2012 Cooking Club Week 25: Mars Bar Treats

neuro-praxis

Howdy doody cookeroonies! Apologies that this post is a couple of days early this week: my cousin from Australia is coming to visit tomorrow and I might not get time to post this then...what with all the squealing, jumping up and down and elbow-waggling we'll be doing to finally be reunited after twenty years.

These tasty little delights are based on the fabled Avoca Mars Bar squares/biscuits/treats. They are incredibly simple to make, but hugely delicious, and whenever I bring them anywhere I am inundated with texts the next day looking for the recipe. This is a tray of pure love. (Also a tray of heart attack.) So...enjoy.




Ingredients:

400g of Mars bars (I used 7 x 58g Mars bars from a multi-pack)
250g Rice Krispie-type cereal
200g butter
1/4 tsp salt
200g milk chocolate, for topping (I used Milka)

What to do:

1. Chop the Mars bars and the butter into cubes, and put into a heat-proof bowl over a pot of barely simmering water to melt. Try not to eat too many of the Mars bar chunks. Add the salt. Use a balloon whisk to help it all along.









At this point, the butter sometimes separates from the Mars bar mixture. Don't panic if this happens! Just use your electric whisk to emulsify the mixture for a couple of minutes, til it looks like this.







2. Get your largest mixing bowl, and weigh out into it 250g of Rice Krispies. Pour in the Mars bar/butter mixture and combine with a metal spoon, turning until all the krispies are coated. This requires a little patience. You might think there isn't enough mixture at first...but trust me; there will be.





3. Grease and line with parchment paper a rectangular baking dish. Leave a couple of inches of parchment up around the edges of the dish. I used my lasagna dish. Press the mixture into it, flattening with clean palms.





4. Melt the milk chocolate (90 seconds in the microwave did it for me) and spread over the top. Pop in the fridge to set.





5. Once set, remove from the dish by simply lifting the mixture out in one slab with the edges of the parchment. Cut into squares and share out to happy people to thunderous applause.

Little Alex

neuro-praxis wrote: »

Howdy doody cookeroonies!

Hi, hi, hi!

I'll be making these soon. Nyom!

Faith

Oh yum!

The Black Oil

Uh oh.

Aine21

Nom Nom Nom, there goes the diet!!!

Princess Peach

If you are extra fat like me, take the recipe above and add malteasers, some cut up mini mars bars, mini milky ways and chunks of twix bars while mixing with the rice krispies. Me and my sister make these using one of those Mars fun packs as well as a pack of regular mars bars

Health conscious people stick to the original recipe above, which looks delicious. You can tell yourself its healthy as you have not added the stuff I add :pac:

Dinkie

You are a god!! I regularly make a detour to buy these from avoca!!

Will definately be making these this weekend. Thanks OP.

neuro-praxis

Dinkie wrote: »

You are a god!! I regularly make a detour to buy these from avoca!!

Will definately be making these this weekend. Thanks OP.

Post up a picture so we can all drool

The Black Oil

If I make this I'll have to give up chocolate for the rest of 2012. :pac:

ChewChew

Oh my holy good jaysus. :eek:

I am all over these bad boys! NYOM!!

Tayla

I made these these last week for my sons school cake sale.

I used the Lidl bella rom chocolate, it's great for cooking with, I used half milk chocolate and half white chocolate for the top in a marble effect.

Loopy

Oh wow, my nan made these years ago and I never found out exactly, how she did it. I've attempted them and they've always been crap.
Will try the weekend.
Thanks

Mrs Fox

I am so making this today!

John Mason

currently in the fridge

ChewChew

irishbird wrote: »

currently in the fridge

Mine too :P

ChewChew

These are delicious!!!

leahyl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3IgFsEEOik

John Mason

these are delicious.

we had a dinner party last night and had them for dessert - they went down a storm

Dinkie

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Thanks - these were fab!

I halved the recipe as there are only 2 of us in the house.. and it still made 16 decent size squares!! Am all mars bar treated out, and am going to give the rest to my oh bring into work.

Sorry about the quality of the photo. It was taken with my phone.

Thanks again!

Faith

Ingredients are sitting on my counter

ChewChew

Faith wrote: »

Ingredients are sitting on my counter

Don't do it!!!! :eek:

They are TOO addictive

BanzaiBk

I made these today for a birthday party and they went down a storm.

Talk about going out on a high N-P!

Faith

Wow, N-P closed her account?! :eek:

The Lovely Muffin

Faith wrote: »

Wow, N-P closed her account?! :eek:

I'm gonna miss reading her posts.

The Black Oil

Ah, what?

Princess Peach

I was talking with her earlier this week and she was having bother on the site, maybe that's why.

