No Bake Chocolate Cake

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Sometimes a little bit of distraction is a very good thing. Baking (and eating!) something delicious can help take your mind off what's happening in your family. Maybe you could cook this with a friend or a sibling.

Mix Up A Mud Pie
This recipe for a chocolate mud pie is from The Cooking Book, by Jane Bull, published by Dorling Kindersley in 2002.

You need:
125 g castor sugar
175 g butter
250 g broken biscuits
1 tbsp. cocoa powder
125 g dried fruit
1 chocolate bar for topping

Base

1 - melt the butter. Don't get it too hot, just melt it!

2 - add cocoa and sugar. Take the pan off the heat to do this.

3 - now add fruit and biscuits.

4 - mix it all up.

5 - put foil in the tin. (20 cm diameter round cake tin)

6 - pour in the mix.

7 - press it down (with the back of a wooden spoon)

8 - place it in the fridge. Leave it for about 2 hours.

Topping
The topping uses hot (boiling) water, so get and adult to help

1 - melt the chocolate. Pour some very hot water into a bowl and place another bowl on top of it. Break up the chocolate and place it in the top bowl. Let the heat melt it.

2 - pour it onto the base.

3 - spread the topping out.

I hope you enjoy cooking and eating this!

Thanks, and stay safe,
Lucy.