Pimp That Snack

Ton of Caramel Wafer

by Klimny 11 photos Rated 87% 273 votes when voting closed

As an impoverished student (honest!) I stumbled across this website with the aim of spreading the word of this wonderful “Pimpage”, in the hope that all students out there will begin to do something productive with their free mornings/ afternoons/ days (!), instead of watching mind-numbing daytime TV!

So I thought and hard about what snack I could pimp that would be both delicious and not ridiculously impossible to make… then it hit me like a giant custard cream across the face! What is the perfect, no, the ONLY snack that effectively breaks the barrier between the biscuit and the chocolate bar? And can be eaten at any time of day without being stared at by the little-uns in the biscuit tin? That’s right – a Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer!

Now onto the ingredients…

Bags of dairy toffee, milk chocolate, greaseproof paper, ice cream wafers and Tunnock's caramel wafers

You’ll need: 3 bags of toffee = 90p
400g of chocolate = 96p
2 packs of 48 ice cream wafers = 76p
Greaseproof paper (already had some)
Some Tunnock’s Caramel wafers (for reference)
Wrapper design + Adobe photoshop + time/ patience = priceless!

I laid out the first layer of wafers onto the greaseproof paper, and measured it – just to be sad! (and get the all important statistics for comparison at the end of the pimp!)

Six ice cream wafers laid end to end beside a Tunnock's bar and a tape measure

The, I unwrapped 3 bags of toffees and melted them down in a glass bowl, over a pan of boiling water (tip: add a tablespoon of water to the toffees to help them melt quicker). My mum even suggested chewing them first to get them going, but luckily adding the water worked…

Caramel melting and being stirred in a glass bowl over a pan on the hob

Then it was a race against time, to construct the monster, by sandwiching the toffee in between the layers of wafer, ensuring that every other layer is laid lengthways rather than widthways.

Caramel poured over the long row of wafers, a small layered stack waiting beside them

After many many layers later, I put the beast onto a tray and into the fridge it went (at an angle!)

The layered wafer slab on a tray, left to set on a fridge shelf

While I waited for the toffee to harden, I set to work on the wrapper…

An inkjet printer feeding out a printed red and yellow Tunnock's Caramel wrapper

I then melted the chocolate using the same method as the toffee, and poured it on the top, making sure it covered the sides – and into the fridge once more, this time overnight…

A hand stirring chunks of chocolate melting in a glass bowl over a pan

Here is the finished pimp with the wrapper on…

The finished bar in its home-printed wrapper beside a normal Tunnock's on the floorboards

The wrapped giant bar photographed at an angle with the original bar in front

…and a cross-section:

Cut open to show stacked wafer and caramel layers, a normal bar and slice alongside

I think we can safely say that they would struggle to make 4 million of these bad boys every week!!

A woman holding the wrapped giant bar across both hands, rosettes on the wall behind

You may be interested to know that while the normal caramel wafer weighed 27g, the pimped up beast weighs in at a colossal 666g! maybe I should rename it “Demon Caramel Wafer”?

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