Name: No-bake chocolate and pudding cookie bars
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 1 pan
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 350 g Butter cookies; 100 g Chopped walnuts; 100 g Chopped hazelnuts; 200 ml Milk; 160 g Butter; 2 tbsp Cocoa powder; 2 tbsp Sugar; 2 tsp Rum flavoring; 2 packets Pudding mix (40 g each); 700 ml Milk; 3 tbsp Sugar; 200 g Butter; 2 tbsp Powdered sugar; 200 g Milk chocolate

Instructions

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Place the ground cookies in a bowl. Add the nuts, butter, sugar, cocoa powder, and rum flavoring, and mix thoroughly with your hands. Gradually add just enough milk to make the mixture easy to shape; the amount will depend on how much milk the cookies absorb. Spread the mixture in a baking pan.
Use a smaller pan for taller bars. Place the pudding mix, sugar, and milk in a saucepan and cook the pudding as usual. Let it cool, stirring constantly. Use less milk so the pudding is thick.
Stir the butter and powdered sugar into the creamy pudding, then let it cool slowly, stirring constantly. Spread the filling over the cookie base. Melt the chocolate, let it cool slightly, and pour it over the lukewarm pudding filling.
Once the dessert has cooled and the chocolate has set, cut it into slices.

Tip: Pour the melted chocolate in strips over the entire filling, then tilt the pan to spread it evenly. Using a spatula would mix the soft filling into the topping.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per 100 g, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 346 kcal
Protein: 4.6 g
Carbohydrates: 27 g
of which sugars: 14 g
Fat: 25 g
of which saturates: 13 g
Fiber: 1.4 g
Salt: 0.2 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Čokoládovo-krémové kocky zo sušienok – bez pečenia