Personally I prefer the cheap own brand chocolate, couldn’t tell you why
My grandma used to make them with melted mars bars, then she’d make this fudgy topping from condensed milk and caramac bars. Probably had about a billion calories but super tasty!
I think Cadbury’s usually works really well in this scenario.
Just carefully chew the chocolate off the outside of mars bars and spit them into the bowl. You’ll need 40 bars to make 6 rice crispy cakes.
Which chocolate have you been using?
I love Aldi or Asda own brand. Cheap and still tasty.
Pretty sure we used to make it with “cooking” chocolate. Is that still a thing? I assume it just had less sugar in it. Remember it being more bitter.
Dark Chocolate, Butter AND Golden Syrup.
I think we just used to melt Cadbury’s buttons back in the day, which takes me back to late 80’s Easter at infants school.
My mum just used to melt either Cadbury or Galaxy and stick in rice crispies, very calorific but bloody lovely
Mars bars!
I like to take existing crispy cakes and melt the chocolate off of them. The chocolate has proven itself to have the experience and qualifications for the job, and I can recycle the leftover rice crispies into a breakfast cereal.
Not sure if you can get it in the UK but I’ll say it anyway. Lindt dark chocolate couverture.
Just trust me on this.
I’m quite fond of the cocoa powder version.
Top tip is to use (off brand) coco pops, not regular plain Rice Krispies. Then cheap chocolate will do – try combining milk and plain.
Mars Bar melted is rather nice, thank me later.
Old Jamaica
Milky bar
Cadburys Bournville or aldis dark chocolate. Add a golden syrup/maple syrup for the extra sugar if you want them sweeter
I usually go half dark, half milk (normally the supermarket’s own brand) and then add cinnamon and a good pinch of salt.
Mars bars are the best to use but add a little milk like a splash when melting or theyre forever chewy.
I use hot chocolate powder (dairy milk) with golden syrup
Cheap dark chocolate!!!
Aldi cooking chocolate.
You want cooking chocolate. Go get some own brand from all the supermarkets, and the branded stuff like Oetker, and have a crispy off.
(I personally find the syrup variation far too sickly. A solid slab of chocolate at the base ftw)
Mars bars 😋
We would swap between Kellogs Cornflakes or Rice Crispies and use Cadbury’s chocolate.
Never made them with chocolate , always used cocoa powder and syrup
Sainsburys 55% dark milk and 80% dark chocolate (actually the milk/dark chocolate from M&S was as good, but the mortgage didnt get paid that month after this)
Butter and Golden syrup for that full extension of your pancreas’ ability to create insulin
Tesco Miss Molly’s Cheap chocolate, melt it, then throw in a table spoon of smooth Peanut butter and melt that into it
My mum tended to use Bournville chocolate for that sort of thing.
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Personally I prefer the cheap own brand chocolate, couldn’t tell you why
My grandma used to make them with melted mars bars, then she’d make this fudgy topping from condensed milk and caramac bars. Probably had about a billion calories but super tasty!
I think Cadbury’s usually works really well in this scenario.
Just carefully chew the chocolate off the outside of mars bars and spit them into the bowl. You’ll need 40 bars to make 6 rice crispy cakes.
Which chocolate have you been using?
I love Aldi or Asda own brand. Cheap and still tasty.
Pretty sure we used to make it with “cooking” chocolate. Is that still a thing? I assume it just had less sugar in it. Remember it being more bitter.
Dark Chocolate, Butter AND Golden Syrup.
I think we just used to melt Cadbury’s buttons back in the day, which takes me back to late 80’s Easter at infants school.
My mum just used to melt either Cadbury or Galaxy and stick in rice crispies, very calorific but bloody lovely
Mars bars!
I like to take existing crispy cakes and melt the chocolate off of them. The chocolate has proven itself to have the experience and qualifications for the job, and I can recycle the leftover rice crispies into a breakfast cereal.
Not sure if you can get it in the UK but I’ll say it anyway. Lindt dark chocolate couverture.
Just trust me on this.
I’m quite fond of the cocoa powder version.
Top tip is to use (off brand) coco pops, not regular plain Rice Krispies. Then cheap chocolate will do – try combining milk and plain.
Mars Bar melted is rather nice, thank me later.
Old Jamaica
Milky bar
Cadburys Bournville or aldis dark chocolate. Add a golden syrup/maple syrup for the extra sugar if you want them sweeter
https://www.kelloggs.com.au/en_AU/recipes/chocolate-crackles.html
Isn’t it just cocoa?
Milky way magic stars.. thank me later
Left over Easter eggs!
Cadbury’s?
mars bars.
Cadbury simple
Add a mars bar to the melted chocolate
Cheap chocolate from Aldi’s
Galaxy…..
I usually go half dark, half milk (normally the supermarket’s own brand) and then add cinnamon and a good pinch of salt.
Mars bars are the best to use but add a little milk like a splash when melting or theyre forever chewy.
I use hot chocolate powder (dairy milk) with golden syrup
Cheap dark chocolate!!!
Aldi cooking chocolate.
You want cooking chocolate. Go get some own brand from all the supermarkets, and the branded stuff like Oetker, and have a crispy off.
(I personally find the syrup variation far too sickly. A solid slab of chocolate at the base ftw)
Mars bars 😋
We would swap between Kellogs Cornflakes or Rice Crispies and use Cadbury’s chocolate.
Never made them with chocolate , always used cocoa powder and syrup
Sainsburys 55% dark milk and 80% dark chocolate (actually the milk/dark chocolate from M&S was as good, but the mortgage didnt get paid that month after this)
Butter and Golden syrup for that full extension of your pancreas’ ability to create insulin
Tesco Miss Molly’s Cheap chocolate, melt it, then throw in a table spoon of smooth Peanut butter and melt that into it
My mum tended to use Bournville chocolate for that sort of thing.
Orange Bournville dark choc works well