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Retro Wagon Wheel

Yes, Wagon Wheels used to be a whole lot bigger and had two layers of jam
(if my memory serves me right). So forgot the stingy 2002 remake, make
yourselve a full size original.

Two boxes of Belgian dark chocolate, a tub of double cream and a block of butter

1. Make some biscuit dough out of butter, sugar, plain flour, golden syrup
and an egg yolk and divide into two.

Two plates of biscuit dough resting, with flour, caster sugar, golden syrup, butter and an egg behind

2. Roll em out and use a plate as a giant biscuit template.

A dinner plate pressed upside down onto rolled dough as a template for the giant biscuit

3. Bake em.

4. Make a monster marshmallow from icing sugar, liquid glucose, gelatine
and egg white. Boil it, then whip it up til it’s like double cream, then
bung it in a suitable monster mallow mold (I found a well floured cake tin
works well) and refrigerate until it sets.

White filling being whipped in a Kenwood food processor beside a box of icing sugar

5. Make a chocci sauce and buy a jar of raspberry jam (no pips please).

6. Coat the underside of one biscuit and refrigerate for half an hour.

7. Assemble the components with care and precision: Biscuit 1 (chocci side
down) – Jam – Monster Mallow – Jam – Biscuit 2.

Two baked biscuit rounds sandwiched with thick marshmallow and jam layers, before the chocolate coating

8. Render the whole thing in chocci sauce and refrigerate once more.

The finished chocolate-coated wheel on a board with a normal shop-bought Wagon Wheel alongside for scale

Approximate cost £10 if using decent butter and chocolate. It can be done
cheaper, but remember quality costs.

A wedge cut out, showing jam and a deep marshmallow layer between the biscuits

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