/Lotus biscuits – 400 g
Yield
~16 square bars
Prep time
15 mins
Cook time
15 mins
Time to set
2 hrs
Method
1) Crush the nuts and biscuits coarsely.
2) Heat brown sugar (keep the heat low) in a thick bottomed pan. Keep stirring constantly to avoid charring. Let it melt and caramalise (check out my walnut cashew chikki recipe for tips to caramelise sugar).
3) Once the sugar caramelises, add butter, salt and mix. Then add the condensed milk, cocoa powder and chocolate chips/pieces to this caramelised sugar and mix thoroughly.
4) Grease and line a 20 cm square tray with baking/parchment paper and set aside.
5) To the condensed milk-cocoa powder mixture add the crushed nuts and biscuits. Mix once so that the dry ingredients are properly coated with the wet ingredients and lump together.
6) Remove the mixture from heat and transfer it to the greased/lined tray. Use a flat spatula to gently press down the mixture and even it out properly. Refrigerate this for a minimum of 2 hours.
7) Before serving, unmould the ‘no bake chocolate biscuit bars’ and cut it into squares. Serve chilled with a scoop of icecream.
Notes
- You can use any nuts and any kind of chocolate from white to dark to suit your taste.
- Be careful when adding butter to the caramelised sugar. It will splutter!
