Arretje Nof or refrigerator cake

This classic Dutch Arretjescake is a no-bake chocolate cake that’s rich, sweet, and ridiculously easy to make. With just five ingredients and no oven required, it’s the perfect treat for when you want something nostalgic and delicious without the fuss.

Course Cake and cookies

Cuisine Dutch

Keyword chocolate

Prep Time 15

Fridge time 4

Total Time 4 15

Servings people

Calories 467

Author Simone

Equipment

1 loaf pan 25 cm length/ 9 inch

Ingredients

4 eggs
250 gram sugar
125 gram cacao powder
375 gram butter melted
275 gram Graham crackers or another plain cookies

Metric - Us customary

Instructions

Let the butter melt very slowly on low heat. Break all the cookies in small pieces. Line a cake tin with baking paper.
375 gram butter, 275 gram Graham crackers
Mix the eggs and sugar together. Carefully add the cocoa powder through a sieve into the egg/sugar mixture. Pour in the melted butter. Do this one step at the time to make it easier to incorporate the butter into the mix. As soon as the butter is entirely incorporated into the mix add the biscuits and stir everything together so all biscuit pieces are coated with chocolate. Put everything in the cake tin
4 eggs, 250 gram sugar, 125 gram cacao powder
Put in the fridge and leave to stand at least 4 hours or preferably overnight to become solid enough to cut.

Notes

Storing: You can store the arretjescake in the fridge for 3-4 days.

Replacing the raw eggs: if you do not want to use raw eggs as per the recipe, you can replace them with either heavy cream or vanilla custard. Use about 2 tablespoons of custard for one egg. So 8 tbsp in this particular case.

Cookies: We use Maria biscuits here in the Netherlands, which Graham crackers is the most similar. But you can use another simple cookie here too!

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