Mint and pistachio chocolate fridge cake from Ottolenghi Simple (page 288) by Yotam Ottolenghi

  • mint dark chocolate
  • rum
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    Requires refrigeration for 2-3 hours. Can substitute raisins or dried fruit of your choice for sultanas, flavoured chocolate of your choice for mint dark chocolate, biscuits of your choice for digestive biscuits, nuts of your choice for pistachio nuts, and liqueur of your choice for rum.

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    Requires refrigeration for 2-3 hours. Can substitute raisins or dried fruit of your choice for sultanas, flavoured chocolate of your choice for mint dark chocolate, biscuits of your choice for digestive biscuits, nuts of your choice for pistachio nuts, and liqueur of your choice for rum.

  • lisanz on April 05, 2026

    Substituted date syrup for golden syrup as that was what I had - worked fine. Also didn’t bother using a double boiler for melting.

  • treay on January 09, 2026

    Even though this recipe uses mint chocolate, I followed the suggestions and used orange flavoured chocolate. It turned out amazingly good. It is perfect to have next to a cuppa or just a little nibble after dinner.

  • TonyaShaw on December 17, 2025

    This is a real winner and is greatly enjoyed with icecream at the end of a meal. I’ve also made it with orange flavoured chocolate and an orange liqueur to soak the raisins in for an alternative flavour.

  • LoveOnAPlate on December 21, 2021

    This is a Christmas standard at our home....a huge winner for all ages. I've added ginger sometimes...bliss. Converted using Gluten free biscuits for those who need and works perfectly.

  • JJ2018 on October 02, 2020

    This was lovely. It is minty but not overpoweringly so and very easy to make. Definitely will make again

  • Ro_ on January 01, 2020

    I love chocolate and mint together, so this was a winner for me. I pretty much followed the instrutions but subbed dried cranberries for the sultanas since that's what I had. The texture and overall taste of the finished cake was great. Unfortunately not a lot of my household likes mint and chocolate together, so I'll definitely try it with a different flavoured chocolate another time to appeal more to them, as suggested in the recipe blurb.

  • kitchen_chick on October 27, 2018

    Great chocolate dessert. When first mixing the ingredients, it seemed like the chocolate sauce barely coated the graham crackers-nut-fruit mix and made a loose matrix of a "cake", but the graham crackers swell while the cake is setting in the fridge and helps create the solid bars when fully set. I know some people really don't like raisins. You can use other fruit, but I also found the raisins fairly unobtrusive.

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