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Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking Homemade Honeycomb & Crunchie Bars
Hi Bold Bakers! Since airing my No Machine Homemade Ice Cream video, I've had a lot of
requests to show you how to make honeycomb. I'm happy to do this because it's really easy,
impressive, and also my mom's favorite! Also I'm releasing a new video tomorrow as part
of a collaboration with Entertaining with Beth so make sure you stay tuned until the
very end of this video to get a sneak peek at what's to come. So let's get baking!
In a heavy bottom sauce pan, add in your sugar and your golden syrup or honey
Gently let these two ingredients melt but don't let it simmer yet.
When all the sugar is dissolved
turn up the heat and let it simmer for 3 minutes
when you get this lovely maple syrup color.
At this point you want to have your whisk ready to go.
As you can see, the caramel has gotten darker. It has a really nice smell to it. So we're
going to go really quickly in with our bicarbonate soda. We're going to whisk and stand back.
Look at that. Amazing! Look at all those bubbles. Now take it off the heat
and pour it immediately onto your prepared surface.
Take care not to touch the mix until it goes cold.
Look how lovely and bubbly and caramelly it is.
As you can see, this recipe happens really fast so make sure you have your surface oiled
before you start, all your ingredients weighed out, and your whisk and spatula ready in hand.
Honeycomb is like caramel lava but it's not just for mixing into your ice cream. I'm going
to show you another tip of what you can do with it once it goes cold.
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When your honeycomb goes cold, lift it off the surface
and break it apart
into pieces.
When you crack your honeycomb open, you can see all the beautiful airy holes on the inside.
And this is why they call it honeycomb.
Break your honeycomb into the sizes that you want.
For those of you who have ever had a Crunchie bar, that is exactly what this tastes like.
Mmmmm.
Honeycomb is a great treat by itself
but even more delicious when you mix it
into my homemade ice cream base.
So that tip I was telling you about earlier
We are going to dip our homemade honeycomb into melted chocolate and we're going to make
our very own Crunchie bars.
To make your homemade Crunchie bars,
take your broken honeycomb
dip it in your lovely melted chocolate. Give it a toss around
Let all this chocolate drip off
Then take it out and let it dry on a wire rack.
When the chocolate sets
you will have your very own
BIG & BOLD homemade candy bar!
Now you know how to make your own honeycomb for ice cream and for Crunchie bars. Make
sure to come back tomorrow where I'm collaborating with Entertaining with Beth to bring you a
beautiful Butterscotch Pudding and Beth is making a Tortellini Pesto Salad.
Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and I'll see you for the next episode of Bigger Bolder Baking.