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by Kev Chung and Lawrence Lui 7 photos Rated 49% 221 votes when voting closed

Making a giant snickers!

With bordom hitting us large and fast, we decided to head over to Tesco’s for some late night shopping… which then ended up as a trip to buy ingredients for a giant marathon (or snickers as it’s known now)

Ingredients:

– nougat x 2
– peanuts
– chocolate 200g x 6
– tin of condensed milk

Ingredients on a dark worktop: monkey nuts, condensed milk, a nougat bar and a stack of Tesco chocolate

Create carmel

As we are blokes we know nothing about cooking, the only thing we do know is heating things up… which came in handy when the guy at Tesco advised us that carmel can be made by heating a can of condensed milk (not evaporated!!!)
This advise would have been super handy since we spent over an hour looking for pure carmel that we could just pour!

Heat pan with boiling water, let simmer with open tin of condensed milk, simmer for 1+ hours or until it goes thick and brown

Tin of condensed milk standing in a pan of simmering water on the gas hob

Prep the peanuts

Since the supermarket decided to only stock up on kg bags of peeled peanuts we decided to opt for the small bags which were not peeled and were still in their original cases!!!

So whilst slapping on the TV we cracked on with de-shelling and de-skinning the monkey nuts… 1+ hours later, we were there!

Shelled peanuts in a white bowl and a mug, with the bag of monkey nuts behind

Crack open the monkey nuts and peel away the skin, repeat for 1+ hours again 🙁

Bottom layer

This is super easy… heating things comes in use again 😛

Boil some water in a pan, simmer and place chocolate (3 bars) in a bowl then in the pan. When melted place in a container and let it set in the refridgiator.

A smooth slab of set chocolate turned out onto a white cake board

Middle layer

This is were all the insides and funny business goes… nuts, nougat and carmel… mmmm

Place nougat bars (in hindesight we should have grabbed 4 bars of nougat and use the white half of them, or just make the nougat from scratch…) on top of chocolate and then pour the carmel and nuts on top of this, refridgiate again

Caramel poured over pink and white nougat inside a chocolate-lined plastic tub

Top layer

To close the whole deal off… and finish the bar off….

Melt the remaining 3 bars and pour on top… yep, refridgate again

Done!

The finished slab cut open on a board, nougat layers showing, two normal Snickers bars alongside

Serving

Defridgate for hours and cut with very sharp knife or saw 😛
(As you can see we could only cut the top layer and then had to snap the rest… hence the smoothness of the bottom cut)

Cross-section at eye level: chocolate over pink and white nougat and peanut caramel, ordinary bars beside it

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