Beastly Beuno
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Curved wafer shells shaped over a rolling pin, filled with hazelnut cream and coated in chocolate, recreate a Kinder Bueno at giant scale.
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- The wafer list is butter, caster sugar, egg whites, milk, flour and vanilla extract without quantities, and the rest is 1 large bar of chocolate, a little dark chocolate, chopped hazelnuts, cream, butter and one Kinder Bueno for inspiration. A basic wafer recipe from the internet was rolled thin and draped over a rolling pin for the arches, baked with the flat base in a fairly hot oven for about 20 minutes, and turned out more like biscuit than wafer. Bridges between the arches were made from more of the dough glued with beaten egg, and the filling was chopped hazelnuts, cream, sugar and butter blended and frozen; a palette knife dipped in boiling water freed the chocolate from hard surfaces. The finished bar measured 33 cm against 11 cm for the original. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7 · Source 8
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For the wafer part: Butter Castor sugar Egg whites Milk Flour Vanilla extract
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The first pimp hurdle to occur was how to construct the all important Kinder Bueno arched shapes.. Many tools (such as tin foil) tried and failed to succeed in this when all of a sudden my gaze fell upon …the rolling pin! that i had been using earlier.. I assured myself that rolling pins were oven resistent and proceeded to drape my wafer sections over it..The rectangular base was then rolled out and both parts…
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5) And here he is in all his glory.. I think the picture speaks for itself.. Kinder Beuno is a puny 11 cm.. Beastly Beuno rocks on the scale at a huge 33 cm
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The kinder bueno is a beautiful thing to have in your pocket.. but I thought to myself one day, wouldn’t it be more beautiful if it lasted just a little bit longer…? So, with 3000 more words of a disseration to write and time to waste I proceeded…
Ingredients:
For the wafer part:
Butter
Castor sugar
Egg whites
Milk
Flour
Vanilla extract
For everything else:
1 large bar of chocolate
Small amount of dark chocolate
Chopped hazelnuts
Cream
Butter
One Kinder Beuno for inspiration
1)A basic wafer recipe was found on the internet, made up and rolled out quite thinly..
The first pimp hurdle to occur was how to construct the all important Kinder Bueno arched shapes.. Many tools (such as tin foil) tried and failed to succeed in this when all of a sudden my gaze fell upon …the rolling pin! that i had been using earlier.. I assured myself that rolling pins were oven resistent and proceeded to drape my wafer sections over it..The rectangular base was then rolled out and both parts were put in the oven (fairly hot.. for oooh, 20 mins?)
2) Whilst this was going on I was breakin’ out the choc-o-late and melting it down
3) Once the wafer base was ready I inserted it into a sub-zero environment for approximately 10 minutes, spread the chocolate on it and placed it back in the freezer.. At this point i should mention.. the recipe for ‘Wafer’ was actually more like a biscuit recipe.. so the internet lied.. but what can you do? By this point too much love had already been invested ..I couldn’t turn back..
4) Now my friends, comes the crux of this pimpin adventure.. how was I going to construct the bridge like connections between each arch?? After much thought, diliberation and consultation it was decided that more pastry would be used connect the already baked arches..using a little beaten egg as glue and a gentle touch.. There were pictures, but I don’t think my camera could handle the intensity of the moment and deleted them in protest… Once the arch part was baked it was frozen, removed, smothered in chocolate.. then placed back in the freezer…then some melted dark chocolate was used to created the criss-crossy pattern on top..back to the freezer
Meanwhile back at the ranch.. I concocted the essense (sp?) of the Beuno by blending chopped hazelnuts, cream, sugar and butter then placing in the freezer.. Once again, there were pictures..(really there were)… but the beauty was too much for the camera to behold *sob*
So then the now soild arches were removed from the freezer.. here’s a tip. A palette knife submerged into boiling temperatures is a beautiful thing when trying to remove chocolate from hard surfaces.
They were tipped upside down and filled with hazelnut goodness.. The arches were then sat on the base..and more chocolate was applied as glue *phew* back to the freezer.. 15 mins later.. the excess around the edge was discarded (yum) and..yes we went back to the freezer…
5) And here he is in all his glory.. I think the picture speaks for itself.. Kinder Beuno is a puny 11 cm.. Beastly Beuno rocks on the scale at a huge 33 cm
6) The all important cross section….. Just try lickin’ his ripples..GRR..
