What is Chocolate Concrete? $2 Dessert
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Chocolate Concrete is a beloved British dessert or pudding served in school lunches in the 1970s-1980s. Let's make some!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
0:06 Sponsorship.
1:16 What is chocolate concrete?
2:47 Starting the recipe.
3:04 Lining pan with parchment.
4:23 Mixing ingredients.
7:11 Pressing it into the pan.
9:44 Baking instructions.
10:22 Making custard.
14:14 Sprinkling sugar.
16:44 Taste test.
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I was a bit surprised when the "frames not analyzed for stabilization" notification popped up (13:57). I thought it was something to do with my computer😆
I'm realizing after almost 24 years of my life, "tubby custard" was referencing a real life British kid's food. Bro my mind is blown I don't think anyone is going to realize how major this is going to be for some of us lmao.
Lol the teletubbies, I never really thought of that 😮
My eldest is 26 and loved the Teletubbies when she was a baby. ❤️
@@Stephmae73 A late 90s kid's staple in my opinion! Some may consider it one of those "weird" children's shows these days but it was very special for us back then.
@@justapurplerock, It was always weird. That doesn't mean we didn't watch it, but it was weird. Lol
31 years here lol
I have some fun facts about Bird's custard since it originally came from the city I was born, Birmingham. The creator Alfred Bird wanted to make an egg free custard for his wife who was allergic to eggs. The old factory has since been converted and is now full of independent shops, restaurants, pop ups, and studios, but is still called "the custard factory".
I picked up some Bird's (not a common thing in the US), a few years ago to make an "authentic" trifle. (I think I wanted it for something else, as well, but I can't remember what. Maybe to go with fish fingers? ;) ) Was pleasantly surprised by the result.
My daughter went to a special school in Cockerham that apparently used to belong to the bird family as their home. Crookhey Hall it's called.
Lived most of my life in Birmingham and never knew Bird's custard was made here??
Wait Birmingham in AL or Birmingham in another country?
@@shereviews8999 the original Birmingham
Hi emmy! Lovely video as always. I believe there may be an editing mistake starting at 13:56. It is a blue bar saying “New Frames Need analyzing, click analyze” and it lasts for about 6-10 seconds. I haven’t seen any comments on it so maybe it’s just me though!
Nope, I saw it too!
I was going to ask about it 😅
I came here to comment this
Yeah, it's what happens when you use image stabilization in Adobe Premiere, but then change the length of the clip.
As an editor I see them a lot, and it gave me a chuckle to see them make it to the final product.
As a note, Premiere will pop up a warning when you hit Export and there's either unanalyzed frames, or unlinked media.
And, it's a good idea to go check all the clips with warp stabilizer on them.
Also scrolled down here to see if anytone else noticed!
We certainly never had the custard made with strawberry milk it was just food colouring. You should do a whole series of old British school desserts, you’ll be amazed 😂😅
at my primary school we used to have it with mint flavoured custard instead of pink custard
@@ghoulzexz5135 ooh yum!
@@ghoulzexz5135 i literally just mentioned that myself but just spotted your comment. Do u remember cornflake cake too?
The pink custard was just strawberry or raspberry blancmange with extra milk.
@@Lacieluxe I had cornflake pie with custard 😋
At 13:57 there's a blue bar with editing text on it- also, Beanz!
Anyone else notice how Emmy does this? First bite: “Mmm? 🤔” Second Bite: “Mmhmm. 🤨” “Yeah. 🙂”
The pink custard takes me back to my school dinners as a child in England. We were convinced it tasted like strawberry but looking back I don’t think it did 😂 thank you for my little trip down memory lane, as kids we lived for pink custard day!!
Isn't it funny the flavor associations we have with colors?
@@emmymade absolutely! I think if the pink custard was deliberately made to taste of something entirely different our brains would initially taste it as strawberry 😁
I'm in the UK and according to my old dinner ladies from the 80's the pink custard was in fact strawberry blancmange. It's the same as custard powder and yes it was strawberry flavoured.
