When it came to the cakes Queen Elizabeth II enjoyed with her afternoon tea, the late monarch was all too happy to share the leftovers with her staff, with one notable exception. If the royal chef had baked chocolate biscuit cake, the queen made sure that her staff brought the cake to her day after day until she had finished it all herself, even sending her page to find out who had taken a missing slice. The queen's grandson, Prince William, shared her love for this unique confection, so much so he requested it as a groom's cake at his 2011 wedding to Princess Catherine .
What made chocolate biscuit cake so special to the royal family may have been the biscuits themselves: the iconic McVitie's Rich Tea Biscuits. McVitie's biscuits (the word "biscuits" being the British term for what Americans would call "cookies"), have been a U.K.
grocery store staple since 1892. These dunkable, slightly sweet treats are meant to be enjoyed with tea or coffee. Made with flour, sugar, vegetable oil, malt extract, and leavening agents, they have a distinctive malt flavor.
Adding a bit of extra crunch to every bite of dense chocolate, these biscuits can transform any ordinary chocolate cake into something worthy of royalty. Chocolate and biscuits for a no-bake cake As alluded to above, one of the queen's favorite desserts (if not her absolute favorite) was a no-bake cake made with butter, dark chocolate, sugar, one egg, and McVitie's biscuits broken up into almond-size pieces and folded into th.