Name: Easy Chocolate Tiffin
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 2 h 10 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 1/2 oz or 75 g golden syrup; 3 1/2 oz or 100 g unsalted butter, diced; 10oz or 300 g milk chocolate, roughly chopped; 2 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder; 8oz or 225 g biscuits, such as digestives, or Graham Crackers, crushed; 3 1/2 oz or 100g raisins

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Easy Chocolate Tiffin is a delicious no-bake British recipe, made of chocolate, crushed cookies, syrup, and raisins, often served at English afternoon tea.

This is a wonderful sweet snack! For those of you who aren't familiar with this delicious chocolate snack called Tiffin, we've added some information below, and if you're from Britain, or perhaps one of its many colonies around the world, you will likely be familiar with the popular English Afternoon Teas, and no doubt have seen and tasted tiffins.

Depending on where in the world you live, you may know of this as chocolate cement, chocolate concrete, chocolate tray bake, or something similar.

Easy English Tiffin is a delicious no-bake British colonial recipe, made of chocolate, crushed cookies, syrup, and raisins, often served at English afternoon tea.

Tiffin is super easy to make, and requires absolutely no baking, and the young ones can easily help you with the prep of these little bars.

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They're often served at an English Afternoon Tea, alongside lots of other small, dainty finger foods, and they simply taste delicious! If you'd like to do an English Afternoon Tea, we have lots of recipes for a typical afternoon tea, so be sure to take a look!

Easy Chocolate Tiffin is a delicious no-bake British colonial recipe, made of chocolate, crushed cookies, syrup, and raisins, often served at English afternoon tea.

We've given some substitutes for a few ingredients if you're not in the UK, for example, Digestive biscuits which are everywhere in England, and pretty much nowhere in the USA, well, you can use Graham Crackers. They're a great substitute. If you shop at Amazon, you can buy digestive biscuits there.

For the Golden Syrup, you could do with really trying to get hold of this delicious stuff! It is so good and used on many things such as pancakes, drizzled on cakes, added to the cake batter, in cookies, and so on! The nearest equivalent in the USA is corn syrup, although that is not as thick as golden syrup, it will work fine.

You can buy Golden Syrup from Amazon so check this out so you know what the packaging looks like.

Table of Contents 📋 hide

1) What is a British tiffin?

2) How is tiffin made?

3) Can I make changes to the ingredients?

4) Prep Time

5) Chill Time

6) Serves

7) Equipment you’ll need

8) Ingredients

9) Instructions

10) Recipe Card

11) Easy Chocolate Tiffin

12) Easy Sweet Bar Recipes

What is a British tiffin?

Tiffin is a layered bar recipe, made up of crushed cookies, sugar, syrup, raisins, cherries (optional), and cocoa powder, often covered with a layer of melted chocolate.

How is tiffin made?

Unlike regular cookies, Tiffin does not require baking. Instead, following the preparation of the mixture, it's simply chilled until set.

Can I make changes to the ingredients?

Swap the raisins for any other preferred dried fruit – cherries, apricots, or sultanas all work perfectly. Add some mini marshmallows to add a twist to the classic rocky road recipe!

Prep Time

10 minutes

Chill Time

1 hour

Serves

20 pieces

Equipment you’ll need

8-inch square pan
parchment paper
saucepan
heatproof bowl
spatula

Ingredients

golden syrup
unsalted butter, diced
Cocoa Powder
biscuits, such as digestives, or Graham Crackers, crushed
raisins
milk chocolate, roughly chopped

See the recipe card below for quantities.

Instructions

Line the base and sides of a 20cm/8in square baking pan with baking paper.

In a saucepan, add the golden syrup, cocoa powder, and butter, under medium heat, and warm through until everything has melted and combined.

In a separate bowl, add the chopped chocolate, and place in the microwave at 30-second intervals until completely melted.
You can also melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of gently simmering water. (as in the photo below). This is a great way to melt large batches, for example, if you are going to double or triple this recipe.

Easy English Tiffin, how to melt chocolate

In a large mixing bowl, add the crushed digestive biscuits and raisins and then pour in the syrup butter mixture from the saucepan. Using a spatula, mix everything until well combined.

Easy Chocolate Tiffin, combine syrup mixture to cookies

Transfer the cookie mixture to the baking pan and smooth it out, whilst pushing down slightly to firm it up, with the back of a spoon.

Easy Chocolate Tiffin, flatten base down with cup

Finally, pour the melted chocolate onto the leveled cookie layer and spread evenly so the whole surface is coated.

Easy Chocolate Tiffin, tilt pan to spread chocolate evenly

Place in the fridge for at least 2 - 3 hours so it can firm up.
Slice into suitable-sized squares or rectangles.

Note: these are very rich and sweet so we would suggest cutting them in to no more than 1 – 2 inch wide squares

We'd love to hear from you and what you thought of our recipe. Did you make any changes or add some other ingredients? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks for reading and happy cooking!

Recipe Card

Easy Chocolate Tiffin

Yield: 20

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Additional Time: 2 hours

Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes

Easy Chocolate Tiffin is a delicious no-bake British recipe, made of chocolate, crushed cookies, syrup, and raisins, often served at English afternoon tea.

Ingredients

2 ½ oz or 75 g golden syrup
3 ½ oz or 100 g unsalted butter, diced
10oz or 300 g milk chocolate, roughly chopped
2 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder
8oz or 225 g biscuits, such as digestives, or Graham Crackers, crushed
3 ½ oz or 100g raisins

Instructions

Line the base and sides of a 20cm/8in square baking pan with baking paper.
In a saucepan, add the golden syrup, cocoa powder, and butter, under medium heat, and warm through until everything has melted and combined.
In a separate bowl, add the chopped chocolate, and place in the microwave at 30-second intervals until completely melted.
You can also melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of gently simmering water. This is a great way to melt large batches, for example, if you are going to double or triple this recipe
4. In a large mixing bowl, add the crushed cookies and raisins and then pour in the syrup butter mixture from the saucepan. Using a spatula, mix everything until well combined.
Transfer the cookie mixture to the baking pan and smooth it out, whilst pushing down slightly to firm it up, with the back of a spoon.
Finally, pour the melted chocolate on to the leveled cookie layer and spread evenly so the whole surface is coated.
Place in the fridge for at least 2 - 3 hours so it can firm up.
Slice into suitable-sized squares or rectangles.

Notes

These are very rich and sweet so we would suggest cutting them in to no more than 1 - 2 inch wide squares

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Nutrition Information:

Yield: 20 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 190Total Fat: 11gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 15mgSodium: 86mgCarbohydrates: 22gFiber: 1gSugar: 13gProtein: 2g

Nutrition information isn’t always accurate