Chocolate Biscuit Cake
 
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I made ​​biscuits cake because it seems the easiest to do! This time I made ​​it with chocolate cream because the other one was with vanilla and I garnish it with nuts and coconut. You can top it with what you like more, this is what I had in the pantry :-). It's great!
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Recipe type: Desert
Cuisine: Romanian
Serves: 10
Ingredients
  • plain biscuits (petit beurre) 4-5 packages
  • 200 ml milk
  • Cream:
  • 200 g sugar
  • 500 ml milk
  • 4 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 150 g dark chocolate (or milk chocolate)
  • 200 g butter or margarine
  • rum
  • Garnish:
  • Coconut
  • ground nuts
Instructions
  1. Cream:
  2. Put 300 ml milk and sugar in a saucepan over low heat (if you have a pan with double bottom cos it does not stick the cream)
  3. In a bowl mix the remaining milk with 4 tablespoons of starch, mixing well with a whisk to dissolve better the starch.
  4. When the milk is hot, mix it with the one with starch and continue boiling the cream,stiring constantly with the whisk, until thickened like a pudding.
  5. Remove from the heat and then melt chocolate in the microwave, about 2 minutes (check it every 30 seconds), then incorporate it into the cream and blend it well. At the end, add 1 teaspoon rum (optional).
  6. Let the cream to cool (finger temperature), then mix the soft butter with electric mixer and gradually incorporate it in cream, then you can assemble the cake.
  7. In a bowl put milk (200 ml) to dip the cookies.
  8. Prepare a dish (rectangular or square, or even a tray) and place one layer of biscuits soaked in milk (I'm soaked 2-3 seconds).
  9. Put a layer of biscuits, then cream (3-4 tablespoons each layer) and continue so until cream finish. I had the last layer of cream (4 layers of biscuits and 4 of cream ).
  10. Level the surface then ornate it with coconut and nuts on the side.
  11. Super fast and incredibly tasty dessert!
  12. Enjoy!
Recipe by gabriela cuisine at http://gabrielacuisine.ro/tort-de-biscuiti-cu-ciocolata/