Pimp That Snack

The Last Rolo

by Iain Killmurray 12 photos Rated 86% 549 votes when voting closed

Total calories: 15,975 (ideal for break up/remote mountain
survival!)

Firstly get over your Friday night hangover (around 3pm for me on this
occasion) and realise that the drunken promise to pimp a snack the night
before is about to come true (yes its scary!).

Gather the ingredients from your local supermarket:

pat of butter(250g)
pot
of cream(250mls)
sack of sugar (750g)
pile of chocolate 10 bars (x 200g).

Ingredients lined up on a table: bags of sugar, pots of single cream, butter and milk chocolate

Melt the butter, cream and sugar with a dash of water.

Cream, a whole block of butter and a heap of sugar in a pan, wooden spoon resting

Cook till soft toffee stage (note emergency use of bigger pan!).

Stirring the pale caramel as it boils in a black pan on the cooker

Pour the soft toffee in to your mould i.e. plant pot, (we plunged it into
cool water as it is effin hot!).

Hot caramel poured into a black taped cylindrical mould standing in a white bowl

Set in fridge for a while (go to pub then return).

Set caramel cylinder turned out beside its black mould, dimple visible on top

(and start intricacies!) We made a shape out of cardboard, takes less time
and hassle when sober (assumption) but everything seems easier when tipsy.

Home-made cardboard disc covered in magazine pages with a raised cardboard ring in the centre

Place cardboard shape in bottom of mould add first layer of chocolate and
chill (both self and mould!).

When set position soft toffee centrally in big mould (i.e. mahusive plant
pot).

The wide caramel disc sitting in the bottom of the black bucket mould

Engulf soft toffee in ‘molten chocolate’.

Pouring melted chocolate from a bowl over the caramel in the black bucket mould

Place creation in chiller (and pray!).

The bucket mould filled to the brim with smooth melted chocolate, setting on the table

Release the mould and behold…

Demoulded chocolate cylinder standing on a pink plastic plate on the grass, second plate alongside

Do you love me enough to give me your last Rolo?

Cutting the Beast (with any implements you can find!).

Splitting the giant chocolate cylinder open with a chisel and hammer on a pink plate

Obligatory cross section/comparison!

Cut half of the finished giant Rolo showing its thick caramel core, hand alongside for scale

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