Wuselig Recipes · Recipe 09
Puschel’s Chilled Chocolate Biscuit Slices
A no-bake German chocolate biscuit cake known as Kalter Hund: crisp butter biscuits and creamy chocolate layers become Puschel’s chilled chocolate slices.
The little story
Layer by Layer to Chocolate Happiness
A loaf tin lined with baking paper was waiting in the Wusel kitchen. Flauschi set the cooled chocolate cream beside it while Puschel counted the butter biscuits.
Puschel“Twelve, thirteen, fourteen … I could build a wonderful biscuit tower with these.”
Flauschi“Today we had better build sideways. One chocolate layer, one biscuit layer, and then the same again.”
Puschel picked up a small stack with both paws. He held it a little crooked, but not a single biscuit fell. Meanwhile, Flauschi smoothed the first chocolate layer neatly.
Puschel“See? Today I am the most reliable biscuit stacker in the whole Wusel Forest.”
Together they filled the tin layer by layer. Only Puschel’s nose came a tiny bit too close to the chocolate cream. It left a chocolatey smudge that he did not notice at all.
Flauschi“Your biscuit stack is very tidy. But it seems your nose has already had a taste.”
Puschel“That is part of a careful chocolate inspection.”
They both laughed and put the tin in the fridge. A few hours later, they cut into the chilled cake. Every slice showed pale biscuits and dark chocolate in little stripes.
Preparation: about 25 minutes · Heating: about 10 minutes · Chilling: at least 4 hours · Total: about 4 hours 35 minutes
Makes one loaf, about 12 slices
How to make it
In a few words: Layer biscuits and chocolate cream in a tin and chill for at least four hours.
Ingredients
- 250 g rectangular butter biscuits
- 200 g dark chocolate
- 100 g milk chocolate
- 150 ml double cream
- 60 g coconut oil
- 1 sachet vanilla sugar, about 8 g
- 1 small pinch of salt
Method
- Line a loaf tin about 25 cm long with baking paper, leaving enough paper over the sides to lift the cake later. An adult helps with this.
- Finely chop both kinds of chocolate. Gently warm the cream and coconut oil in a saucepan until the oil has melted. Do not let it boil. An adult handles this step.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat. Add the chocolate, vanilla sugar and salt, then stir slowly until smooth. Leave the cream to cool for a few minutes.
- Spread a thin layer of chocolate cream over the base of the tin. Place a close-fitting layer of butter biscuits on top; an adult can cut pieces to fit the edges.
- Continue alternating chocolate cream and biscuits until they are used up. Finish with a chocolate layer.
- Cover the tin and chill for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.
- Lift the chilled cake from the tin using the baking paper. An adult cuts it into narrow slices with a sharp knife.
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