gateau zaza

(from Christiner’s recipe box)

Categories: dessert

Ingredients

  • 100g dry tea biscuits ( you want hard biscuits and not soft digestives, Ghandour biscuits if you’re in Lebanon)
  • 1.5 cups of milk (you can substitute with cream)
  • 2 cups of sugar
  • 1 cup cocoa powder, sifted
  • 2 tablespoons vanilla
  • 1 egg, the freshest available
  • 1 large sheet of cling film
  • 1 loaf pan

Directions

  1. 1) In a sauce pan, add the milk, sugar, sifted cocoa and vanilla and bring to a boil while mixing well. Once it comes to a boil, just reduce the heat and let it simmer, mixing continuously, till you reach a thick syrupy mixture. This should take about 10 minutes altogether.

  2. 2) Take off the heat and let it cool for about 15 minutes, stirring every couple of minutes. At the end of the fifteen minutes add the egg

  3. 3) Place the cookies on a shopping board and apply some force with your palms, crushing them only to get rough, medium sized pieces

  4. 4) Cover the bottom of the loaf pan with cling film making sure you have a generous amount falling off the sides, like wings

  5. 5) Add the biscuits to the cling film covered loaf pan

  6. 6) By now the sauce should have cooled down. Add the egg and mix well. Drizzle all over the the crushed biscuits and close the top of the cling film.

  7. ) Set in the freezer for 5 hours. When ready, tip it over onto a plate and serve.

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