We never got pink custard!🤔😟😭
Also from the UK, and the pink custard where I grew up (in the 80s in Yorkshire) was not strawberry flavoured, in fact it barely tasted of anything at all - not even custard. The chocolate concrete was also rock hard so I suspect a different and probably far cheaper recipe must have been used. Still, we all loved it, especially compared to frogspawn (tapioca pudding) or glue (semolina pudding) which were also on the pudding rotation.
Even though I'm an American, my favorite dessert growing up was something my grandmother made called "puddin' and sauce". The 'pudding' part is a yellow cake made with one egg and self rising flour and the 'sauce' part is a chocolate pudding-like sauce or chocolate gravy that was served over the top of a piece of the cake. I still make it fairly often. Edit to include cake recipe as I have it: Oven at 350 degrees, grease and flour a cake pan. In a bowl, mix 1/3 cup oil, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup self-rising flour, and enough milk to make a batter. Pour into prepared pan, bake in oven until toothpick comes out clean or middle top springs back when touched. Any chocolate gravy recipe will do for a topping, also lemon curd or jam and whipped cream. Depending on the ingredients I have on hand, I make chocolate gravy with cocoa powder, sugar, cornstarch or flour, water or milk, pinch of salt. Cook until thick stirring constantly, remove from heat add some vanilla or almond extract and a bit of butter. Serve it warm over the cake.
I'd really love the recipe for this!
Me too!
That was a staple at out house as well..raised by my grandparents..gram was a hard times food genius
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Hi Emmy! Idk if you noticed it but around 14:04 there are these pop ups from maybe editing about new frames needing analyzing. And it flashes for a few seconds. But amazing fun video as always!
If you ask for a chocolate concrete in the mid west you'll get a thick custard based ice cream milkshake that is incredibly rich I can only eat a small one and I have quite a sweet tooth. Fun video, gonna have to try this sometime.
Mmm...yes, please. 🙋🏻♀️
Culver's noms
@@neweyeswideopenCulver's noms indeed.
That's called a concrete mixer and can come in any flavor though
Ted Drew's 🤤
Tragically we had chocolate custard at our school rather than pink (and it was a lot thicker), I always assumed the crunch was shortbread and have lamented at never finding a shortbread with the right texture, so I am very grateful to find out how I might recreate that 2002 vibe!
I grew up eating chocolate crunch, in primary school it was served as a dessert with custard and in highschool it was served without custard as a morning snack, along with shortbread biscuits etc, but I most remember it being served with green mint custard, not pink strawberry. So I guess even in the UK there's regional variations. Definitely not healthy to be eaten everyday but they were a comforting constant when dealing with the craziness of high school and all the changes that happen along with it. Chocolate crunch was the only thing that stayed the same, day in day out 💚
Aww...I'm glad you have fond memories of it. Mint custard, though?🤔
@@emmymade Oh my god, warm mint custard on a homemade simple choc sponge cake is the best! You HAVE to try it lol
I'm from the UK and I remember having it with mint custard....it was literally the best thing ever. Might make it for my kiddles tonight actually 😋
I am now wondering if this is part of the north/south divide XD Were you in the north?
@@emmymade Is there a recipe available?
Britain does have a specific dessert called 'pudding'. It's a sort of cake which is either steamed or boiled, often in a cloth bag. There are many variations on this idea, the most common of which is probably the Christmas pudding. The amusingly-named Spotted Dick is made in a similar manner.
But yes, we also use 'pudding' as a generic word that means 'dessert'.
Correct me if I'm wrong as I am not native but have been living in the UK with my British husband. I always feel the word pudding is more an umbrella term for the course other people use "dessert" for. So I would call this a cake of some sort but not pudding. But if we are in a restaurant I'd say "what will we have for pudding". The individual dish however I would call by what it is. So when she said this is a British pudding it sounded not quite right for some reason. Maybe it's because many types of puddings are now eaten as snacks 😂
@@thesupergreenjudy It's sort of both. It can refer to both a specific dessert like the og comment said (eg sticky toffee pudding, Christmas pudding) but can also refer to desserts in general.
@@drghostduck Yes but in your example the recipes already come with "pudding" in the name. Would you refer to a brownie as a pudding even though you might have it for pudding? ;-)
@@thesupergreenjudy It means a whole list of things.
