Chocolate fruit and biscuit bites

These chocolate biscuits are delicious and very easy to make.  You can also replace the base ingredients with nuts, marshmallows or other fruit peel, depending on what you prefer.

Chocolate fruit and biscuit bites

Prep Time 15 minutes
Chilling time 3 hours
Total Time 3 hours 15 minutes
Course Biscuits
Servings 16 squares

Ingredients
  

  • 225 g digestive biscuits
  • 110 g salted butter
  • 2 tbsp golden syrup
  • 3 tsps cocoa powder
  • handful of raisins
  • handful of glace cherries, cut into quarters
  • 150 g milk chocolate
  • 100 g dark chocolate

Instructions
 

  • Line a medium sized baking tray (28inch) with grease proof paper and set aside.
  • Place the biscuits into a sandwich bag and with a rolling pin, break up into crumbs, but not too fine and set aside.
  • In a saucepan, melt the butter and sugar over a low heat, then stir in the golden syrup and cocoa powder and mix together.
  • Take off the heat and add the crushed biscuits, raisins and glace cherries and mix until everything is covered in chocolate.
  • Tip the biscuit mixture into the prepared baking tray, press down.
  • In the meantime, melt the chocolate over a saucepan of water.  Once melted, pour over the biscuit mixture and level out.  Place the tray in a fridge for 2-3 hours.
  • When ready to eat, remove from the fridge, cut into squares and any left over place in a storage tin for another day.