Broken Bicuit Cake? Can anyone help?

[Lucy]

Hi lovely ladies,

When I was little my Mum used to make a "Broken Buscuit Cake" which was a way to use up all the broken biscuits in the bottom of the tin.........mixed with, I think, cocoa, maybe nuts too, and copha. It is not really a cake at all, more of a slice?

I have asked her if she can remember, and of course she can't.........she did have a recipe once (scribbled on the back of an envelope..........LOL, long since lost)

I have, of course, Googled it, to no avail.........the only recipes that come up are made with melted chocolate and fruit........I have literally checked every link, and a recipe with cocoa and copha doesn't come up........

I have also asked my Mums sisters........they too have forgotten how to make it!

SO, if anyone knows exactly what I am on about and has a recipe, let me know? I figure it must be an Australian recipe to have Copha in it, and for my Mum to have cooked it.........

(I could probably do a trial and error and guess how to make it, but I am kind of yearing for my Mums old recipe.......)

[{sarah}]

It's not a hedgehog cake is it Lucy? There are lots of varieties, but this one has copha in it.....

125g copha
1 tablespoon cocoa
250g crushed biscuits
1/2 cup walnuts
1 cup chopped fruit
125g castor sugar
1 egg
vanilla

Place copha, castor sugar, cocoa and egg on low heat. Boil until Bubbling.
Mix in other ingredients. Pour onto grease proof paper in flat tray.

Ice with chocolate, sprinkle chopped nuts and refrigerate until cool and cut into fingers.

[Rouge]

Sherry Fruit Slice
Ingredients
125g Copha
250g crushed Milk Coffee Biscuits
90g Brown Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Cocoa
1 teaspoon Mixed Spice
125g chopped Dates
45g chopped Raisins
30g chopped Mixed Nuts
Grated rind of 1 Orange
3 tablespoons Sherry
1 tablespoon Coffee Essence

You will need
A mixing bowl, a wooden spoon, a saucepan and an 18cm square cake tin


Directions

Melt the copha an a saucepan over a low heat
Put the biscuit crumbs, brown sugar, salt, cocoa, mixed spice fruit, nuts and orange rind into a large mixing bowl
Add the sherry and coffee essence to the melted copha
Pour the copha mixture over the dry ingredients and mix well
Press the mixture into a foil lined cake tin and chill to set
When firm cut the slice into bite sized pieces
Store in the fridge until required

Would this be it?

*hugs*
Cailin

[Patooties]

I just found this one on a recipe site. It's hedgehog slice too.

Biscuit Ingredients
250g Plain biscuits (coffee biscuits, cheap shortbread, etc)
1 cup Desiccated coconut
1/2 cup Cocoa
250g Cooking butter or margarine
1 tin Sweetened condensed milk

Icing Ingredients

1/2 cup Icing sugar
1 tablet Chocolate
Crushed nuts to decorate
Method

Crush the biscuits into they are only crumbs. Don't worry about large pieces left over, they add texture to the final product, but do try to make sure that most of the biscuit is crushed down to crumbs. Best method for crushing is putting a few biscuits in a plastic bag and either rolling over them with a rolling pin or crushing them with the back of a spoon.
Throw all the dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl.

Melt the butter/margarine (easiest in the microwave) and cut into smaller pieces so that it melts quicker.
Pour melted butter into a well and mix thoroughly. You should get dry clumps of a bread crumb consistency.

Pour in the sweetened condensed milk and mix in. Now the mixture will stick together. Time for the fridge.

Spread ingredients out in a slice tray Level out and pat down the ingredients with the back f your spoon as much as possible and put in the fridge for an hour or two. It will be ready to slice when it's rock hard and you can't make a dent with your finger.

For the icing, mix dry ingredients with a little water until you have a thick paste. Spread this over the top of your slice and then cut into squares for storage or eating.

Always store in the fridge... unless you decide it's better stored in your stomach of course.

[Lucy]

Girls, I am so sorry I haven't come back to you on this.........I am experimenting this afternoon, so I shall let you know how I go! Thank you all so much!

[Lucy]

OK, I found it!!

My Mum, bless her, rang an old friend, and got the recipe for me.

Merrily's Broken Biscuit Cake

250g broken plain biscuits
100g copha
4 tablespoons of golden syrup
2 tablespoons of cocoa

Melt the copha in a pan, and add the golden syrup and cocoa. Melt and combine all together.
Add the broken biscuits and combine really well.
Press into a slab tin
Score into fingers & refrigerate