1. The dessert course in general
2. A specific kind of food that is often starchy and roughly round. This can be sweet as in a Christmas pudding, or savoury like a filled meat pudding. They are usually retro, warm and filling (although a Summer Pudding is an exception - being relatively light and chilled)
3. Taking the savoury idea to its limit gives you ‘black pudding’, which is a kind of blood sausage.
4. Even further is ‘yorkshire pudding’, which is roughly similar to a Dutch baby, or large popover. A light pancake batter baked in hot fat so it rises into a light and crisp pastry-like side dish.
It’s a little like how ‘apple’ used to be the generic name for fruits in general, and became more specific over time - the main remaining theme seems to be the carb content and the rounded shape. There are probably other examples I have missed!
@@thesupergreenjudy as an English guy I refer to all desert as pudding, whether it be a brownie/cake or jelly etc.. I’d even say icecream is pudding as long as you have it after dinner/ whatever meal. Not sure if it’s correct but it’s the language I was raised around. Random point but as a child I always got confused when Americans would exclusively refer to the custard looking desert as pudding because I always assumed it was a general word for the sweet dish after your meal.
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I work in a nursing home as a Dietary Aide, as such I get to make all the desserts. The little tehehe you made when mixing with your hands is TOTALLY me at work when cooking 🥰 I love desserts lol and I love watching your channel, your enthusiasm is incomparable ❤
Not just the 70’s and 80’s! We had this in primary school when I was there in the early 2000’s! I will say we never had strawberry flavoured custard with it though, it was just vanilla dyed pink for reasons unknown…😅
I grew up in the 70s with this dessert. It is actually nicknamed chocolate concrete because it used to be absolutely hard and difficult to break apart which is where the concrete idea came in. The custard was essential because otherwise any attempt to break it up with sand the dish flying across the room! The custard helped to soften it. Originally the custard was plain yellow but some places made it pink.
I guess the softer version is a modernised version of this desert. Glad you learned to make it it has always been a UK favourite exclamation mark
I can see both your use of voice typing and your enthusiasm over the nostalgia in here; I'm so glad Emmy brought back happy memories for you!
This brings back fantastic memories from our lunchtimes at school. As a little’un you would really have to put all your weight behind digging your spoon into the hardest chocolate substance known to man. You’d end up loosing half the slice while trying to get a spoonful but the reward far outweighs the risk!😂
I’m 28 and I remember looking forward to this in school omg. Back in 2000 my mum told me to get the recipe, I begged one of the lunch ladies for the recipe for weeks and she finally wrote it down for me. I still have that same classic recipe from school.
Also in the original school recipes they use margarine and not butter specifically ‘stork’ brand and it tastes better than butter imo.
it makes it harder and less shortbread like too
@@therehn I tried with butter and it’s not the same
Anyways schools, shops or commercial establishments never use expensive butter. It is always margarine. Worst may even be Tallow, lard etc...
i’m not from the uk but my dad is originally from wales and every so often he makes a vanilla cake with white icing and sprinkles and calls it old school cake and that is super delicious
Love that!! You should ask your dad to write you the recipe so you can always have it :) ❤
This brought back a core memory of getting a cake like you described at primary school bake sales...
Oh my lord, I'd forgotten the vanilla sprinkles cake! We had it in Devon too!
That's a birthday cake.
@@sunnie734 it has no filling it’s one thick cake layer with icing on top
Emmy, as an American who's married to a Brit there is no end to the interesting and unexpected differences in the different terms we have for the same things. I just end up using the British versions 🤣
You would likely enjoy checking out Lost In the pond. It is a Brit now in the US he is quite funny about the differences.
@@jenna6149 thank you! I will check it out!
If you're going to start the stroll through uk primary school puds would definitely do aussie crunch, treacle sponge and school cake too. But the ultimate is butterscotch tart 😍 was always served with a blob of stabilised cream on top and chocolate vermicelli sprinkles. Pure nostalgia!
