No Bake Easy Marie Biscuit Chocolate Squares
Marie Biscuit Squares without egg!
I shared my favourite recipe for the best Marie Biscuit fudge before and it is the most popular recipe on my website!
I recently made these Marie Biscuit Squares and thought I’d share an alternative recipe that does not include egg as there is a risk in eating uncooked eggs.
The recipe lasts for about a week in an air-tight container in the fridge, but in my household they usually don’t last that long! The kids love them as a lunch box treat and as the recipe is quick and easy to make, it is a great one to get your children involved in the preparation too.
They will just need to have a little patience while it’s setting in the fridge…
Marie Biscuit Chocolate Square Recipe
Ingredients to make Marie Biscuit Chocolate Squares
125g butter
110g castor sugar
150g pitted dates
1 tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp table salt
150g Marie biscuits
30g desiccated coconut
How to Prepare Marie Biscuit Chocolate Squares
Finely chop the pitted dates.
Crush the biscuits into chunks.
In a small saucepan, melt the butter and sugar over low heat, stirring until all the sugar has dissolved.
Add the chopped dates, stir and slowly bring to a boil and cook for about 3 minutes.
Remove the date mixture from the heat, add in the vanilla and salt, mix through. Add in the biscuit chunks and stir until the biscuits are covered with the date mixture.
Line a square dish with baking paper.
Press the mixture into the loaf pan, flatten out with a spatula.
Sprinkle the coconut over the top, and press the coconut into the top of the mixture.
Place in the fridge to set for three hours.
It’s easiest to slice them once they have been out of the fridge for about 20 minutes.
Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
You can store the Marie Biscuit Chocolate Squares in an air-tight container in the fridge for up to a week, but in our household it didn’t last that long!
More Sweet Recipes
If you’re looking for something sweet, why not try making a genuine, authentic Dutch Apple Pie next? Or how about trying this Fluffiest Flapjack recipe, which pairs wonderfully with Pecan Nut Brittle and with a Berry Compote. If you’re looking for cake, this Chocolate Cake recipe is always a winner.
About Shawn Godfrey
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Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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