Chocolate Date Bars

Updated at: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:15:57 GMT

Step 1

First prepare your ingredients. To begin, crush your biscuits in a food processor or by placing them in a freezer bag and bashing them with a rolling pin. You dont want many bigger pieces, the smaller the better (you don’t want a complete powder though). Chop your dates and nuts too.

Step 2

Melt your butter in a large saucepan or pot (big enough to add all the ingredients to) while constantly stirring. Add caster sugar and golden syrup and stir well until the sugar dissolves (you don't want the sugar to burn at the bottom). Remove from the heat.

Step 3

To the saucepan/pot add chopped dates to soften them while the butter mixture is still hot and mix well. Then add cocoa powder, chopped nuts and spice. Mix until well combined. Lastly add the crushed biscuits and mix well again until thoroughly combined.

Step 4

Press mixture into a lined 25cm × 30cm tin. You need to do this will all your strength because you dont want any gaps or for your bars to fall apart later. Use a glass and your hands to help.

Step 5

Melt your milk chocolate and pour it over the tray. Tilt the tray so the chocolate reaches the corners and gently tap it on a surface to level the chocolate.

Step 6

Melt some white chocolate and add it to a bag. Snip the edge to form a tiny hole and drizzle straight lines across the width of your tin, 2cm apart.

Step 7

Then drag a toothpick through the chocolate up and down across the length to create the feathering effect in the picture.

Step 8

Chill in the fridge JUST until the chocolate hardens so you’re able to cut them before they’ve set too much.

Step 9

Then cut into squares immediately using a very sharp knife and chill again for about 2 hours. Enjoy!

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