The Last Rolo
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A large toffee centre is enclosed in milk chocolate using nested flowerpot moulds to make a giant Rolo.
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- The maker gives the total as 15,975 calories. The supermarket ingredients were a 250g pat of butter, a 250mls pot of cream, a 750g sack of sugar and a pile of 10 bars of 200g chocolate, bought after a Friday-night promise and a 3pm Saturday hangover. Butter, cream and sugar were melted with a dash of water and cooked to the soft toffee stage, with an emergency switch to a bigger pan, poured into a plant pot as the mould, plunged into cool water because it was so hot, and set in the fridge for a while, long enough for the pub. A cardboard shape was placed in the bottom of a much bigger plant pot, a first layer of chocolate added and chilled, the set toffee positioned centrally, engulfed in molten chocolate and chilled; the mould was released, the Rolo cut with any implements to hand and compared with the original. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7 · Source 8 · Source 9 · Source 10 · Source 11 · Source 12 · Source 13
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Gather the ingredients from your local supermarket:
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Pour the soft toffee in to your mould i.e. plant pot, (we plunged it into cool water as it is effin hot!).
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Total calories: 15,975 (ideal for break up/remote mountain
survival!)
Firstly get over your Friday night hangover (around 3pm for me on this
occasion) and realise that the drunken promise to pimp a snack the night
before is about to come true (yes its scary!).
Gather the ingredients from your local supermarket:
pat of butter(250g)
pot
of cream(250mls)
sack of sugar (750g)
pile of chocolate 10 bars (x 200g).
Melt the butter, cream and sugar with a dash of water.
Cook till soft toffee stage (note emergency use of bigger pan!).
Pour the soft toffee in to your mould i.e. plant pot, (we plunged it into
cool water as it is effin hot!).
Set in fridge for a while (go to pub then return).
(and start intricacies!) We made a shape out of cardboard, takes less time
and hassle when sober (assumption) but everything seems easier when tipsy.
Place cardboard shape in bottom of mould add first layer of chocolate and
chill (both self and mould!).
When set position soft toffee centrally in big mould (i.e. mahusive plant
pot).
Engulf soft toffee in ‘molten chocolate’.
Place creation in chiller (and pray!).
Release the mould and behold…
Do you love me enough to give me your last Rolo?
Cutting the Beast (with any implements you can find!).
Obligatory cross section/comparison!
