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  • 200g bar dark chocolate
    broken into chunks
  • 700ml double cream
  • 5 boxes good milk chocolate biscuits
    48 biscuits in total, or to make your own see tip, below
  • 400g mascarpone
  • 5 tbsp Irish cream
  • 5 tbsp icing sugar
    sifted

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal858
  • fat62g
  • saturates39g
  • carbs63g
  • sugars40g
  • fibre4g
  • protein8g
  • salt0.7g
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Method

  • step 1

    Melt the chocolate and 150ml of the cream together in a small pan. Cool until spreadable, then use to sandwich pairs of the cookies together.

  • step 2

    Choose a cake stand or flat plate to assemble your cake. Tip the remaining cream, the mascarpone, Irish cream and icing sugar into a big bowl, and use an electric hand whisk to beat until thick and the mixture is just holding its shape.

  • step 3

    Arrange some of your cookie sandwiches to make a base that almost covers the plate. Dot a little of the cream under each, and stick into position. Spread or dollop over a good layer of cream, then add another layer of cookies, a little smaller than the first. To get a neat finish, choose a front to your cake – and always start by arranging the outside ring of cookies from there (then you can snap cookies in half to fill in the middle). Repeat, making the layers smaller each time, until you finish with a single cookie and a dollop of cream on top! Chill in the fridge overnight.

RECIPE TIPS
MAKE YOUR OWN COOKIES

Mix 250g plain flour, 300g golden caster sugar, 100g cocoa powder and half tsp salt in a bowl. Gently melt 100g dark chocolate and 100g butter together, then stir into the dry ingredients, followed by 2 large beaten eggs. Add chocolate chips if you wish, then space heaped tbsps of the mixture onto parchment-lined baking trays and bake at 180C/160C fan/gas 4 for 12-15 mins. Makes 48 cookies – enough for the pud.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2013

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A star rating of 4.5 out of 5.2 ratings

sashbynoe

Very yummy and simple. Made the cookies from the recipe given. They were very nice and went well with the dish, but I just about got 30 from it, no way would it have stretched to 48. Portions were still generous though so I would use it agaiin

lidewij

I made this for the new years dinner at work. It was lovely. I had some mascarpone cream mixture left over so I put it in a bowl next to the cake for anyone who wanted more to dip their cookie in. Next time, however, I would add a few spoonfuls of baileys to the chocolate mixture as well as to the…

BakingJenny

This is a great pudding with wow factor, have done it several times. Only thing is I don't have room for it in my fridge over night as its huge! So I whip the cream and put together right before serving.

lesleyenglish6

question

I want to make this for the children on Christmas Day, but don't want to use alcohol (or anything coffee flavoured). Can anyone suggest an alternative to adding baileys? What would it taste like if nothing extra was added? Thanks

1abi111

I would add some vanilla extract, start with 1tsp then taste.

Pennydoctor

Lovely flavours. But even without whipping, the mascarpone-cream mixture was so thick that it didn't moisten the cookies enough to soften them after 17 hours in the fridge. So next time I will use less mascarpone, and whipping instead of double cream to lighten the mix. And, although the…

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