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Ingredients

  • 50g butter, plus extra for the tin
  • 400g blonde white chocolate (or if you can’t find it, use 500g regular white chocolate in total), broken into pieces
  • 100g white chocolate, broken into pieces
  • 2 tbsp double cream
  • 150g mixed dried fruit
  • 150g rich tea biscuits, roughly broken up into pieces
  • 150g glacé cherries, halved
  • 50g rice pops
  • 50g milk chocolate
  • bright red and green sweets and gold sugared almonds, to decorate (optional)

Method

  • STEP 1

    Butter and line a 20cm x 20cm baking tin with baking parchment. Put the butter and all the white chocolate in a heatproof bowl and set over a pan of just simmering water, ensuring the bowl doesn’t touch the water. Stir until melted, then remove from the heat. (You can also do this in the microwave in 10-second bursts, stirring between each, until melted). If the chocolate splits, use a hand blender and blitz until smooth.

  • STEP 2

    Stir in the remaining ingredients except for the milk chocolate and sweets, then tip the mixture into the tin. Smooth out with a spatula.

  • STEP 3

    Melt the milk chocolate as before, then drizzle over the mixture in the tin. Chill in the fridge until set, around 3 hrs, or overnight. Remove from the tin and cut into pieces. Will keep chilled for up to three days. Scatter over the sweets and sugared almonds, if using, or pile on a platter in the shape of a Christmas tree and scatter over the sweets and almonds, using an almond as a star to top it off.

Recipe tip

Leave out the sweets if you prefer or substitute with some flaked almonds.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, Christmas 2024

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