Half-term Goodies

February 11th - It's been half term and we were meeting up with our daughter who wanted to go skiing.  As a mum I've always taken some goodies when I've seen the kids at university - in fact I used to post them to our son. I shudder to think how much that actually cost. After all, variations on chocolate and digestives can be quite weighty! Anyhow Malteser cake is her favourite so that's what I made.  But the combination of my resolution and recent baking success prompted me to try another cake. I love gingerbread and looked to Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries to provide an easy recipe.
So Double Ginger Cake it was. I liked the chunks of stem ginger and sultanas, though they did sink to the bottom, and the cake was indeed 'light and moist' but I added more than the 2 teaspoons of ginger that it said in the recipe and could have done with more gingeriness.  Also my cake does not look like the picture in the recipe book......(does this sound familiar?)

Family joined us for a night...and by morning all the Malteser cake was gone.  Long live digestives!  Here's the recipe - from a good friend of mine. Don't think about the calories - a little bit of what you fancy and all that....

Melt 4oz butter, 8oz milk chocolate and 3 tablespoons of syrup over a low heat.  Add 8oz crushed digestive biscuits and 8oz Maltesers (take out about 10 and crush for later).  Press into an 11x8 inch baking tray.  Then melt 8oz white chocolate and use it to cover the Malteser cake, sprinkling the crushed Maltesers on the top.  Set in the fridge.  Cut when set (this is quite tricky so probably burns off quite a few calories before you sit down and enjoy it!!)