Giant Reese's Nutrageous Bar

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The list is in US measures: 2 lb dry roasted peanuts, a 2 lb 4 oz jar of peanut butter, 3 cups sugar, 2 bars of 8 oz and 5 bars of 4.5 oz chocolate, a 14 oz bag of caramels and a 10 oz box of cornstarch. The peanut butter was too thin, so a lot of cornstarch and sugar were added without stated amounts, and the contributors call the result unpleasant to eat on its own. A first attempt at the next layer failed, so bought caramels were melted in a makeshift double boiler. The layers were frozen between stages. The bar weighed 8 lb, and the 85.33-bars figure is the contributors’ own calculation. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7 · Source 8

The original account

1. Pimp That Snack has changed my life forever. I can now say “Have you ever made a giant candy bar?” and most people are like “No.” and now NOW I can be like “No, I didn’t think so!” So NutRageous is one of the coolest and best candy bar. No one has done it. So my friend Moses and I were like let’s do it. At 10 at night and with me having to write an 10 page paper we set off to the store.

2 Lbs Dry Roasted Unsalted Peanuts
1 – 2 Lbs 4oz Jar of Peanut Butter
3 cups Sugar
2 – 8oz Chocolate Bars
5 – 4.5oz Better Tasting Chocolate Bars
1 – 14oz Bag of Caramel
1 – 10oz Box of Corn Starch
1/4 Roll of Tape
1/4 Roll of Double Sided Tape
1 Sheet of Poster Board
1 Roll of Wax Paper
1 Piece of Cardboard
1 Large Knife
Scissors
Access to a large printer & computer

Corn starch, peanut butter, sugar, condensed milk, peanuts and chocolate bars laid out on the hob

2.This is a diagram of what we had to do.

Hand-drawn notebook diagram of the bar's cross-section labelling peanut butter, caramel, chocolate and peanuts

3.The peanut butter was way too thin and mushy so we add a lot of cornstarch and sugar.

Cornstarch being tipped from the box into a big steel bowl of peanut butter mixture

4.That made the peanut butter a device of torture. Putting this in your mouth was like trying to eat… well EVIL peanut butter.

A spatula lifting a huge swirled lump of peanut butter filling above the worktop

5. We then rolled it into an amazing tube peanutty goodness and wax paper! Freeze until frozen.

The peanut butter core rolled into a long log and wrapped in waxed paper

6. Next layer, we screwed up the first time, and it wasn’t what we were looking for, so the next best thing was to just get caramel already made and melt it in a ghetto double boiler.

Caramel cubes melting in a glass measuring jug set in a pan of water

7. So lay melty caramel on wax paper and roll around peanutty goodness. Freeze until frozen.

The long core coated in a smooth layer of caramel on waxed paper

8. Slather peanuts on caramel, which won’t work but I’ll tell you to do this anyways, just because I want you to suffer.

The caramel-coated log rolled in peanuts, loose nuts scattered across the waxed paper

9. Melt chocolate in ghetto double boiler. Mix in the rest of the peanuts.

10. Again with the slathering on to the tube of amazing wonder!

The bar covered in lumpy peanut-studded chocolate, still soft on the waxed paper

11.This is how it fit in my freezer after all the chocolate and peanuts were added. One of my roomates thought it was a dead animal. I told him that it was. He was pleasently surprised when we gave some to him.

The wrapped bar laid on a sheet of card to set in the freezer

12. It’s an eight pound bouncing baby boy!

13.As we are near our college getting the wrapper printed was easy in the digital imaging studio. The cardboard insert is poster board, for that authentic look.

The finished bar in a white card trough resting on the giant printed wrapper

14. We made it six inches to small but the second time around was fine. Comparison in size! It was taped together with double sided tape, and the ends we cut with scissors.

The giant wrapper sealed around the bar with a normal NutRageous bar beside it