This was a classic at my school. Suprisingly it was really nice as a kid. Tbh I would still eat it now if I don't have enough money to make brownies
Never heard of this but it reminds me of an Afghan a New Zealand chocolate cookie, it's the same base recipe with cornflakes added, they are individual and round and don't pack them in so tightly, they have chocolate icing with a single walnut on-top, but they are dry and crumbly and without the sweet icing they are hardly sweet at all, don't ask me about they name I think it's something to do with New Zealand soldiers wives sending over these cookies during the first world war or something I'm not sure
Wait how is this significantly cheaper than brownies? Brownies are literally just this plus baking powder, milk, and an egg, that can't add more than $1 to the total cost
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 not in terms of per ingredient per serve, but if you have to go to the shops to get ingredients that can add up.
I haven't heard of Chocolate Concrete but 'school cake' was my favourite in school in England (think it was UK-wide?) and is something many generations know and love. Vanilla cake, white icing, and sprinkles. It's delicious! Sometimes served with custard too.
Have you ever tried the sweet and tasty Canadian dessert called Nanaimo bars? A childhood staple up here in the Great White North. 🇨🇦❄️
I use salted butter in everything instead of unsalted butter. I just omit any additional salt that might be in a recipe. I feel like things taste better with salted butter the unsalted. I understand why people say not to, because you want ro control the level of salt in a recipe, but I think chocolate chip cookies taste better with salted butter and also so many other things.
Especially when unsalted butter costs more!
Agreed I always use it in all sweet recipes , it balances the sweetness & makes the flavour more interesting.
Emmy has a way of being authentically whimsical and simultaneously very practical and informative. It is a great combination. Love the lighting and atmosphere. 😌✨
Also agree that there are so many reasons to love parchment paper. It is so helpful in so many ways - I never like to be without it in the kitchen.
i adore the sheer accidental chaos of this video, from the chapters having been slightly off to the unanalyzed frames, not to mention the food looks really good..... 10/10 video but like genuinely
super cute!! those timestamps seem wrong though LOL
I know this sounds funny, but that pink sauce reminds me of the Telly Tubbies kids show. They ate Tubby custard which was a pink custard. Lol maybe the creators were thinking back to thier school days.
Thanks to whoever suggested this to Emmy - was a real stroll down memory lane. I remember the smell of this permeating the canteen and asking the dinner lady to give me the custard skin (to the disgust of many friends). ❤
I loved the custard skin too! :)
I make cooked instant pudding and pour it into a sheet pan to get maximum skin! Everyone else thinks ots gross and it's the only part worth it to me.
I like semolina porridge with lumps and come to think of it, I kind of like the skin on it too.
Oh my goodness, custard skin!! What a delightful memory😍I’m from the UK and most of the kids I went to school with absolutely loved the custard skin. In fact, whoever was “lucky” enough to find it in their bowl would often shout “YESSSSS!!” like they’d won the lottery. It’s funny because it’s the kind of thing that as an adult, you’d probably complain about finding in your food. There’s definitely a lesson on perspective & gratitude in there somewhere.
@@bellakoko4558 It sounds like I definitely went to the wrong school! Yes, although still find it difficult to every complain about food when i'm out - perhaps another uniquely Brit trait, saying the food is "great" when indeed it is cold, has hair in it and tastes like it's a day old. I'm not sure if they still serve this in primary/junior school (losing out if not), but there's also something about growing up in a generation of abundance. I imagine children's tastes have greatly evolved - it's no longer chocolate brick and pink custard, but chocolate fondant with creme anglaise 😅
A school lunch favourite. Served with pink custard, mint custard or just enjoyed on its own. ❤️❤️
A friend still blames this on weight gain, despite the fact we left school 35 years ago.
Another special is chocolate toothpaste cake! 🤣🤣
I need to know more about this toothpaste cake 😂😂😂
Toothpaste cake?!
@@emmymade if you want something really different, a Bedfordshire clanger is a sweet and savory pastry. It's meat & potato one end and sweet fruit the other end. A real traditional delicacy from this part of England.
@@emmymade think my reply vanished. 😳 It's a pastry tart with chocolate filling. Sticks to the teeth like toothpaste 🤣
@@MummaQuan it's a pastry tart with really gooey chocolate filling. It uses milk powder for extra calcium. 🤣. It's a special thing they served where my husband went to school.
