Pimp That Snack

Squiggle (over the) Top

by Jenna and Lauren 12 photos Rated 83% 35 votes when voting closed

A tendency/necessity to spend our days at work trawling the internet for hilarious websites led us to PimpThatSnack.com

A combined fondness for candy and not overly ambitious but well executed projects led us to partake of the snack pimping process.

Firstly we needed a snack. We noted that the majority of snacks on the site were of an international nature, yet we decided to go with a kiwi classic: the Squiggle.

Squiggles (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Squiggle Tops) are a delicious combination of biscuit, icing, hokey pokey pieces (honeycomb), and chocolate – blurring the lines between cookie and confectionary.

With our goal set, we started.

The Ingredients:

Cookie dough (flour, sugar, butter, baking soda, baking powder, eggs)
250ml cream
2 Crunchy bars
700g white chocolate buttons
700g milk chocolate buttons
Yellow food colouring

$22NZD =~£8.65

Flour, white sugar, eggs, butter, chocolate buttons and biscuit packets on a sunny table, tin robot standing among them

Oven tray size restrictions resulted in the decision to bake two identical, still giant but not super giant, squiggles. Nothing too exciting here.

Large baked shortbread base with scalloped edges on baking paper, small tin robot beside it for scale

For the delicious centre we used a white chocolate ganache, with a touch of colouring.

Hand-held electric whisk beating pale yellow ganache in a metal bowl on the hob

Two round biscuit bases spread thickly with pale yellow ganache, tin robot at the edge for scale

Hokey pokey. We cheated. We hacked up crunchy bars. So what. Calm down.

Chunks of golden hokey pokey honeycomb pressed into the ganache on one giant biscuit base

Chocolate coating. Pretty self explanatory.

Melted milk chocolate spread over the topping with a palette knife, bowl of chocolate behind

The next step was pivotal – the squiggles. White chocolate, piping bags, and our magic weapon – cake decorators’ pigment powder. We were unashamedly sToked with how well this worked out.

Yellow squiggle topping melted in a large metal bowl and stirred with a wooden spoon

The grand results:

Two giant chocolate biscuits with yellow squiggles on foil, beside the shop packet and normal-sized ones

Cut edge revealing biscuit base, thick pale ganache and chocolate top, a normal biscuit halved alongside

The round giant biscuit dwarfing the Hokey Pokey Squiggles packet and normal biscuits laid on foil

Haha. Choice. One each.

Dark-haired woman in a purple dress biting into the giant squiggle biscuit held in both hands

Red-haired woman in a yellow jumper lifting the giant squiggle biscuit to her open mouth

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