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Chocolate Block (PRL style)

(aka creatio ex nihilo – because a Pole just can)

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup sugar
• 200 g unslted butter
• ½ cup 2% milk
• 5 Tbs unsweetened cocoa
• 2 cups powdered milk
• 2 packages of Petit Beurre biscuits (100 g each)
• a generous handful of delicacies: raisins, almonds, dried cranberries, dried cherries (or any mix of dried fruits and nuts of your choice)
• a drop or two of orange aroma to make the block taste more fancy (optional, because – let’s be honest – the block is scrumptious but will never ever be anything close to fancy)

Preparation:

1. Melt butter in a small pan.

2. Add sugar and cook it until dissolved. Add milk and cocoa. Mix well. Cool it a little bit. If using the aroma, here’s when you add it to the mass.

3. Add powdered milk, crumbled biscuits and delicacies into a big bowl. Mix thoroughly. Combine with the butter mixture, mix really well and pour the mass into a small loaf pan (approx. 25 x 12 cm) lined with a clingfilm or parchment paper.

4. Cool in the fridge for at least 3 hours (preferably overnight). Serve thinly sliced as too much of this goodness will simply make you nauseous.

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