I remember our dinner ladies making a chocolate sponge with pink custard, not concrete! Looks tasty though and takes me back (some considerable time 😉)
I remember having this at school but we had it with mint custard. It was delicious. In fact all the puddings I had at school were really good. Look up mint custard because it was epic!! I’m from the UK and was at school in the ‘70-‘80s btw😀
It was always served with mint custard at my school too. And you're right - it was delicious. Mint custard was just the best. I was also at school in the 70's-80's and always say the best thing about it was the puddings! 😀
I remember mint custard too in the 00s, they must have a secret recipe book.
I had mint custard with what I think was chocolate cake in the almost mid-00's
Scrolled a long way to find this comment! Def mint custard in Yorkshire in the late 80s!
In my school we had these with banana custard and between that and strawberry, the banana paired much better in flavour. So good. Also we had a ‘white chocolate’ version of this in the same way you have a blondie and a brownie. Instead of cocoa powder it was just vanilla and milk powder, and some white chocolate chips strewn in. The white chocolate chips would stay as whole chips instead of melting all the way through like a cookie and that helped give it that firm texture.
I'm 31 and born in the UK, this is so nostalgic! Thank you Emmy❤️
Omg you finally made it 😍 this made me so happy! Chocolate crunch and pink custard was my favourite school pudding growing up. I have since made this but the recipe I used called for an egg to be added to the mixture also, and I added the sugar and water sprinkled on top prior to baking.
The only major difference here is the custard and I'm sorry Em but for that truly authentic experience 🥰 you have to use a packet mix for raspberry blamange. It's like a set custard dessert but you just use it hot instead, the raspberry flavour is subtle but goes much better with the Chocolate.
This video made my heart so happy 😊 ❤️ really enjoyed watching it!
I'm from the UK, and I've never seen chocolate concrete, feel like I've missed out! I've not seen pink custard since my primary school days in the 80s, we used to have it over a vanilla sponge cake, that was baked in a large tray, with strawberry jam and desiccated coconut on top. I think it was just regular custard, dyed pink!
You 1000% missed out!
I grew up eating this at primary school in the UK, it was so rock hard even with custard you'd struggle to break it up with all the strength you had!
Chocolate concrete! I live close to Birmingham, UK and it's kind of a stereotype that we eat a lot ofchocolate concrete. We used to have this in school dinners, when it was served with green, mint flavoured custard. It was one of the very few items I could eat and enjoy from school dinners!
I remember the green mint custard 😂
Emmy, please try the Lord Wooten Pie.
It's a pie that Was created in England during the WW2 to help ppl make dishes using the simple rations. So it's a love/hate pie relation. I think you'll like it.
Why did it say frame not Stabalized? That was weird. Anywho, this is something I'm gonna have to try because it looks really good. Did they make the strawberry flavor milk sauce?
Another question anyone know, if she has this as her you tube studio kitchen? It doesn't seem like a full kitchen in a house. Curious because I would like to have one one day
Yes, I do believe she made a few videos on her building this "studio"
I think I remember it being a shed type building on her property.
@@Thesparten45 oh my gosh how cool. I'm going to look for them! Thanks!
I loved pink custard in primary school, they served it every friday with angel cake which is pink, yellow and white.
I recently found out that Ambrosia sells tins of pink custard and it made me instantly nostalgic as soon as it touched my tongue 😍
I think its so cute that Emmy is using an oyster shucking knife to notch the parchment. Ultimate utility.
8:38 I remember having to roll out some dough, but surprisingly not having a rolling pin in the house. I looked around the kitchen and saw our wooden paper towel holder. It has a detachable thick wooden post that held the towels to the base. I floured it up and it worked beautifully. I never did buy a rolling pin.
Exactly. 💡
I have used wine bottles, cans of beer, rolls of foil or cling film, all sorts of things to roll dough! I finally bought a rolling pin after improvising for a shameful amount of years 🤣
I'm really surprised it held together because the mixture was so dry compared to a regular cake or brownie batter. Yummy!
I LOVE “sandy” foods, I definitely have to try!
