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Mega Chocolate Buttons

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It was a rainy Bank Holiday Monday, we were stuck indoors and there was only one thing to do
to relieve the boredom: Get the Mega Buttons Project into action!

First we needed ingredients; We bought 2kg of good quality Cadbury’s chocolate which we worked out as
equivalent to 66 packets of chocolate buttons.

Eight 250g bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk fanned out across the kitchen tiles

To make the mega buttons we melted the chocolate using a bain-marie,
trying not to make too much of a mess in the kitchen.

Chocolate melting in a glass jug set inside a bowl of hot water, chunks still unmelted

We poured 400g at a time into bowls with a dished profile which had been previously
given a very thin coat of butter to ensure they would turn out. Each mega button is therefore equal to
13.2 packets of normal choclate buttons!

Melted chocolate poured into a shallow white dish to set as one giant button

We prepared the bag and then…

A boy holding up the home-made Buttons bag, nearly as tall as his whole torso

…after a morning of hard work [and an afternoon of tidying up and scraping chocolate off the floor and walls]
it was then especially enjoyable to relax and taste the final product in the garden.

Biting into a saucer-sized button at the garden table, giant bag and normal pack alongside

Statistics:
For the mega buttons project we used 8 bars of 250g totalling 2kg chocolate. Since we made 5 buttons
that meant each button weighed 400g!
Cost – £1.40 x 8 = £11.20 or £2.24 per Mega Button !

Statistics (button : mega button):
diameter 20mm:200mm / weight 1.6g:200g / fat 0.48g:128g / Kcal 16.8:2100

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