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Crunchy Nut Cornflake

by Crunchy Nutters 13 photos Rated 86% 245 votes when voting closed

My flatmate, Gaz, and I have lived together for 2 years at uni. Everyone knows we are Crunchy Nutters. After a large one on the town, a mate challenged us to Pimp our flake. They said it couldn’t be done. Well up yours Babs, here it is. It wasn’t perfect, but we got there in the end.

Ingredients: Extras:

2 Packs Popcorn Maize 2 Eggs
1 Bottle Clear Honey Flour
1 Pack Almond Nuts
1 500g Pack Brown Sugar
1 500g Pack White Granulated Sugar
Kitchen Foil (20m)

Cost: £11.01

Ingredients on a worktop: Crunchy Nut box, sugars, popping corn, parchment and a rolling pin

First up, boil 2 packs maize for 3 hrs to soften.

Popping corn kernels tipped from a bag into a large pan on the gas hob

Roll and squash the softened maize to break skin before going in to mixture.

Crushing corn kernels with a rolling pin on a chopping board, wearing a spotted apron

Blurred shot of a plastic bowl of soft brown sugar with a bag held above it

Measure out 200g brown and 200g granulated white sugar with tablespoon of water. Add honey to mixing bowl while whisking.

Crushed corn kernels scraped off a chopping board into a glass bowl of pale batter

Add squashed maize and whisk into mix. We learnt from previous mistakes that at this point you need 2 egg whites and handful of flour to help bind the mixture.

After we smelt the burning from our electric whisk, we realised it was struggling to cope and got our hands in. Or Gaz got his in, as you can see.

Grinning baker in a polka-dot apron hauling a huge lump of dough from the mixing bowl

Mix should thicken to something like dough. Transfer this to baking parchment on oven tray.

Flattening the pale dough by hand on a board lined with greaseproof paper

Then roll it out, to required size and shape.

Rolling the dough out thin with a rolling pin, Crunchy Nut box visible behind

Slice almonds, which we used because they are bigger than peanuts. Place on flake. Add honey on top to get the honey glaze.

Spreading syrup across the thin rolled-out flake shape with the back of a spoon

Then cross your fingers and whack it into preheated oven (200C) and cook for 50 minutes or until golden brown.

Sliding the tray into the oven while a hand in the foreground holds a small flake

Then comes the moment of truth!

Blurred glimpse of the giant flake turning golden inside the hot oven

Oven-gloved baker holding out the tray with the huge golden-brown baked flake curled on it

The finished giant cornflake on foil beside a teaspoon holding one normal cornflake for scale

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