Hopefully she comes back to the cooking forum anyway!

All ye're pictures on this thread are driving me mad. I wanna make some..but have nobody to share with, can't be a good move :pac:

pickarooney

Oh... I might have to reconsider making yet another batch of caramel squares for the party this weekend but perhaps I should make a test batch first

Mrs Fox

Took the tray out of the fridge.
Turned my back to reach for the knife.
Impatient husband pounced and broke a big chunk out.

Mrs Fox

By the way, this batch made 18 laaaaaaaarge treats and costed me €7.43 in total.

Stench Blossoms

How long would these keep for?

Loopy

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

How long would these keep for?

Ten minutes in my gaff I reckon!

Dinkie

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

How long would these keep for?

I made these last Saturday and they still taste crispy and yummy. I have them in a biscuit tin box in the fridge.

Made these tonight, looking forward to trying them tomorrow (bringing them into work).

Stench Blossoms

Made these last night for the gang in work.

Tried one. Didn't really like it so I tried another....and another...and another.....

...and then I *might* have had 2 for breakfast this morning

ChewChew

My nieces and nephews arrive tomorrow... So I've bought more ingredients... gonna make another batch now

Mrs Fox

ChewChew wrote: »

My nieces and nephews arrive tomorrow... So I've bought more ingredients... gonna make another batch now

They're gonna loooooooooooove you:P

Mrs Fox

Round 2.
I've just made a quick dash to the local convenience for 7 mars bars, a block of butter and 2 large bars of milk chocolate.
I. Just. Cannot. Resist. The. Temptation.
Help.

pickarooney

These are in the fridge now. 200g of chocolate didn't come anywhere near covering them. Even 400g left me a good bit shy. I'm not sure if I spread them out too much or didn't compact them enough and the chocolate leaked through.

ChewChew

I used 400g of chocolate Too


Batch I made last night, I ran out of rice krispies so I threw in some coco pop, sugar puffs and handfuls of bran flakes. Kids still loved them and I must admit, they are just as nice!!! Nom!!!

Mrs Fox

pickarooney wrote: »

These are in the fridge now. 200g of chocolate didn't come anywhere near covering them. Even 400g left me a good bit shy. I'm not sure if I spread them out too much or didn't compact them enough and the chocolate leaked through.

That's what i thought initially but once set and sliced, I thought it was just enough. Any more would make it a bit sickly. At least that's what I think.

Dónal

Dónal wrote: »

Made these tonight, looking forward to trying them tomorrow (bringing them into work).

My work helped devour these, great recipe OP. My OH also brought loads into her work, they loved them. I'll definitely be making these again.

200g of chocolate just about covered the top of my lasagne dish btw. I used the milka with dime bits in it that the €2 shop had.

Little Alex

neuro-praxis' swan song. Bye bye and farewell! Always liked your posts. You'll be missed!

Will you still be checking in on us from time to time?

pinkieschick

OMG these look amazing have to try them, thanks so much for sharing

Princess Peach

Second I was invited to a BBQ I knew I had to make these, cause I was dying for a few myself but needed badly people to share the tray with :pac: I was feeling filthy and added cut up Twix and Malteasers. The top chocolate is this cheap stuff cause Canadians don't appreciate good chocolate, but it was ok as its mostly the Mars Bar you taste! And everyone was raving about them and wanted the recipe

Mellor

Made a smaller version of this last night.
1 Mars Bar
30g Cocopops
25g butter

Was a bit wetter looking than the OP. not sure is thats due to slightly higher ratios of mars bar, or if Coco Pops are denser - probably both tbh.

But was still amazing.

Little Alex

The rabbit got it!!!

krankykitty

Thanks for the lovely recipe neuro-praxis - and for all the contributions you've made round here particularly in the cooking section. You revolutionised my bolognese sauce with your suggestion of balsamic vinegar!

You'll be missed...

Loopy

Hah.
I just made a big bollocknaoise there and after reading your post krankykitty I added balsamic vinegar to it. It really gives it a wee kick. Cheers!
Neuro, I too enjoyed your posts all over boards, thanks for your contributions over the years.

emeraldstar

Loopy wrote: »

Hah.
I just made a big bollocknaoise there and after reading your post krankykitty I added balsamic vinegar to it. It really gives it a wee kick. Cheers!
Neuro, I too enjoyed your posts all over boards, thanks for your contributions over the years.

Had to thank this purely for the 'bollocknaoise'

Neyite

I made these, and found them very sweet so used dark chocolate for the topping to balance out the sweetness and they were gorgeous!!

pinkieschick

ok i made these and they were amazing but they did not last very long will have to make double the recipe the next time, they were amazing