About the bake
Chocolate Concrete, Chocolate Crunch whatever you call it during your school days this retro bake is a true childhood favourite. This treat is delicious served hot, cold or drizzled in retro pink custard. Check out our simple Pink Custard recipe if you choose the latter option, it's a real blast from the past.
Method
Step 1:
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C Fan, Gas Mark 4) Grease and line a 23cm square tin with baking paper
Step 2:
Mix together the flour, sugar and cocoa in a bowl
Step 3:
Melt the butter and mix this in with the other ingredients using your fingers until it becomes crumbly
Step 4:
Pour the mixture into the tin and using your fingers press it down, ensuring that it fills all of the corners.
Step 5:
Bake for 20 minutes
Step 6:
Once removed from the oven finish with a sprinkling of granulated sugar and serve with custard. For a real retro feel try our pink custard recipe.
Ingredients
- 200g Allinson's Plain White Flour
- 200g Silver spoon granulated sugar
- 100g Butter (unsalted)
- 50g Cocoa powder
- 200g Allinson's Plain White Flour
Recipe Reviews
Yummy!!! Quick and easy too
Amazing recipe, loved it! Tasted so nice, thank you
I thought the mix was dry and that there wasn’t enough butter to get it to stick together so I added an extra 50g of butter.
It came out of the oven looking lovely and was soft enough to put a knife through so I left it a while to set before it set to represent its name suggests as chocolate concrete, after which there was no way of breaking into it with a dessert spoon.
I didn’t get to eat it after it set as it was a gift for a friend but I was told it was nice and crunchy ..
I’m going to make it again with the additional 50g butter I added in the first attempt. Can’t go too wrong with a chocolate bake 😊
I’ve awarded 4 stars as I had to modify the amount of butter.
Just add an egg as it will be too dry I love this recipe I make it all the time
Could you replace the butter with vegan butter, while keeping the amount the same?
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Hello,
I would think that would work fine. We have not tested it with vegan butter so please let us know how you get on.
Happy Baking!
If I add more melted butter will it come out more gooey when cooked???
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Hello,
Adding more butter will not achieve this, maybe undercooking it by a few minutes will leave it gooey in the middle.
Hope this helps,
Happy Baking!
Ingredients
- 200g Allinson's Plain White Flour
- 200g Silver spoon granulated sugar
- 100g Butter (unsalted)
- 50g Cocoa powder
- 200g Allinson's Plain White Flour