Chocolate Fridge Cake with Pecan and Meringues

This recipe serves 16.

Ingredients:

• 200g digestive biscuits
• 110g whole pecans, roughly chopped
• 110g pistachio nuts, peeled
• 10 glace cherries
• 2 ready-made meringue nests, smashed up
• 150g unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon golden syrup
• 200g dark chocolate

Method:

1. Break the biscuits into small pieces directly into a large bowl.  Add the pecans, pistacho nuts and cherries and mix together. 
2. Put the rest of the ingredients into a separate, heatproof bowl and put on a low heat over a pan of simmering water until the butter and chocolate have melted.
3. Combine the biscuit mix with the chocolate mixture.
4. Line a 30 x 20cm plastic container with clingfilm, leaving plenty of extra film at the edges to help turn the cake out later. 
5. Whack everything into the container, place in the fridge to firm up then turn out and cut into chunky slices.
6. This cake can be kept in an airtight container for a few days, and it actually improves in flavor!