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Maaars Bar

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

Ingredients on a wooden table: white chocolate chips, two Mars bars, chocolate buttons and silver cake balls

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!

A Mars bar cut open on baking parchment with chunks scattered around it, showing nougat and caramel

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.

Palette knife trimming the end of a chocolate-coated nougat block on baking parchment

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.

A long chocolate-covered slab on parchment being smoothed at one end with a palette knife

A fingertip pressed to the setting chocolate coating, dwarfed by the length of the bar

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.

A chunk of ordinary Mars bar sitting on top of the enormous chocolate-coated slab for comparison

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.

Four round chocolate wheels on parchment, two studded with silver balls as hubcaps

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.

Mock advert: the finished limousine-shaped chocolate bar on wheels, composited over a night street scene

Petro-choco-heads rejoice, this is high octane chocolate pimpery in motion. Let the cruisin’ begin…

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