If you want to bake more chocolate base cake, you should bake swedish stickycake(kladdkaka). One of first thing you learn how to bake in Sweden and it is so good! If you want a recipe let me now☺️
I would love the recipe. It sounds delicious 🙂
She made a video on kladdkaka!
@@lish8591 It really is. Do you know how to measure in liters and grams?
@@skeletongue. I dig not know that. Thanks for letting me know😊
@@lisaaxelsson4808 I can convert the measurements.
when i was in primary school i used to eat my chocolate concrete thingy with a glass of milk and it was so good.
7:14!!!! Such a great trick for pressing the crumb mixture flat and beautiful! I love learning tips and tricks for cooking and the kitchen area in general. Thanks very much Emmy ! After all these years you still come up with new things to share that are actually possible in a common household. Love you and your channel ‼️❣️❣️
I see you're a fan of Gunnar Deatherage. I read the 'flat and beautiful' in his voice. 😁
@@sapphireseptember not shy to admit that! I Love that guy! I also heard his voice as I typed lol
@@tracyrobinson9442 Awesome! I love his channel! He makes such beautiful things. 😊
Hi Emmy, the timestamps aren't correctly labeled for this video. They seem to be for your video on last minute Halloween snacks
I used to love chocolate crunch at school and I've made it at home many times, yummy simple treat. Nice to see you make it 💜
Yes!! I used to eat this all the time at school, though this was in the early-mid 2000s/2010s. My mum was actually a dinner-lady at my school so we used to eat it at home a lot, too (it came in these big bags, pre-mixed, that my mum would bring home from work.) Haven't had it in many years but it was always one of my favourites 🥰 I hated custard as a kid, so I always ate it plain, but I think I just missed the pink custard craze 😅ours was just plain yellow.
We also used to have these rice krispie cakes made with golden syrup and chocolate at my school. No idea if they were common in other places, but they were delicious. Chocolate toothpaste cake too, though the name always put me off of trying it!
In New Zealand we say pudding for desserts too - mostly hot desserts. For example the chocolate 'water cake' you made recently is called a 'self-saucing pudding' here.
I think it at least used to be used as a general term for dessert in NZ, I remember always asking what's for pudding as a kid
@@maeuschen22 yeah, you're right. If I say I'm 'having pudding' that could mean literally any dessert. But I wouldn't call ice cream or fruit salad 'a pudding' like I would a steamed pudding. If that makes sense.
8:34 I love how Emmy says "prrrOjecT" like the Bowler Hat Guy from "Meet the Robinsons!"
And then again at 14:59 When she says "In AWrder to hay-sen the COO-ling prrrrOsess," she sounds like she's using his accent and his drawl as well! XD
That movie just fills me with so much nostalgia, so hearing that line does too. Thank you as usual, Emmy!
I'm from UK. Its an iconic school meal dessert we call it Chocolate Concrete. But at my school we mostly had it with green, mint flavoured custard. Personally i think that the chocolste and mint flavours works best. Another dessert was a shortbread cut the same size etc as the Concrete it had pink sugar on top and we had that with pink strawberry flavour custard. We woukd often take the Concrete out of the bowl for the finner lady poured the custard. So we woukd eat the custard and then take the chocolate Concrete out with us toveat in the playground.
Emmy your warp stabilizer made it through in your video export @13:57
I loved this at school haven't had it in yonks might have to make some don't know about the pink custard though we always had it wirh regular custard, literally only seen pink custard on Teletubbies.
Ooh Earl Grey goes great with the chocolate concrete the bergamot really highlights the coco, also when I knew I was having this at School I would bring some finely chopped coconut to put on it, yes I was the foody kid at School people made fun of me till they tried it and where amazed at how it tasted, thank you for taking me down memory lane im going to go make some of this right now with a dusting of coconut sugar it tastes great anyone who reads this let me know if you tried it
I’m from the UK and I used to absolutely hate chocolate concrete (more of a chocolate hedgehog kind of girl) but I would live for the pink custard. This, sprinkle cake, chocolate hedgehogs, treacle cake and pineapple upside down cake were the only good things about school
having desserts like that for school lunch must’ve been so nice, im american and we never got dessert except maybe a cardboardy dry cookie
@@juliac6256 I went to school elementary thru high school in Alabama. We had our choice of desserts, peanut butter rice krispie treats, peanut butter cookies, lemon ice box pie, chocolate pie and chocolate cake, vanilla or chocolate ice cream, . Every single day.
