Giant Crunchie
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Three kilos of sugar are boiled into honeycomb, set in a cut-down shoebox and smothered in 1.25 kg of chocolate. The maker puts the finished bar at four kilos, about fifty times the size of a standard Crunchie.
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First off, cut the shoebox in two, fiddle about, and do whatever it takes to make a long cardboard mould to give the Crunchie shape. Line it with foil - it might be an idea to grease this, so the foil doesn't stick to the caramel.
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I used about 3 kg of sugar, 1.25 kg of chocolate, small amounts of baking soda and vinegar and a shoebox.
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I knew a friend of mine liked Crunchie bars, so what else was there to do for her birthday than Pimp Her Snack?
I used about 3 kg of sugar, 1.25 kg of chocolate, small amounts of baking soda and vinegar and a shoebox.
First off, cut the shoebox in two, fiddle about, and do whatever it takes to make a long cardboard mould to give the Crunchie shape. Line it with foil - it might be an idea to grease this, so the foil doesn't stick to the caramel.
Melt the three kilos of sugar - get it really hot, and when it starts to change colour, take it off the heat. Add some baking soda - a couple of tea spoons out to do, and then a few splashes of vinegar. This will make the mixture very angry, so stir it like hell to try and stop it going everywhere and making a terrible mess of your kitchen (it's easily remedied by warm soapy water). Pour it in the mould and give it a couple of hours to set.
Turn the beast out onto some foil, and melt about 750g of the chocolate. Smother the top and sides - really go for and get it pretty thick. This will need to cool overnight unless you have the world's most gangsta fridge.
In the morning, flip it over, and smother the last side in the rest of the chocolate - again, give it several hours to set.
Then comes the eating! Amazingly, it not only looked like a real Crunchie, but tasted like one too. The only problem, was getting into it to find out - best bring a chainsaw along to eat it.
And that's how you get a pretty mofo big chocolate bar - fifty times the size and a hundred times the weight of a standard Crunchie. Weighing in at four kilos and roughly twenty thousand calories. Cor!
