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    Making My Own Crunchies

    My brother, an accomplished failure in the kitchen, made honeycomb the other day out of one of his 5-year-old son's cook books. It was so good and so easy it gave me an idea.
    I thought I'd make some, pour it into bar-shaped moulds and then chocolate coat it to make homemade Crunchies for the family as part of their assortment of Christm-you-know-what presents.
    Any suggestions or ideas with regards to the chocolate? I'm not very experienced with my pudding-type cooking so not sure what to expect.
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    I usually gently melt real chocolate in the microwave. A few seconds at at time once you've broken it into pieces. It's very easy to burn or make it bubble- bit like Aero- so just stir it loads and loads.
    The nice thing about Crunchie bars is that they don't use cooking chocolate.
    I'd be tempted to dip smallish pieces in the chocolate- turn them over to set- then give them a second dunking.
    Are you going to share the recipe???...
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    • #3
      Melt some milky bars Ollie..........Make them a bit different.
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      • #4
        The recipe couldn't be easier, although I don't have the one he did, I found this on Google in an instant:

        •100g caster sugar
        •3 tablespoons of Golden Syrup
        •1 teaspoon of Bicarbonate of Soda

        1.Mix the caster sugar and golden syrup together in a pan
        2.Put the pan on a low heat
        3.Slowly stir with a sugar thermometer until it reaches about 300F / Hard Crack. I found this took about 10 minutes
        4.Add the bicarbonate of soda and stir very quickly and very well
        5.Poor onto a pan with baking tray covered with baking parchment
        6.Leave to cool

        I like the Milky Bar idea, will experiment as I can't see it being particularly costly.
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        • #5
          The Co op's Fairtrade bars are good & because they're thin fairly easy to melt.(I sometimes find with chunkier chocolate,unless you chop it before melting,the melted bits burn before the unmelted bits melt.)Green & Blacks would work too.
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          • #6
            Don't make them too big as the end result is delish but too much is sickly. I made honeycomb donkeys ago but it was called something else then, can't remember what though
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            • #7
              Cinder Toffee its sometimes called. My son-in-law who consoders himself a very accomplished cook tried three times to have a go but it didn't work. Perhaps I'll e-mail him Ollies recipe.

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              • #8
                Nope it wasn't that, it's gonna drive me nuts now.........
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                • #9
                  Got it - Hokey Pokey - Phew
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                  • #10
                    I think in Belfast they used to call it Yellow Man - but I may be deluded!
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                    • #11
                      I've seen recopies for this but they add vinegar, not sure why though.
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                      • #12
                        I found this recipe on the web:@ Hokey Pokey, apparently oringinally a New Zealand recipe
                        Ingredients
                        * 4 tablespoons sugar
                        * 1 teaspoon baking soda
                        * 2 tablespoons golden syrup

                        Directions

                        1. Bring the sugar and the golden syrup to the boil, slowly stirring all the time.
                        2. Boil for 7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
                        3. Remove from heat and add soda.
                        4. Stir in quickly until it froths and pour at once into a greased tin.
                        5. Break up when cold.
                        6. Store in an airtight tin.

                        I haven't got a sugar thermometer so I think I might have a go with this recipe
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                        • #13
                          It used to be called Puff Candy in our neck of the woods.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Bren In Pots View Post
                            I've seen recopies for this but they add vinegar, not sure why though.
                            I don't know but I imagine the acid/vinegar would react with the bicarb/baking soda and froth more?
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                            • #15
                              Yeah, that's true Manda; the kids do it at school as a 'scientific experiment'. They come home with a papier-mache 'volcano' and pester you for all your vinegar & bicarb to do an eruption...

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