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What’s in your lunchbox?
Gill Batsman, a physics technician from
Polish cake makes 40 small pieces Chesham, Buckinghamshire, says her Polish cake always goes down well with colleagues when she makes it for
Macmillan coffee mornings at school.
Ingredients
450g digestive biscuits 170g butter ½ tbsp sugar 2 tbsp golden syrup 2 tbsp cocoa powder 400g chocolate (dark or milk) Handful of nuts, seeds, dried fruit – optional Method WIN!
1. Blitz the digestive biscuits in a food processor.
2. Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup together. Add the biscuits, cocoa powder, and the nuts, seeds and fruit, if using, and combine.
3. Press the mixture into a large flat tin and chill for 15 minutes.
4. Melt the chocolate gently over a pan of hot water and spread this over the biscuit mixture.
5. Chill in the fridge overnight. Score the pieces after 45 minutes so they are easier to cut the next day. VICTORIA Foley, an infant school teacher Send us your from Chelmsford, Essex, took this photo to win aamazing photo. Victoria says: “This is the Knife Angel in Central Park, Chelmsford. It is a 27ft sculpture £20 book token made from 100,000 confiscated knives. It is touring the UK and acts as a warning to families about the consequences of knife crime. It is both amazing and scary… the size of some of the knives is unbelievable.”
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