My mum prepared chocolate brick when in Poland there was no chocolate in the shops and we needed something sweet. In my brother's home chocolate brick is a traditional Christmas dessert. My children were jealous of their cousins so they asked me to prepare this dessert. I rarely prepare it because it is so sweet and when I tried to add a bit less sugar it wasn't so yummy. I stick with my mum's old recipe, and from time to time I make this sweet dessert. The chocolate brick has, as well as the taste, another asset. It really is difficult to eat too much and you have to drink hot, strong tea with it or coffee without sugar.

Ingredients:
200g of butter
160g of brown sugar
60ml of water
3 tablespoons of cocoa
250g of powdered milk
120g of crushed biscuits
3 fistfuls of dried fruit and nuts

Melt the butter with the cocoa, sugar and water in a saucepan with a heavy bottom. Boil for a few minutes until the sugar is dissolved and the ingredients are interfused. Leave to cool down. Add the crushed biscuits, dried fruit and chopped nuts. Mix them in. Add the powdered milk and stir again. The mixture should be very thick. Cover a 20-cm cake tin with plastic wrap. Put the mixture into the cake tin and compress to remove air bubbles. Leave in the fridge to cool down for a few hours.

Enjoy your meal!

Try also:
Chocolate with nuts and dried fruits.
Sweet New Year chocolate pralines with nut butter
Homemade bounty bars