Mum's No Cook Fudge Cake

Orange or Lemon Fudge Cake











Mum's No Cook Fudge Cake



Dad loved morning tea, afternoon tea, and supper and insisted on

a variety of things to eat, so Mum always had several tins of baked

goods on hand. This chocolate fudge cake was one of her regulars

and good for using up cookies that are a bit stale, too.



4 oz or 1/2 cup butter

3 oz. or about 2/3 cup icing/powdered sugar

1 egg

1 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder

1/4 tsp vanilla

1 cup walnuts or pecans, broken or chopped

7 oz. "wine biscuits" (or any plain, not too sweet cookie. Wine

biscuits are plain, thin, slightly sweet vanilla cookies with imprinted

designs and a texture about similar to some graham crackers, so I

guess you could use them if you can't get "Nice" biscuits or wine

biscuits or some plain, vanilla cookie.)- break roughly or put in

a plastic bag and run a rolling pin over them several times to get

some crumbs and some pieces about the size of a quarter



Melt butter, add sugar, cocoa and slightly beaten egg. Add chopped

nuts and biscuits broken in pieces. Add vanilla and spread in a

7x11 sponge tin. Press in well. Leave 24 hours in a cool place.

Ice with chocolate icing, if liked.



Variations- you could use chopped almonds and some almond

essence, or put in chopped glace cherries. A few mini-marshmallows

might go well. When you cut the bars, you should see the odd

bit of biscuit amongst the chocolate.