The other week I had a go at Not Quite Nigella's Chocolate Peppermint Slice. It was quite easy, save for the fact my food processor doesn't work all that well - it doesn't have a good enough cyclone action, so it blends the bottom really well but leaves the top untouched. Super frustrating and makes everything take a lot longer than it should.
The base is meant to be 300g plain "cookies". I ended up using a pack of Milk Arrowroot, plus about a third of a pack I had leftover from something else. 2 tablespoons cocoa powder, a bit of coconut (the recipe called for 35g of dessicated coconut - who sits and measures out 35g??), 150g melted butter, 150g sweetened condensed milk (Coles were out of the 150g tubes, so I used about half a 400g tin). Blend the whole lot together (remember aforementioned horrible blender, so this was pretty painful) then spread out into a pan (Lorraine used a 20cm x 20cm tin, but I wanted to make it thinner).
Then 500g (!!!) of icing sugar (not mixture), blended with water, and with a little splash of peppermint essence. I don't have food colourings in the house, but you could use green food colouring here. More frustration with the food processor here. Be sure not to add too much water at a time.
Then a block of dark chocolate and a tablespoon or two of oil (I used some coconut oil).
Tip: don't let the chocolate fully set before trying to cut it up! Possibly I didn't use enough coconut oil, but in the end I had to let it warm up quite a bit in order to cut it without it shattering in odd ways.
But in the end it actually turned out really well. The thicknesses of everything was a little uneven - some pieces had a very thin layer of icing. And there felt like *so much* of it because I cut it up fairly small on account of All The Sugar :)
Sylvia Johnson
I want some! Looks yummy!