So me and Boy No. 1 were sitting watching Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard, and he created a chocolate honeycomb fridge cake which looked super easy to make and delicious, so we decided to make our own version!
I'm not too keen on Maltesers, which Eric uses lots of for his recipe, but I LOVE M&Ms and decided to mainly substitute the "chocolate honeycomb balls" for M&Ms - the milk chocolate variety. I say "mainly" substitute as we found an opened tube of Maltesters in the cupboard which were leftover from Christmas and decided to use them up!
The base of the cake consisted of chocolate melted in a saucepan with butter and golden syrup. To this we added broken up digestive biscuits, a few broken up pecan nuts and finally the M&Ms, before pressing this into a lined 20cm square tin.
The tin then went into the fridge so the base could set.
Once the cake was cold, we spread 50g melted milk chocolate over the top (to act a a glue) and then added our own twist further by using a few other additional things from the cupboard to decorate the top - white chocolate buttons, pecan nuts and jelly drops - whereas Eric just uses broken up digestive biscuits and more maltesers.
To finish, Boy No. 1 enjoyed helping me drizzle melted milk and white chocolate all over the top. The "cake" then went back into the fridge to finish setting.
This was yummy and we enjoyed the variety of the topping as each piece was different! We would certainly make this again as we had so much fun putting it together and it would be just perfect for a childrens' birthday party.
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