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Poppet

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Ingredients: one box of icing sugar, about 800g of cake covering (like chocolate, but dries quicker & shinier. Bonus), peppermint flavouring, & water. All for around £4.50. Bargain

Ingredients on a wooden board: icing sugar, peppermint flavouring, a water jug and chocolate cake covering

Tip the icing sugar into a bowl… don’t breathe in at this point.

Add water SPARINGLY otherwise your mixture will end up too runny.

Pouring water from a measuring jug into a huge steel bowl of icing sugar

Now mix. As the mixture gets stiffer, this requires strength.
At some point, add peppermint flavouring to taste…

Close-up of hands tipping peppermint flavouring from a small bottle into the sugar mixture

Now roll the mixture into an approximate poppet shape… And leave in the fridge to set.

Sliding the plate of pale peppermint fondant onto a fridge shelf to set

MEANWHILE… Break the chocolate into small pieces… & melt…mmm… try to resist eating/drinking chocolate.

Melted dark chocolate in a bowl, a spoonful lifted to show it running off

At this point it was decided that the pimppet was not poppet shaped, so it was carefully rammed into this bowl.

Its a messy job but someone has to do it.

The Pimppet then requires removal by force. Power tools optional.

Wearing a hard hat and holding an electric drill in the kitchen beside a mixing bowl

Here it is on our kitchen table… seriously though, its pretty big, weighing in at about 3lb.

Finished chocolate-coated dome on a blue plate, a small Eiffel Tower model alongside for scale


It may not look much like a poppet but we assure you it tastes like one =)

Biting into the giant Poppet, white peppermint fondant showing under the dark chocolate shell

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