Giant Freddo
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A giant Freddo cast in a homemade frog mould and cooled outdoors in Scotland. See the original moulding photographs and finished chocolate comparison.
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- Twenty chocolate bars were bought; the contributor estimates sixteen 100 g bars went into Freddo after three burned and about one became a separate chocolate button. The planned two-hour deadline was missed, and the head broke off after unmoulding. The plan is not a measured preparation time. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4
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Ingredients: one fed up student 20 bars of tesco cheap ass chocolate, minus 3 burnt and probably one leftover to make a button….. so 16 x 100g bars cling film patience clay hairdryer willing boyfriend to drive you to tescos
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I then used the ‘bain marie’ method, whilst (at a reduced temperature this time) microwaving more chocolate, and got heaps of gloopy yummy gooey chocolate.
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back home, right, freddo mould………… ah. its a bit floppy to pour hot chocolate into and i DONT have time for it to ‘air harden’ in my short and admittedly slightly ambitious timescale!
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weight: 1.6kg calories: 8320 sugar: 812g, incidentally 896% of your reccomended daily intake mess: heaps
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Take one long boring saturday of studying (obviously 3 days before my first exam) and a desire to create a masterpiece, combine them together and this is what happened……
so, 4pm i decide to make a giant freddo, inspired by my procrastinating fuelled flicks through the pimpthatsnack.com gallery. I was aware that i only had 2 hours to do this in, as i was goint to my mate Bob’s at 6, and was gonna give him this for his birthday present.
I sketched the frog onto greaseproof paper, then used my daughter’s modelling clay (i will replace it, honest!) to create the outline, and detail. sorted!
Now i had to phone my boyfriend, and demand an instant ‘but its an emergency’ lift to tescos, dragging him from his busy schedule of man stuff, which he kindly obliged. I went through tescos and emerged with 20 bars of cheap chocolate, and a birthday card. Yes, i got some funny looks!
back home, right, freddo mould………… ah. its a bit floppy to pour hot chocolate into and i DONT have time for it to ‘air harden’ in my short and admittedly slightly ambitious timescale!
out came the hairdryer….. it worked fine! dries the inside of the ‘mould’ and it was tough enough to take the chocolate.
meanwhile, i burnt the first 3 bars of cheap ass tesco value chocolate in the microwave, as i was too busy blowdrying mister freddo. this obviously then had to be sat at the side and sporadically munched on as the process continued.
I then used the ‘bain marie’ method, whilst (at a reduced temperature this time) microwaving more chocolate, and got heaps of gloopy yummy gooey chocolate.
i filled mister freddo with clingfilm, and began the pouring method…. by this point it was 5pm and i was beginning to doubt the timescale. i had half filled the mould and now had to squeeze it into my fridge, every so often opening the door and pouring on/ spatulaing (yes, i invented a word there i think) chocolate on top of the chocolate, which had still not set.
5.45pm, i get a brainwave, and put the freddo outside, its scotland in december DUH its colder than my fridge! meanwhile, i make a giant chocolate button for my boyfriend with the rest of the chocolate, which when he comes round, he proceeds to eat all in one 2 minute sitting. eugh.
So approx 6pm, freddo still gloopy i have to drive 6 miles with it in the boot, and leave it outside Bob’s house when i go in. half an hour later it is set, woohooo!
I peel off the clingfilm and brush the creases with boiling water on a pastry brush, and voila!! Bob loves it, then the head falls off, but hey, it gave us a funny photo opportunity!!
Total cost: less than a fiver!
Ingredients:
one fed up student
20 bars of tesco cheap ass chocolate, minus 3 burnt and probably one leftover to make a button….. so 16 x 100g bars
cling film
patience
clay
hairdryer
willing boyfriend to drive you to tescos
weight: 1.6kg
calories: 8320
sugar: 812g, incidentally 896% of your reccomended daily intake
mess: heaps
