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Flake Dipped/Ripple

by Tedmus 9 photos Rated 82% 231 votes when voting closed

This pimp was first dreamt up by a thread on the forum and from then on the idea would not go away
(pimping chocolate, not drubbing cockney prostitutes to death with a big chocolate bar let me make this quite clear right now!)
And so, the pimped Flake Dipped/Ripple was born.

Ingredients:

20 x Flake bars (though in the finished pimp only 18 were used)
3 x Tescos own Basics chocolate bar (these melt dreamily)
1 x roll baking paper
1 x pack of Bacofoil disposable food trays (cunning ploy this)
1 x Flake Dipped for comparison

Cost : erm, forgot to read the receipt but about £7 in all

Ingredients laid out: a pile of Flake bars, four bars of milk chocolate, foil trays and baking paper

First step, lets make not break the mould!

I had considered using a regular loaf tin but they weren’t capacious enough to contain a two flake length bar, I happened upon the Bacofoil jobbies and
reasoned a mould of sufficient length and rigidity could be fashioned from these with a bit of jiggery and maybe a modicum of pokery.

Foil trays taped end to end into one long mould, a normal Flake bar in front for scale

I was right.

Some deft scissor work and an application of some super robust and sticky tape ("borrowed" from work) did the trick nicely, a mould of correct length was
born.

Looking good !

Next step was to line the mould with some baking paper, melt some chocolate (about 1 bar) and pour into the mould to make a base.

Once this was done I smoothed the melted chocolate out to the edges and whacked it in the freezer.

Foil loaf tray lined with baking paper and filled with melted milk chocolate, Flake bars alongside

Next step was to make two large blocks of flakes and join them together, thus making one large flaky bar in reasonably correct pimped proportions to it’s
original brother.

At this point I’d like to point that I had a brainwave earlier and decided to try it out on a poor unsuspecting Flake, what was the brainwave you ask?
A blowtorch, bad move, I thought I may be able to melt the surface of each flake bar but the addition of fierce firey fire only scorched the chocolate.

Empty foil moulding tray, tape and Flake bars on the worktop beside a blowtorch and gas can

So it was decided that melted chocolate was to provide the social glue that this chocolate community was going to be held together by.
First sticking bar to bar.

This posed problems as Flakes are notoriously brittle and quite a few of the bars had broken, god bless chocolate glue !

Hands holding a thick slab of pressed Flake, its crumbly ripple layers visible along the edge

Then block of bars to block of bars.
All in all I settled on 18 bars, 2 blocks of nine bars to give a nice regular shape.

Once these had set up I joined them together with chocolate glue and back in the freezer it went.

The pressed Flake block resting on foil on the worktop, ridged and crumbly on top

So I’ve got a chocolate base and a big chocolate flakey log , let’s bring them together and cover them in something…….what’s that you say?…………..
……ok then……chocolate it is ! (Note: patriotic wearing of England shirt on St Georges day)

Pouring melted chocolate from a jug over the long Flake block sitting in its foil mould

A bit of cajoling with molten chocolate (I never considered chocolate dangerous until I had met it in molten form ,I’m assuming my fingerprints will grow
back?) , back in the freezer and we have the finished bar !

The finished chocolate-coated giant bar beside a normal Dipped Flake for scale

And the obligatory cross section pic:

The giant bar cut open showing its flaky interior, with a normal Dipped Flake cut alongside

I’ve know idea how much it weighs but it’s at least 18 flakes worth + 600g worth of Tescos own chocolate.

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