Friday 19 April 2013

Super Lazy Cake Batter Candy Bark

Candy bark isn't really much a thing in Australia.  Sure, people will recognise it when they see it, but it's not something that the average Australian would eat, let alone make, on a regular basis.  Candy bark is basically a base of chocolate with different tasty things sprinkled on it while it's still melty, and maybe a drizzle of a different chocolate over the top, broken into pieces.  Low fuss, great results.

This recipe goes against the grain for me, because it uses pre-prepared cake mix.  On the other hand, if you want something sweet in half an hour with minimum fuss, this candy bark will sort you out.

Super Lazy Cake Batter Candy Bark

1 cup milk chocolate chips (or dark, depending on what you like most)
3 tablespoons packet vanilla cake mix
1 and 1/2 cups white chocolate chips

Line a baking tray with baking parchment
Place the chocolate chips in a microwave-proof bowl, and microwave in 30 s bursts until the chocolate it fully melted.
Handy Tips For Melting Chocolate; check the chocolate every 30 s and stir vigrously - chocolate is very easy to burn.  Also, resist the urge to lick the spoon!  Adding anything water-based (like saliva) to melted chocolate will cause the chocolate to seize (turn gritty).
Pour melted chocolate out onto prepared tray, and spread out to the edges as evenly as you can
Leave to set for at least 30 minutes
Once the chocolate is set, put your white chocolate into a microwave safe bowl and repeat the melting/stirring procedure until it is all melted an smooth
Add the cake mix and stir briskly to mix through the white chocolate (you want to be pretty quick so that the chocolate won't set)
Pour the white chocolate mix out onto the milk chocolate layer and smooth out into a roughly even layer
(You can add spinkles or hundreds and thousands at this point if you like)
Leave to cool and set completely (30 minutes or so), then break into pieces

And that's it!  Sweet, chocolately, cakey goodness.  This can be made in bulk by doubling or tripling the ingredients, but I would not recommend it because you will go into sugar shock :)

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