Holiday Chocolate Nut Squares

Ingredients

• 4 ounces sugar
• 4 ounces unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 6 ounces digestive biscuits
• 3 ounces grated fresh coconut
• 2 ounces walnuts, finely chopped
• 3 tablespoons water
• 4 ounces unsalted butter
• 1 lb icing sugar, sieved
• 2 tablespoons custard powder
• 6 ounces dessert chocolate, broken into pieces
• 2 ounces walnuts, roughly chopped

Recipe

• 1 heat the butter in a saucepan until melted.
• 2 stir in the sugar, cocoa powder, egg, vanilla, biscuits, coconut and walnuts and mix together well.
• 3 spread the mixture over the base of a swiss roll tin 33x23 cm or similar.
• 4 leave in the fridge while you make the filling.
• 5 heat the water in a pan. add the butter, sugar and custard powder and beat all together until soft and well mixed.
• 6 spread over the biscuit base and return to the fridge.
• 7 melt the chocolate in a microwave or in a pan until melted. drizzle the chocolate evenly over the filling.
• 8 sprinkle with the nuts and return to the fridge.
• 9 when it is cool and set, cut into required number of pieces.
• 10 store in an airtight container.
• 11 enjoy!