Frozen Coffee Log

Ingredients

• 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
• 14 cup coffee-flavored liqueur
• chocolate curls
• to decorate

Instructions

1. Dissolve coffee in water in a small bowl.
2. Cool.
3. Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water.
4. Stir until smooth.
5. Remove and cool to room temperature.
6. Beat cream cheese and sugar in a large bowl with electric mixer until fluffy.
7. Beat in cream until firm peaks form.
8. Transfer half the cream cheese mixture to a bowl.
9. Stir in coffee.
10. Add chocolate to remaining cream cheese mixture.
11. Beat until combined.
12. Refrigerate.
13. Working with one biscuit at a time, brush one side with liqueur.
14. Spread with about 1 tb of the coffee cream.
15. Repeat sandwiching biscuits with remaining liqueur and cream, in log shape on a plate.
16. Cover log with chocolate cream.
17. Decorate with a fork, to create bark pattern.
18. Refrigerate overnight, to allow biscuits to soften, before freezing.
19. Decorate with chocolate curls.
20. Cut diagonally into thick slices to serve.