Vintage Valentine Cake Recipe

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and today I’m featuring this pretty no-bake cake from a very delicious vintage recipe book: Cadbury’s Chocolate Cookery. (All you chocoholics out there, more about this book will follow at another time!)

Chocolate Crumble Cake (for variation to make a Valentine Cake, see below)

½ lb. sweet broken biscuits (which make include corn flakes or a similar ingredient)

Vanilla Essence

2 ozs. butter or margarine

1 oz. sugar

1 tablespoon corn syrup

1 oz. Bournville Cocoa

Grease a 6-inch sandwich tin (loose-bottomed if you have it). Cream fat with cocoa. Beat in melted syrup and add crushed biscuits and vanilla essence. Mix together until thoroughly coated. Pack tightly into tin. Leave to set 3 or 4 hours or overnight if possible. Ease out of loose-bottomed tin. It may be necessary to warm tin slightly. Spread with jam and coat with coconut. Decorate with cherries if desired.

Valentine Cake:

Use double quantities of Chocolate Crumble Cake and press into a heart-shaped cake pan. To make the arrow on the heart, cut an arrow out of stiff paper or cardboard. Place this on the coconut, sprinkle Chocolate Vermicelli round it, and remove the cardboard.

 

With love from,