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An Easy Tiffin Recipe For Chocolate Lovers
Nothing is easier to make than a chocolate tiffin fridge cake! It’s a delicious no-bake dessert made from crushed rich tea biscuits, and it’s topped with an eye-catching chocolate marbled design.
Keep the oven OFF! This no-bake chocolate tiffin is a delicious dessert that simply sets in the fridge. It’s the perfect easy fridge cake that’s full of chocolate and looks absolutely amazing!
I love making fridge cakes, especially this delicious chocolate tiffin recipe. Why? Because it’s so damn good! It’s the ideal recipe for kids, budding bakers and busy adults. Plus, whilst this tiffin recipe may not be the best thing for your teeth, one thing for sure, it’s totally worth it!
The marbled chocolate topping creates squares of tiffin with its own flavour (depending on the dominant chocolate in that section). I always go for the slice with the most white chocolate.
Why You’ll Like This Chocolate Fridge Cake
- Perfect for all occasions
- You can make this traybake ahead of time
- It’s easy and fun to decorate
- It’s a chocolate fridge cake with no baking involved!
- You only need a handful of ingredients
Watch How To Make It
What Is The Difference Between Tiffin And Rocky Road?
Tiffin and rocky road are very similar desserts. The main difference is that rocky road is made with melted chocolate and has lots of things added inside like marshmallows and crushed biscuits.
Whereas tiffin is made predominately from a biscuit crumb and melted butter base with added raisins and a chocolate topping. Both tiffin and rocky road are no-bake traybakes that are left to harden in the fridge.
Chocolate Tiffin Recipe Ingredients
- Butter: I use unsalted butter to make chocolate tiffin. If you like a slight salty taste in your desserts, use salted butter; margarine is also fine to use.
- Sugar: I used caster sugar.
- Honey: Honey and golden syrup can be used interchangeably. If I have honey in the cupboard then I’ll use honey, likewise for golden syrup.
- Cocoa Powder: My favourite cocoa powder has got to be this cocoa powder. It’s fine, so rich and compliments the tiffin so well. Tiffin is full of chocolate and honey and is quite sweet, so I find using a dark and rich cocoa powder compliments the sweetness well. Avoid using drinking chocolate as it is already sweet and does not have a rich cocoa taste.
- Rich Tea Biscuits: I love using rich tea biscuits, digestives will give you a completely different texture! I crumble the biscuits into small crumbs usually leaving a couple bigger pieces, this adds a slight crispiness to the tiffin.
- Raisins: I don’t just use standard raisins but chocolate raisins, they’re tastier and more tolerable for those of you who are not the biggest fan of raisins. You can use normal raisins or swap with other currants like cranberries to make a Christmas tiffin.
- Chocolate Topping: I decided to go with a white, milk and dark chocolate marble design. It’s really eye-catching and is the perfect way to jazz-up a normal tiffin into one that is a showstopper. Though it looks like a complicated design, it’s fairly simple to make and to recreate yourself. You can see how I’ve created this marbled look in the video below.
What Can You Put In A Tiffin?
Traditionally, Scottish chocolate tiffin recipes were made with raisins (like in this recipe). But you can change the ingredients to add in your favourite flavours or even more chewy textures. Below are a few ideas:
- Dried Cranberries
- Dried Apricots
- Sultanas
- Dried Apples
- Nuts
- Dried Mango
- Make a delicious Malteser tiffin
- Make a Biscoff Tiffin
Chocolate tiffin is also called fridge cake and tiffin cake. Old fashioned tiffin recipes traditionally use digestive biscuits, but this recipe uses rich tea biscuits as I think they taste way better. But you can use whichever biscuits you please!
How To Make Easy Chocolate Tiffin
Ready to make your own tiffin cake? Find step-by-step instructions on how to make a chocolate tiffin below. Full recipe instructions are on the recipe card:
Step One: