Marshmallow Slice
photo by fluffernutter
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
16
ingredients
- 90 g dark chocolate, cut into small pieces
- 90 g unsalted butter
- 3 eggs
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 1 orange, rind of, grated
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 cup brazil nut, roughly chopped
- 100 g marshmallows
-
ICING
- 90 g dark chocolate, cut into small pieces
- 45 g unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
-
TO DECORATE
- 12 brazil nuts, cut into thin slices
directions
- Preheat oven to moderate 180°C Butter base of 20cm square tin and line with non stick baking paper.
- Melt chocolate and butter in a basin as it stands over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir until smooth.
- Beat eggs with sugar and orange rind until fluffy, add chocolate mixture and stir it through.
- Sift flour, salt and baking powder over top and mix through, add nuts then mix again.
- Put half the mixture into prepared tin. Cut marshmallows in half across the centre. Arrange on top of mixture in tin, leaving a tiny space between each one.
- Place small spoonfuls of remaining cake mixture on top of marshmallows. Carefully spread mixture with a knife to fill gaps between marshmallows.
- Bake in oven for 25 minutes or until firm to the touch. Leave to cool completely before turning and cutting into pieces.
- To make chocolate icing, melt chocolate and butter in a bowl as it stands over a pan of simmering water. Stir until smooth then spread over top of slice to make a thin chocolate coating.
- Decorate with slices of brazil nut before icing has set. Slice when cool into desired pieces.
- Yield is an estimate, you can cut this into as many pieces as you like.
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