Frozen Coffee Log

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 tablespoon instant coffee granules
• 2 teaspoons boiling water
• 100 g dark chocolate
• 500 g cream cheese
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 600 ml thickened cream
• 250 g round plain sweet biscuits, such as milk arrowroot biscuits
• 1/4 cup coffee-flavored liqueur
• chocolate curls, to decorate

Recipe

• 1 dissolve coffee in water in a small bowl. cool.
• 2 melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water. stir until smooth. remove and cool to room temperature.
• 3 beat cream cheese and sugar in a large bowl with electric mixer until fluffy. beat in cream until firm peaks form.
• 4 transfer half the cream cheese mixture to a bowl. stir in coffee.
• 5 add chocolate to remaining cream cheese mixture. beat until combined. refrigerate.
• 6 working with one biscuit at a time, brush one side with liqueur. spread with about 1 tb of the coffee cream. repeat sandwiching biscuits with remaining liqueur and cream, in log shape on a plate.
• 7 cover log with chocolate cream. decorate with a fork, to create bark pattern.
• 8 refrigerate overnight, to allow biscuits to soften, before freezing.
• 9 decorate with chocolate curls. cut diagonally into thick slices to serve.