Frozen Peppermint Crisp tart

It is not easy to describe a frozen Peppermint Crisp tart. You can think of it as crunchy mint ice cream, or as peppermint ice cake, or as slices of heaven, or perhaps slices of pure evil. It depends on your point of view. Perhaps you should try it and see for yourself.

As with all traditional recipes – even ones that became traditional quite recently – there are many variations. We like this variation, because it is a little bit less sweet and rich than some of the others, and also because it uses normal cream instead of Orley Whip.

Ingredients

  • 1 tin (380 ml) of caramelised condensed milk.
  • 300 ml fresh cream. It should be well chilled.
  • 1 packet (200 gram) Tennis biscuits (you won’t need all of it, but don’t sneak away too many while building the tart, else you may run into trouble.)
  • 2  x  bars (49 gram) Peppermint Crisp chocolate. You can use more if you have a particularly sweet tooth.

Method

  1. Line a small loaf pan with aluminium foil.
  2. Now line the bottom of the pan with Tennis biscuits. (The bottom of our loaf pan measures about 19 cm x 8 cm and takes three biscuits.)
  3. Whip the cream until stiff, and gently mix the caramelized condensed milk into the cream. Don’t worry about a perfect mix, steaks of caramel looks good once you cut it into slices.
  4. Chop the Peppermint Crisp bars and mix into the cream-and-caramel.
  5. Spoon 1/3rd of the cream mixture over the Tennis biscuits. Add another layer of biscuits, and cream mixture, until you have three layers of cream sandwiched between four layers of Tennis biscuits.
  6. Place in your freezer. It needs, overnight is best.
  7. Remove from the loaf pan and slice.

Notes

Some recipes suggest that you leave it outside for a few minutes before serving, but we found it easier to cut slices, with a heavy knife, directly out of the freezer.