Squidgy Coffee Bars (AKA Death Cake)

[iamshadow]

Click for recipe, and my notes!

Very very adaptable recipe with brilliant GF results. Completely diet destroying (unless one is aiming for butter, fudge, chocolate and nuts).
For those who can't have coffee, chocolate, nuts, etc - this is a surprisingly good recipe for you, as it's entirely adaptable to what you like and what you have lingering in your cupboard. I've made a bunch of suggestions for alternate ingredients, but feel free to go wild with ones I haven't listed. I'm sure your results will be ace.

Also, if you DO make it GF, ask people to taste it, then tell them it's GF. Nobody will believe you. I've done this half a dozen times, and the reaction is always the same.

Comments

[miss_haitch]

This looks AMAZING, and has inspired me to try it out this weekend. I'm especially glad that it works well gluten free!

[iamshadow]

It does sink in the middle after cooling, but as you see from the cookbook picture, it does that with regular wheaten flour too.

Let me know how it goes for you!

[miss_haitch]

Verdict: excellent! My partner and I tried it with milk chocolate chips, vanilla fudge and pistachio nuts. I was a bit worried when it first came out of the oven because it was a little dry to be properly cohesive, but once it cooled the fudge bound it together nicely - and, most importantly, it tastes delicious. We're having it now with strawberries, yoghurt and leftover chopped fudge and pistachios, and I'm definitely looking forward to trying out different iterations. Thank you for sharing the recipe!

[iamshadow]

Brilliant! I've never tried it with pistachios, we don't buy them that often.

Yeah, it definitely firms up as it sets. I told someone over on my journal that if they're unsure whether it's bound together enough, they should refrigerate it for half an hour or so after cooking, before trying to serve it.