Chocolate Limes – Torcik

In England there are some old fashioned sweets called chocolate limes, which I really like. They consist of a crunchy lime coating over a dark chocolate paste centre.

I have been making several chilled cakes – torcik – and thought I would try out a variation based on this chocolate and lime idea.

This torcik is a variation on ones that I made previously with different fruits and bases.

I tried out a few variations on the proportions of the ingredients and decided that just having two layers worked best with a chocolate flake decorations on the top.

1. Biscuit & chocolate base
2. Sweet curd cheese with lime jelly

Ingredients

• 100g of plain biscuits such as petit beurre, morning coffee or rich tea
• 40g butter
• 50g dark  chocolate
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• 300g twaróg or yoghurt cheese (could use full fat cream cheese)
• 150g icing sugar
• 80g butter
• 4 yolks
• 1 packets of lime jelly
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•  Cadburys flake or grated dark chocolate to decorate.

Method

• Use a 22cm diameter loose bottomed or spring-form tin.
• This is a smaller size than for my previous ones.
• Lightly rub the base with some butter.
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• Crush the biscuits into small crumbs.
• Melt the butter and chocolate gently, stirring to prevent burning.
• Add the biscuit crumbs and mix well together.
• Put the mixture into the base of the tin and press it down firmly.
• Leave till it is cold.
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• Dissolve the lime jelly in 150ml of boiling water and leave to cool.
• The tricky bit is having the jelly at the right temperature to use.
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• Cream together the butter and icing sugar.
• Add the egg yolks, one by one, alternating with the twaróg.
• Mix thoroughly.
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• Gently mix in the cool jelly.
• Pour the mixture over the base.
• Level the top.
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• Leave for around 30 minutes so the jelly is starting to set.
• Decorate  the top with sprinkled grated chocolate or flakes or both.
• Leave to set – best in the fridge – for at least 3 hours.
• Take great care when removing the torcik out of the tin.
• Use a long thin spatula to ease the edge.
• Use a tin to place the cake tin on to move it apart from the base.

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