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2lb Toffee Crisp

by Tim and Hannah 12 photos Rated 77% 288 votes when voting closed

Ingredients:

5 x 200g Tesco value chocolate bars (and yes, we are cheap!)
1 x box of Tesco "Rice Snaps"
1 x bag of Tesco toffee

Assorted kitchen utensils and a fridge/freezer/cool wet sack (came in very handy!)

Ingredients on the worktop: a Rice Snaps box, bag of toffees, chocolate bars, glass bowls and a loaf tin

We didn’t really have a plan, so we just blagged it and this is what happened…..

We lined our tin with greaseproof paper, so that later removal was easier, and melted 2 bars of chocolate in the microwave.

Pour said chocolate into the tin and voila! mould complete

Melted milk chocolate spread across baking parchment lining the loaf tin, spatula still resting in it

So that we had maximum side coverage (sidage, if you will) we "painted" the chocolate up the sides of the tin as it dried (kinda dull, but necessary!)
Hastily put the mixture into the fridge, so it slightly hardens.

Then we needed toffee….and lots of it. So we melted down the entire bag of Tesco toffee (important REMOVE WRAPPERS!!) which created a very large gooey mess.

A glass bowl of melted toffee beside the heap of gold and silver toffee wrappers

Pour half of the toffee into the tin, which started re-melting the chocolate – didn’t think of that one beforehand! So we had a slight panic, involving quick pouring into the tin, and putting it straight back into the fridge!

Hands spreading a thick layer of melted toffee over the chocolate base with a spatula

Then, from our "dissection" of a normal toffee crisp, we discovered we needed toffee and rice mixed together! Sop we mixed a lorra lot of rice snaps with toffee and mixed like we’d never mixed before!!

Rice Snaps cereal being tipped from the bag into a glass bowl of melted toffee

Pour the sticky goo-ness into the tin

Spooning the toffee and cereal mixture onto the chocolate-lined parchment with a wooden spoon

and, guess what….back in the fridge!!

Then we thought we still had rather a lot of chocolate and rice snaps left, so we made chocolate-y-rice-snap-goodness with 2 more choccy bars and lots and lots of rice snaps!

Rice Snaps and broken chocolate chunks sitting in a bowl smeared with melted chocolate

Poured it into to the tin, after a scattering of more rice snaps, and….back to the fridge!

A hand pressing clumps of chocolate-coated cereal over the pale crisp layer in the lined tin

Melt down the last choccy bar, and spread it over the top of the entire concoction!!

Spreading the final chocolate coating over the whole slab on parchment, bowl of melted chocolate alongside

Then, as it was cooling (in the fridge…suprise, suprsie) we had rather a lot of goo left so….we ate it!! But after feeling slightly ill, we decided against this idea, and made crispie cakes!

Leftover chocolate crispy mixture spooned into three small paper cases beside the mixing bowl

The next day……it was ready….

The finished chocolate-covered slab on the floor next to a normal-sized Toffee Crisp bar for scale

The giant bar cut open, showing thick layers of chocolate, toffee and crisped rice

Beautiful

Then it was presented to the birthday boy!!

Happy 18th Joe!!!!

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