Made with just 4 ingredients, this Easy Peasy Chocolate Tiffin is a super simple no bake treat that’s perfect for making with kids and takes less than 10 minutes to make!
My daughter’s recipe…
A few weeks ago, I shared with you a recipe that my son created. Well this week it’s my daughter’s turn to be featured!
My daughter (age 14) has been working on this easy peasy version of tiffin for several weeks – perfecting it to get it ‘just right’ – to get it to the absolute perfect combination of easy and delicious… and I think she’s absolutely nailed it!
This Easy Peasy Chocolate Tiffin recipe contains just 4 ingredients and only takes 10 minutes to make, but it is super delicious and dangerously moreish!
A super easy tiffin recipe!
Some tiffin recipes have a long list of ingredients, require a lot of faffing about and seem to dirty every bowl and utensil in the house… not so with this Easy Peasy Chocolate Tiffin recipe!
All you need to do is melt some chocolate, mix in crushed digestive biscuits and raisins, then tip into a lined tray and flatten. Next, pour over some more melted chocolate and smooth it over, to make an even layer of chocolate all over the top. Finally, chill for an hour in the fridge, before cutting into squares. Easy Peasy!
(Full recipe in the recipe card below.)
Perfect for making with kids
This is one of the best recipes for making with kids – especially kids with short attention spans!
Kids can help with breaking the chocolate into the bowl, bashing the biscuits, stirring the biscuits and raisins into the chocolate, and spreading out the mixture in the tin… and of course licking the bowl and tidying up ‘spare’ chocolate / biscuits / raisins!
(And older children can make this all by themselves – with or without supervision, depending on their age and ability.)
The best chocolate for tiffin?
Through my daughter’s many experimentations, she discovered that a mix of dark and milk chocolate gives the best flavour to the tiffin.
Specifically she recommends using a 50/50 mix of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk and Cadbury’s Bourneville.
But this recipe is very flexible… you can absolutely do 100% milk chocolate or 100% dark chocolate, if you prefer!
The easy peasy way to melt chocolate…
The only vaguely, potentially difficult bit of this recipe is melting the chocolate and even that is simple if you do it my easy peasy way.
To melt the chocolate, I first pour boiling water into a large saucepan, then I sit a glass bowl over the saucepan so the bowl just touches the water on the base. Then I break the chocolate into pieces and place the pieces in the glass bowl. Then I just give them a stir occasionally until they are fully melted.
Basically it’s a slightly cheaty version of the traditional bain marie method, where normally you would have the water gently simmering and the bowl not touching the water. I find my way easier and less likely to go wrong (especially with children and other distractions!), but if you want to use the more standard method then feel free.
If you are making this with little ones, I advise you either melt the chocolate first while they are well away, or do as I used to do when my kids were small and use it as an educational exercise, allowing them to watch me stir the chocolate while we discuss the dangers of boiling hot water (can you tell I used to be a teacher?!).
Either way, one really important tip: DO NOT ALLOW ANY WATER TO GET INTO THE CHOCOLATE! Otherwise it will go grainy and bad and you will have to start again. If your bowl fits tightly over the saucepan, and you are careful, this shouldn’t be a problem.
What’s the best way to store tiffin?
Store tiffin in an airtight container, such as a cake tin or a plastic food container.
In hot weather I recommend that you keep the tiffin in the fridge. But at normal temperatures, it’s fine to store them at room temperature.
How long does tiffin last?
About 30 seconds, in my experience!
Seriously, tiffin will keep for at least 7 days in an airtight container… Though you’d have to have the willpower of a saint (and no children / sweet-toothed other halves!) for them to last that long.
Can you freeze tiffin?
I don’t recommend freezing tiffin.
If you like this recipe…
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Easy Peasy Chocolate Tiffin (Only 4 Ingredients!)
Ingredients
- 250 g milk chocolate I use Cadbury’s Dairy Milk
- 250 g dark chocolate I use Cadbury’s Bourneville
- 200 g digestive biscuits
- 100 g raisins
Instructions
- Grease and line a 23 x 23cm (9 x 9 inch) tin with baking paper
- Melt the milk and dark chocolate together in a glass bowl over a pan of just-boiled water. Do not allow any water to touch the chocolate! (see Note 1)
- Remove the bowl from the saucepan when the chocolate is fully melted.
- Place the biscuits in a bowl and bash into small chunks using a rolling pin.
- Add the raisins to the biscuits, then carefully pour over roughly TWO THIRDS of the melted chocolate, and stir everything together thoroughly.
- Transfer the mixture to the lined tin. Spread the mixture out and then press down using the back of a large spoon or similar (I actually use a potato masher to press the mixture flat, which works really well!)
- Next, pour over the remaining chocolate and use the back of a spoon to smooth it over, to make an even layer of chocolate all over the top.
- Chill for at least 1 hour in the fridge, then remove and cut into 16 squares.
Notes
- To melt the chocolate, first pour boiling water into a large saucepan, then sit a glass bowl over the saucepan so the bowl just touches the water on the base. Next, break the chocolate into pieces and place the pieces into the glass bowl. Stir occasionally until the chocolate is fully melted. DO NOT ALLOW ANY WATER TO GET INTO THE CHOCOLATE! Otherwise it will go grainy and bad and you will have to start again. If your bowl fits tightly over the saucepan, this shouldn’t be a problem.
- Not suitable for freezing.
- Nutrition information is approximate and meant as a guideline only.
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Val says
I made the coconut flapjacks. Wow so easy to make and were absolutely fabulous. Getting ready for my next recipe to try, the Chocolate Tiffin.
Eb Gargano says
Yay – I am so happy to hear that! Thanks for this lovely review and especially the 5* rating 😀 Enjoy the tiffin!
Charmaine Badenhorst says
Chocolate tiffin was so easy to make and absolutely delicious 😋 Yummie!!
Can’t wait to bake the coconut flapjacks or to start on your 4 week meal plan. Looks Brilliant, Eb – thank you – everyone needs that extra help in the kitchen xx
Eb Gargano says
Yay – I am so happy to hear that! Thanks for this lovely review and especially the 5* rating 😀 Enjoy the flapjacks and the meal plan!
Michelle says
Made the chocolate tiffin once and it is already a firm favourite in our house!
So easy to make for someone like me who is not a baker.
I signed up to receive your recipes and I’m looking forward to trying more meals, thank you!
Eb Gargano says
Yay – I am so happy to hear that! Thanks for this lovely review and especially the 5* rating 😀