Pimped Bake Off

By on April 24, 2012 in Pimped Snack, Snacking

Some enthusiastic pimping fans recently informed us via Twitter that they’d recently held a pimped snack bake-off at their workplace. Here follows their incredible efforts!

“We stumbled across the ‘Pimp that Snack’ website when taking part in a previous bake off. We decided to set everyone the challenge of making our own pimped snack, and held a ‘pimp that bake off’ which took place today. We spent the few weeks running up to the momentous day discussing our bakes and what snacks we wanted to take on. After lots of research and looking on your website we settled upon the following..

Sarah West = Giant Colin the Caterpillar Cake – pimped to 10 x bigger than original size

Rebekah Garcha = Giant Double Decker – pimped to 12 x bigger than original size

Ian McDuff = Giant Egg Custard – pimped to 20 x bigger

Alex Green = Giant Jaffa Cake – pimped to 35 x bigger

Matt Blake = Giant Toffee Crisp – pimped to 42 x bigger

Paula Ainsworth = Giant Jammy Wagon Wheel 47 x bigger

Kris Harwood = Giant Kit Kat Chunky 76 x bigger

Peter Tasker = Giant Scone 118 x bigger

Danielle Bushell = Giant French Fancy 146 x bigger and WINNER OF THE BAKEOFF!

Craig Parry = Giant Ginger Crunch 250 x bigger

We have had the best day ever in work this morning, tasting and scoring everyones pimped snack.”.

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Simple Pimp: Cadbury Snaps

By on April 3, 2012 in Pimped Snack

Another simple pimp from the archive today!

Ingredients:

500g chocolate
2 people
gravity
choco snaps
real snaps for comparison

Inspired by many of the fantastic pimps and with far too much spare time, we came up with the slightly simple, but still awesome pimped out Cadbury’s Snap, Milly and James’ version!

We started out with a brief trip to our local Tesco, and bought 3 bars of their own brand milk chocolate. We got home, and realised we had no crunchy bits, but a quick raid of the little brother’s cereal stash revealed the much loved Choco Snaps and we were back in the game.

First came the melting of the chocolate…

This required approx 500g of chocolaty goodness melted over water! Whilst this was melting, we planned the shaping technique, but to no avail… we needed to form the identical shape and with our only idea being to hold it like that till it dried, our master plan wasn’t looking too good.

Once melted we poured the choc on to some good ol’ greaseproof, and then, with the help from our great friend gravity, managed to ease and pour it round into a rough oval. (no pictures of the action, if either of us had let go for a second this baby would have been all over the floor!)

We let it set for a while, (which we spent doing the obvious, making our names out of spare melted chocolate…) and then out came the co-co pops, well, choco snaps – same diff. with a rough sprinkling our flat shape was beginning to resemble the snaps we left around to inspire and work from.

While we let it set some more we pondered about the shape, as we still had no way of shaping this bad boy- till thought struck. Parents having recently bought new bathroom bins, to go in the “it’ll be finished anytime soon” en-suite we quickly snaffled one and got to work. laying our cooled monster complete with its greaseproof bed on the inside of the cylinder we knew we had got it.

A slight relocation of vegetables and a few hours in the fridge later, and there we have our pimped out, 45cm long, snap.

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Simple Pimp: Milky Way Magic Star

By on March 29, 2012 in Pimped Snack

Once upon a time we had a Simple Pimp section for very small projects that were sent to us but didn’t have much of a description or very many images. Those pimps were lost in subsequent versions of the site but we’ve decided to bring them back one at the time on the blog for your viewing pleasure!

For this Pimp you will need 2-3 big 400g bars of chocolate. You should be able to pick these up quite cheap.

This is the trickiest part, making a suitable mould. I made one using strips of card with the dimensions:

Length = 10cm

Width = 3cm

For a 5 pointed star you shall need 10 of these. Then stick them together like in the picture

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To create the sloping effect you can do what you want. What I did was just put a diagonal strip of card touching the bottom at the end of the point which went up towards the middle. It’s hard to explain so feel free to look at the picture.

Now your on the last legg. Basically just melt the chocolate and pour it into the mould, But make sure the mould is firmly taped onto a plate or something.

Now just let it set for however.

Et Voila. Just take off the mould and you have a very big, solid chocolate star. Next to the real magic stars, they really don’t look all that magical. Just scoff it down and feel very ill.

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