@@southernbellebornnbred7811 that sounds so yummy. i was in school in the 2000s so probably everywhere in the US by then became “healthy”
I thought I was the only one who hated chocolate concrete!
It took until you put the mix in the pan to realize that my dad made this for camping trips, no pink custard though, it did have oatmeal. Just the crumbly choco brick that dried out your mouth...it was so good. Edit: recipe was not this, anyone hear of chokdadhaurek? Google can not find it anywhere, my dad's recipe was lost in the cookbook expansion, luckily my aunt copied it down from my grandma's cookbook.
do you have the recipe? i'd love to see it
@@aphmaple2348 copied from aunt's cookbook card, according to my dad it started out as a drop cookie recipe but was to crumbly to hold its shape.
Chokdadhaurek
1 cup shorting (maybe replace with butter)
3/4 cup sugar
1 beaten egg
1/2 cup flour
2 1/2 cups rolled oats
3 TBS Cocoa
350°F for 30 mins
Melt Shorting & Cool
Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy
Add rest of ingredients
Pack mix in pan and bake
@emmymade This could be a cool thing to try
gosh i miss chocolate concrete! i remember how difficult it was to bite into on the edges then inside it was so crumbly and soft, i will have to try this recipe, also your voice is so relaxing!
You can see how this would be a popular institutional food. It uses readily available ingredients and equipment, it can be baked in a standard oven at a standard temperature, possibly at the same time as other dishes, it scales up or down depending on the number to be served, the prep instructions are pretty straight forward, it can be prepped ahead of time without needing refrigeration, portion size can be easily controlled, and most of all, most kids and adults will eat it, especially with a cup of tea or a glass of milk. The notion of serving a baked or boiled "pudding" with a sauce is a very old concept in British cooking tradition.
I kind of wish Emmy would put the ingredients amounts to what she makes sometimes in the description.. especially when it turns out good. This looks like something I wouldn't mind making for my dad tbh
She gives a link to the original recipe (or video), driving views/clicks to the source. That way they benefit too
Hello just wanted to let you know that the chapters are wrong for this video. They are the chapters of the Halloween episode.😃
Thanks! Just fixed them.
You serve the pudding cold, in warm chocolate custard. Then you get a spoon and smash it up into the custard. The texture is just perfect.
Never heard of this dessert before. Seems really easy to make. Thanks for showing us this dessert. You always show new stuff I have never heard of.
We never had this at our school here in the UK but we did have massive duvet like sponge pudding with chocolate, vanilla or pink vanilla custard 🤤. We never had strawberry flavoured custard but I would love to try making some. This looks amazing though like tiffin squares or biscuit cake 😋
Pink custard tends to be blancmange
@@mandimoo87 we didn't have blancmange at school either, I think it must have fell out of favour at our school in the 90s 😂
@@sazzle7470 but you can buy it now, morrisons sells it near the jelly and custard
@@mandimoo87 ooooooh nice, I might just have a look. Thank you Amanda x
This looks very nice, easy too! I wonder if a little bit of instant coffee would add just a little something something
👍🏼 Chocolate and coffee are best friends.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. My school used to often do a sponge pudding (like a square from a tray bake) with chocolate custard and that was the food of heroes 💪🏼
I loved chocolate crunch and pink sauce at primary school so much my mother got the recipe from the cook so we could have it at home for years to come. I still have the recipe now and still make it in my 60’s. Delicious
That's just a brownie in my head. Brownie and warm custard.
Like how a biscuit could be anything from a cookie to a shortbread.
Completely different texture and is closer to shortbread so no.
I've been using HelloFresh for 6 months now, I love it but I have yet to actually make a 30 min meal in 30 minutes. Lol. It takes me 2-3x as long.
All that chopping takes a while.
I just had to stop mid-video to say how asmr the splop of food colouring was! Now back to the video.....
