Pimp That Snack

Corpulent Cornflake Concoction

by Von, Becky and Steph 10 photos Rated 50% 137 votes when voting closed

Ingredients:

1 x tin (or small vat) of golden syrup (68p)
1 x bag pink and white marshmallows (73p)
4 x 200g bars of chocolate (we used 2 x dark, 2 x milk) (£3.40)
1 x large tub of margarine (98p)
1 x 750g box of cornflakes (£1.09)

TOTAL: £6.88

Ingredients on the worktop: corn flakes, two tubs of Stork, golden syrup tins, chocolate, marshmallows

You will also need:

A lot of greaseproof paper
A bowl suitable for microwaves
Oven gloves (safety first)
A cauldron
About 6 spoons
A washing up bowl (or similar)
At least 3 chefs

Having long admired Pimp My Snack and pondered for hours over what our first attempt at an original pimp should be, our initial plan was to pimp a rice crispie cake. We got very excited about this but suddenly, at the beginning of last week, we were FOILED. Someone pimped it first. Not to be put off, we adjusted our plans and decided to pimp a cornflake cake instead.

First step is to assemble ingredients and tools. Ensure your washing up bowl is sparkling clean, as this will be the mould for your concoction. We lined the clean bowl with greaseproof paper (we had to do a strip lengthways and one widthways to cover the whole bowl, and used the handy lip to tuck the paper over the edges without the need for sellotape or such like).

Then comes the fun part. Break one bar of chocolate like so:

Hands snapping chocolate bars into chunks on greaseproof paper beside the other ingredients

Add a healthy dollop of margarine and whack it in the microwave until you think it might become gaseous (aka. About 1 minute on full power in an 800 watt microwave – can you tell that one of our pimps is an engineer?). Be sure to cover the bowl in order to contain any explosions of a chocolatey nature, and also prevent loss of precious chocolatey goodness.

Once melted, add golden syrup. Lots of.

White bowl of dark melted chocolate being stirred with a wooden spoon by the hob

Stir well (don’t let it set). Meanwhile, don’t let your assistants stand idle. One can break up more chocolate whilst the other pours cornflakes into cauldron, like so:

Cornflakes poured from a bag into a huge steel pan of syrupy chocolate mixture

Then add chocolatey mixture:

Melted chocolate poured from an oven-gloved bowl into the big pan of cornflake mix

Yes, it really is a two person job. We found that because this process takes several stages (due to microwave capacity and mixing stage) it was best to keep the cornflake mixture on a warm hob to prevent it from setting. Cunning. But also means you have to take care not to let the mixture at the bottom get stuck and burn. Stirring is essential.

Huge pan of cornflakes half-coated in syrup and chocolate, wooden spoon mid-stir

Once all chocolate is melted and cornflake box empty, throw the rest of the golden syrup and as many marshmallows as you haven’t already eaten into the cauldron. Stir to ensure it gets mixed.

Pink and white marshmallows dropped onto the syrupy cornflakes in the pan before mixing

Your marshmallows won’t melt, but this makes it even better.

The next part can be tricky. You must now pour mixture into mould, like this:

Scraping the last sticky cornflake mixture from the pan onto greaseproof paper below

Ensure the mixture is levelled off and spread to corners. We made a little trough in the middle of ours to enable us to take our final picture.

Next step is very important – marvel at your creation:

The whole mixture pressed flat into a large parchment-lined tray to set

Isn’t it great?

Now put it in the fridge to set. Don’t be tempted to take it out too soon. You may have to clear a shelf of fridge for it.

Once it’s set, take it out of the fridge and marvel some more, plus take obligatory size-comparison picture:

Huge slab of chocolate cornflake cake on brown parchment with two hen's eggs on top for scale

Now you may eat. We’d like to remind you that you are about to chomp your way through over a kilo of cornflakes, chocolate and sugar. Have fun and don’t blame us if your teeth get stuck together.

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