Everyone is already talking about Christmas, so I thought I would share with you a super fun and easy treat that you can adapt for the children or the grown-ups in your life, for sharing over the holidays or packaging up and giving as gifts.
This really is such a fun easy treat to make that you might never buy another Crunchie in your life!
The ingredients are simple, all you need is caster sugar, golden syrup and bicarbonate of soda.
You could also do with a sugar thermometer for this one, but it’s not essential.
So start by weighing out 100g of caster sugar in your pan and add 4 tablespoons of golden syrup. My that stuffs sticky!!
Mix it together to form a paste.
Then on a very low heat, bring the mixture to the boil slowly.
Let it bubble away gently like this for about 3–4 minutes until the mixture reaches the soft boil stage (112-115c on a sugar thermometer) or drop a tiny amount in a bowl of cold water, (if you can squish it flat, then it’s ready).
At this stage add 1.5 tsp of bicarbonate of soda to the mixture, take it off the heat and give it a couple of stirs. It will froth up pretty quickly so don’t get scared!
I am glad that I got this in shot because it was a pretty quick frothing moment!
Pour the mixture into your prepared tin and leave it to set for a couple of hours.
At this stage I wanted to make my honeycomb for the children a bit more fun and playful so I added some marshmallows and jelly tots to it straight away so that they set in the mixture and poured a little chocolate over it.
When the mixture has hardened, you can just break it up into pieces with your hands.
This is where I decorated my pieces for the grown-ups! I did some covered in a drizzle of chocolate like this:
Quite pretty.
And for the ones below, I wanted a nice sophisticated look, so I dipped the thin pieces in chocolate and playing with the gold packaging of a Crunchie, I added a few little edible gold balls for a nice ‘posh afternoon tea’ effect.
What do you think ?
You can add anything you like at this stage – be creative! I tried some edible glitter on a few of mine.
So if you have any left, (I had eaten about 5 by now) then why not package them up in clear cellophane bag, add some Christmas ribbon and voila, some lovely Christmas Handmade Honeycomb !
I really hope you enjoyed this post and do give it a go, it’s a lot easier than you think and really quite addictive to make and even more so to eat!
Thank you so much for reading xxx
