Crunchie
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A giant honeycomb Crunchie made in a lined computer box, with a milk chocolate coating. The original student project records the ingredients and process.
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- The list gives 3 kg of granulated sugar, 750 g of milk chocolate, half a tub of baking soda and half a bottle of malt vinegar; the soda and vinegar have no measured amounts. The sugar was melted in 9 pans in turn, each finished with soda and vinegar and poured into a foil-lined laptop box, and one pan burned out. The still-hot honeycomb melted some of the chocolate; the rest was melted over simmering water, and the bar cooled overnight because it would not fit in a fridge before the underside was coated. The finished bar weighed 3.5 kg with a honeycomb centre about 2 inches deep. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6
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2 Bored students 3kg Granulated sugar 750g Fairtrade Milk Chocolate (because even pimps care!) Half a tub of baking soda Half a bottle of malt vinegar 1 Huge mould Lots of aluminium foil
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The rest of the chocolate was melted in the traditional method using simmering water, before being poured over the honeycomb and patterned using a palette knife.
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Ingredients:
2 Bored students
3kg Granulated sugar
750g Fairtrade Milk Chocolate (because even pimps care!)
Half a tub of baking soda
Half a bottle of malt vinegar
1 Huge mould
Lots of aluminium foil
Approximate cost: £7, depending on where you shop. Fairtrade chocolate is a bit pricier than cheapo stuff, but hey, we’re pimps and we can pay in gold teeth.
What better snack to pimp than one with a golden centre? The Cadbury’s Crunchie is bling already, but we felt that to give it that extra gangsta quality, it needed to be pimped out. This called for a trip to the co-op and a weekend of procrastination.
Such a large quantity of sugar required a large mould in which to set, so here at West Wales Customs we cut-and-shut an old laptop box and lined it with aluminium foil to contain the molten syrup. Once we’d made that, we set about melting the sugar. We enlisted the help of our ho’s (that’s housemates) in this task, which took 9 pans before all 3 kilos were melted. Each pan had to be heated until all the sugar melted, then baking soda and vinegar were added quickly and the boiling, frothing, molten death-in-a-pan was poured into the mould.
Of course, no true pimp would be without its disasters, and we managed to do a burnout with one of the pans, resulting in a new custom worktop for our kitchen!
Once all the sugar was poured, the true size of the pimped Crunchie was revealed. It was the size of a human leg.
It would make a great false leg, not only would you walk with a gangsta lean, but all the shorties would want a lick!
Once we turned out the honeycomb centre, it was still really hot so we decided to use the heat to melt some of the chocolate.
The rest of the chocolate was melted in the traditional method using simmering water, before being poured over the honeycomb and patterned using a palette knife.
That was left overnight, due to the fact that it was too big to fit in the fridge. Once it had cooled throughout, we turned it upside down and applied the final coating of chocolate to the underside.
The final test was when we cut open the pimped Crunchie to see if the honeycomb centre looked anything like we hoped it would…
As you can see, the filling is 2 inches deep with golden goodness. A truly pimped out snack, weighing in at a whopping 3.5kg, as opposed to the usual 40g.
