Pimp That Snack

Caramacaholic

Being big fans of the site, my girlfriend and I were keen to Pimp our first snack, and one of our personal favourite is the Caramac bar. Whilst making the bar was easy to do by melting down many, many bars, the tricky bit was the writing on the bars themselves!!

Ingredients

20x Bars of Caramac (at 40p per bar)
1x Baking tin (Caramac shaped) (£3.96)
1x Set of icing writing kit (£1.99)
Total Pimping Cost = £13.95

Around fifteen Caramac bars strewn round a glass bowl set over a pan, loaf tin waiting
Woohoo! Caramacs 🙂

Directions

1. The first step was to melt the bars of Caramac down into liquid form, as we needed to make 6 individual bars (Giant) we used 2 ½ normal bars. Using saucepan of water with Caramac on top, melted down to liquid (smelt amazing!).

Pale yellow Caramac melted to a smooth liquid, stirred with a wooden spoon over a pan

2. Next the liquid Caramac was poured into the rectangle baking tin with baking paper inside (key to getting out!) and put in the freezer for 10 mins to harden up. After 10 minutes the mixture should be set, take out of freezer and remove from tin, is very fragile and can break easily!

The loaf tin of setting Caramac wedged into an open freezer drawer beside frozen packets

The first set slab turned out onto the worktop, plain pale yellow and still unlettered

3. Repeat the process 6 times (as there are 6 bars in normal sweet!) to end up with 6 giant blank bars, next is the tricky bit…

4. Next we melted down 3 more bars or Caramac to liquid and poured into the icing kit we had bought (which is very messy to do so needed extra bars at this point!). Then we had to write the Caramac logo and outline on each bar freehand without covering everywhere with hot Caramac!

Piping the Caramac logo onto a slab by hand, an already-lettered slab alongside

Close-up of the finished Caramac logo piped in icing across the pale slab

5. Once each individual Caramac bar was complete, the bars were placed together and the outside of each bar covered, and melted together using the hot Caramac to create one giant bar!

Six lettered slabs butted together into one giant bar laid out on the worktop

6. For size comparison the remaining Caramac bar was placed next to the Giant Caramac bar, in terms of sizing, it was around 4 times as wide, and 3 times in length squared so pretty big!

The six-panel giant bar with a single normal-sized bar laid at bottom right for scale

7. After allowing to cool the majority of the bar was consumed and left makers feeling sick. Whilst the making of bars was fairly modest the magnifying in size and writing tricky, so the next Pimp is already being planned.

Giant bar flanked by a scaled-up printed wrapper above and a real Caramac bar below

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