Yes I used to love it with strawberry custard in school and if u cleared all tables for the dinner lady's u got 2 more bits for doing it
In English we also use “pudding” to refer not just to desserts buy to steamed suet puddings, like spotted dick, Christmas pudding, treacle pudding etc, all made with flour etc tied up in a bag in a special ceramic pudding bowl, sealed with brown paper and tinfoil, steamed in a pan.
Thank you so much for doing it, loved this pudding at school and you got the top a lot flatter than the dinner ladies at my school 😆 the man who invented birds custard invented it for his wife who was allergic to eggs (hence the annatto giving it the yellow) . Because of this it's vegan, just make it up with plant milk like usual and you're good to go!
I loved chocolate concrete when I was at school in the ‘70’s but ours was served with mint flavoured green custar, happy memories ☺️
I like seeing the close-ups of the things you make while you explaining texture and flavor to get an idea if I'd actually want to make it.
Did you ever end up analyzing those frames to make sure that custard is ready for stabilization? I've heard that unstable custard can cause a whole heap of trouble! 😅
lol was also curious about that intermission😂 technical error perhaps?
Love the new editing!! Makes me feel like I’m watching a cooking show 👏🏽
Custard in the go to accompaniment for puddings here. My Dad loved proper British puddings and custard so much, he was on his work canteen’s steering group for awhile because he wanted them to keep serving puddings 😆. At his funeral we even had lots of British puddings and hot custard, there was a big queue for pudding!
OMG... This brought back memories, I'm 53 and as a young child my school used to serve this... I thought we called it Chocolate Concrete because it was probably stale due to it being so hard, wow its actually a thing... and I'm from the UK and none of my family remember it.
I do not remember chocolate crunch from my childhood at all but I for sure remember the pink custard, we had it with jam sponge pudding at my school though.
Chocolate concrete seems a bit bizarre, but we trust Emmy with all her recipes. We all know for a fact she puts a lot of effort into everything she does. All the blessings to her and her family.
I swear, you are one of the best RUclipsrs
I just love this channel it has a vibe that can’t be emulated
I definitely remember the pink custard but we always had it with a chocolate sponge cake
😢Does *HelloFresh* have _singles meals_ for people who get to sit, alone, in their room watching re-re-re-re-runs of *It's A Wonderful Life* or *A Christmas Carol* and wishing it was a rerun of something more lively, like a [expletive] *Jaws* marathon?
You get supplies for multiples of 2, so you cook enough for 2 and save half for leftover for lunch.
This takes me back! I remember pink custard not being strawberry flavoured, it was just coloured 😊
I think it was just cornflour, sugar and colouring, certainly not a strawberry milk shake and Birds custard.
Had this in school but we had mint custard, never seen the pink one, chocolate and mint yumm!!
Fascinating! It's so simple i never would have thought that would be nice... Seems like something a child would attempt whilst trying to learn how to bake but you make it look so professional!
Interestingly enough, I've never seen this with pink custard. My school used to serve it with a lightly minty pastel green custard :)
your chapters are for the wrong video, i think
They’re fixed
the pink custard looks like something straight out of the teletubbies LOL
This is so nostalgic! I remember this in primary school. We also had the cornflake tart and my fave was the marble cake with mint custard!
I don't think I remember this being served at school (absolutely remember pink custard though!) but I do remember my Grandma would always make chocolate crunch before we went to visit her 😍. We always ate it cold and it was topped with a layer of melted chocolate 😋.
Omg i used to have these in school when i was young, i have been trying to find out the name for years , thank you so much for doing this video :D , i want to make it for myself husband and children
I hope it's as good as you remember it.
@@emmymade I hope so to :D ive been waiting 29 years to have it again hehe
@@Ferrinas1 how do we get the measurements ? She literally ignored you . What’s the point in a video without measurements ?
@@nadia7261 exactly
@@emmymade What are the measurements?
Used to get this at school. Loved it!
Ahh!! I was so excited when I saw this then even more excited when I saw the pink custard! Childhood time!!
Concrete does not sound appetizing but with Emmy I’m sure she’ll make it look delicious 😂