Maaars Bar
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Two Mars bars become a miniature chocolate limousine, with chocolate-button wheels, silver sugar details and white chocolate headlights.
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- The ingredients were 2 Mars bars, 16 confectionery silver balls, 8 Cadbury Buttons and 2 white chocolate drops. The principle was to double the length of the Mars chassis: a wedge was cut from the back of one bar and a matching wedge from the front of the other so they would join with integrity, the edges melted with a hot-water welding tool, the bars aligned and pushed together, the joins sealed and polished while still liquid. A fracture during polishing was patched with a piece of bodywork from an off-cut and welded in, then polished seam-free. Wheels were made from Cadbury Buttons with silver balls as hub caps, mounted on more buttons, fixed to the chassis, and white chocolate halogen headlamps added. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7
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2 x Mars bars 16 x confectionary silver balls 8 x Cadbury Buttons 2 x white chocolate drops
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A Mars a day may help you work, rest and play, but only a Maaars a day can help you work rest and play for an entire week… and still have time for pimp action!
Ingredients:
2 x Mars bars
16 x confectionary silver balls
8 x Cadbury Buttons
2 x white chocolate drops
Step One: The basic principle is to double the length of the Mars chassis. A wedge is skilfully cut from the back end of one bar and a corresponding wedge is cut from the front on another bar. The wedge
is all important to ensure that the chassis can be joined with integrity – this ain’t no back street cut and shut, this is precision engineering!
Step Two: A highly sophisticated hot water-based welding tool is employed to ensure that all edges are molten before the two bars are put together.
Step Three: The two bars are aligned and pushed together. Instantly the welding tool comes back into play to seal the joins. Whilst still liquified the joints are polished to ensure a smooth transition
from one bar to another.
Step Four: Minor disaster here… a part of the join fractures under the stress of polishing, but with a cool head and a hot welding tool, a piece of bodywork from one of the off-cut sections is placed over
the gap and welded securely into place. Another session of more delicate polishing ensures a seam-free fix.
Step Five: Wheels in motion. Hand crafted sweet-based mag wheels are skilfully manufactured using Cadbury Buttons and silver confectionary balls for hub caps with a high chrome finish. The hub caps are then
mounted individually onto other buttons to complete the wheels.
Step Six: The wheels are fixed onto the chassis with skill level rarely seen outside of a Ferrari pit team. White chocolate ‘halogen’ headlamps are then added to complete the project.
Petro-choco-heads rejoice, this is high octane chocolate pimpery in motion. Let the cruisin’ begin…
