Bryn Mawr Baking Endeavor Part 1 : Malted Chocolate Wedges

On New Year's Eve, I went into Bryn Mawr town to go thrift-store shopping. I had never been to the Bryn Mawr Hospital Thift Shop before, but decided to go investigating. I found a little gem on the bottom shelf of the book selection. A baking book! A $4 book with almost 400 pages of recipes. Delicious looking recipes. I could not wait to try a few of them out. But I was at Bryn Mawr, where the dorms only have tea pantries. So I had to make a reservation at SGA house (Student Government Association), the only place on campus with a student kitchen.

 I made two desserts from my newly acquired baking book.

The first was Malted Chocolate Wedges. I used dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. And it has a graham cracker base.

Ingredients
Generous 1/3 cup butter
2 tbsp sugar dissolved in warm water
2 tbsp malted chocolate drink
8 oz graham crackers
2 3/4 dark chocolate
2 tbsp confectioners sugar
2 tbsp milk

How to make
1) Grease and flour a shallow 7 inch round cake pan.
2) Place the butter, sugar dissolved in warm water, and malted chocolate drink in a small pan and heat gently, stirring all the time until the butter has melted and the mixture is well combined.
3) Crush the graham crackers in a plastic bag with a rolling pin. Stir the crumbs into the chocolate mixture and  mix well.
4)  Push the prepared mixture into the prepared pan and chill in the fridge until warm.
5) Place dark chocolate into a small heatproof bowl with the confectioners sugar and milk. Place the bowl over a pan of gently simmering water and stir until the chocolate melts and the mixture is combined.
6) Spread the chocolate frosting over the graham cracker base and leave to set in a pan. Using a sharp knife cut into wedges and serve.

These little bite-sized wedges were a lovely combination of creamy chocolate and crunchy graham crackers. It was a good way to start back baking after not being able to during the semester because of academia, research, athletics, and a lack of kitchen facilities in the dorms at Bryn Mawr.