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Lucky Mushroom Chocolate Biscuit Cakes
Make festive mushroom-shaped chocolate biscuit cakes with orange, nuts, white chocolate and shredded coconut.
From YouTube · Jan 6, 2026
Make festive mushroom-shaped chocolate biscuit cakes with orange, nuts, white chocolate and shredded coconut.
45 min
Prep time
10 min
Cook time
2 hrs
Total time
10 mushrooms
Yield
Ingredients
13 ingredients- CHOCOLATE BISCUIT MIXTURE
- 120 g sugar
- 40 g cocoa powder
- 200 ml milk
- 60 g butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Finely grated zest and juice of 1 orange
- 300 g plain butter biscuits, crushed
- 30 g cashews or walnuts, chopped
- DECORATION
- 400 g white chocolate
- 30 ml neutral vegetable oil
- Desiccated coconut, as needed
- Red oil-based food colouring
Method
19 steps- Combine the sugar, cocoa powder and milk in a saucepan.
- Bring the mixture gently to the boil while stirring.
- Add the butter and stir until melted.
- Add the vanilla, orange zest and orange juice.
- Remove from the heat.
- Stir in the crushed biscuits and chopped nuts.
- Mix until evenly combined.
- Leave the mixture to cool until firm enough to shape.
- Divide into approximately 10 portions.
- Shape each portion into a mushroom stem and cap.
- Chill the shaped pieces until firm.
- Melt 300 g of the white chocolate with 20 ml vegetable oil.
- Coat the mushroom stems with the white chocolate.
- Sprinkle the stems with desiccated coconut.
- Melt the remaining 100 g white chocolate with the remaining oil.
- Colour it red with oil-based food colouring.
- Coat the mushroom caps with the red chocolate.
- Add small white chocolate spots to the caps.
- Chill until completely set.
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