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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Desserts => Topic started by: Jad on May 14, 2009, 08:25:35 am
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Name of Recipe: Mars Bar Slice
Number of People: It depends on how greedy you are haha. 1-8 is my best estimate. :)
Ingredients: 60g Mars Bars (x3), Butter (90g) and CocoPops (3 cups)
Preparation:
Get yourself three Mars Bars (60g size) and chop them up into 1cm pieces. Place in TM. Then grab 90g of Butter and chop into 1cm pieces as well (It helps it melt down quicker.) Place in TM.
Set timer to 10mins at 50 degrees on Speed 1
Check after 10mins that the butter and Mars Bars are all melted and mixed together properly.
Place 3 cups of CocoPops in the TM, set on Reverse :-: mode and Speed Soft ^^ for as long as it takes for the TM to mix the chocolaty goo into the CocoPops evenly. It should only take 3-4mins if that.
Once mixed place contents in a medium to small sized tray with baking paper and flatten it out in the tray with a wooden spoon or spatula. Place in fridge for an hour or two and you're done.
Cut into slices and serve chilled or at room temperature.
Photos:
(http://www.aspoonfulofsugar.com.au/images/spoonfulofsugarjpg191.jpg)
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/joemurphy/TM/DSC00514.JPG)
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/joemurphy/TM/DSC00517.JPG)
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/joemurphy/TM/DSC00518.JPG)
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/joemurphy/TM/DSC00519.JPG)
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/joemurphy/TM/DSC00520.JPG)
Tips/Hints:
The last photo is not a representation of the final quantity. I had already eaten half of the tray due to extreme yummyness.
Some people melt down milk chocolate to put a layer on top. I find this takes away from the unique Mars Bar taste. Try it without first as it's so quik and easy to make. Then try again with your favorite plain chocolate and see what you think. Each to their own.
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OMG! that looks amazing! My old school chums would love that! They are coming over in June, so I know what we will all be eating in the hot tub on the terrace of the 5* Hotel suite that we have booked! THX will be coming with! No men/kids allowed!
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I've done this one before and the hardest part was mixing the coco pops through the melted choc and butter mixture. Now, our wonderful TMX can do all the work for us.
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just plain cruel to some of us... :'( ;)
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Love the sound of your old school chum get together Bron - this is something all women should get the chance to do occasionally. How many nights are you having together?
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I've done this one before and the hardest part was mixing the coco pops through the melted choc and butter mixture. Now, our wonderful TMX can do all the work for us.
SO TRUE!
I was actually really really impressed at how much better it mixed the CocoPops through. Because the TM bowl was still warm as the goo slide down the TM just keeps mixing it through and mixing it through til' every CocoPop is evenly covered. Way better than a bowl and wooden spoon hehe.
Another TM winner I think. 8)
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Love the sound of your old school chum get together Bron - this is something all women should get the chance to do occasionally. How many nights are you having together?
Just 2 nights, we do it every year, our husbands don't trust us together any longer! Or maybe I should say can't cope without us any longer! The girls all live in London, so they fly over and we take a suite on the top floor with hot tub, and we spend 2 days non stop laughing, gossiping and end up all wrinkly from spending so long in the tub! Wonderful therapy, recommend it to everyone. We don't even leave the room, and we eat and drink all unhealthy things like when we were at school! Best mates now for 30 years, isn't that wonderful! We do cherish our friendship though! ;D ;D ;D
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I'm with you, Karen *sigh*
Although, the Cadbury family block of chocolate whip flavour is the closest thing I've tasted to a mars bar since going gluten free, and one could do it with GF rice bubbles...hmmm I think chocolate whip is being discontinued with the downsizing of the blocks though :( :( :(
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For us watching our weight, they used to do a lower fat version of Mars Bars but I haven't seen them around for ages now.
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For us watching our weight, they used to do a lower fat version of Mars Bars but I haven't seen them around for ages now.
I think they are just low fat because they are smaller in size. :)
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No, they were definitely lower in fat content - I checked it out at the time. You used to be able to buy small ones in those snack packs. Probably something in them which was not good for our health (other than fat I mean). Even mice loved them ;) ;) Before we removed a heater and filled all the holes behind it, they used to get into the house. When we shifted a heavy bookcase, I couldn't believe it as there were 3 of those tiny mars bars behind and under it - 2 eaten into and the 3rd untouched. I used to keep them on a low table with other treats and guess who would have got the blame for eating MY low fat snacks - yes DH who would have denied it of course but it could have been a tricky situation had I know exactly how many should have been there and how many I had eaten. I used to have 1 a week when I was on a diet.
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No, they were definitely lower in fat content - I checked it out at the time. You used to be able to buy them in those snack packs. Probably something in them which was not good for our health (other than fat I mean).
But they were smaller in size though, considerably. Compared to the 60g version I use in the recipe. You'd perhaps have to use 4 or 5 lite versions to make up for it. And there I am not sure just how much more 'low fat' it's going to be if you know what I mean.
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I'm with you. Annette Sym of the Symply cookbooks has a recipe using 2 x 44.5g lite Mars bars (50% less fat) and some golden syrup for the goo part which wasn't bad but obviously no where near as tasty as the full on one. I'm not dieting now so I would do the full-on one but when you are dieting it is nice to have the option of something 'naughty' once in a while. But, as I said, I haven't seen the light ones around for years now.
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I'm with you. Annette Sym of the Symply cookbooks has a recipe using 2 x 44.5g lite Mars bars (50% less fat) and some golden syrup for the goo part which wasn't bad but obviously no where near as tasty as the full on one. I'm not dieting now so I would do the full-on one but when you are dieting it is nice to have the option of something 'naughty' once in a while. But, as I said, I haven't seen the light ones around for years now.
Ah that's good to know thanks Judy.
I work at Woolworths here in VIC and we still have the lite Mars Bars. Actually they were on special a couple of weeks ago. ;) :D
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Thanks Jad - great recipe and fantastic photo collage - makes it easier for people to understand what should be done - Ta muchly
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They've re-badged the lite Mars bars, I just saw an ad on the TV a couple of nights ago - the RED Mars is the low fat one now ;D
HTH!
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Thanks for that Harmony - I don't watch much TV. Will look out for them.
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ooooh, this looks yummy. I think Mars bars are gluten free and I can get some gluten free cocoa crisp type cereal...
What a great idea. Thanks for the recipe!
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I have rice bubbles, would I need to add cocoa powder as well?
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Jad, I haven't seen you on the forum before. Welcome and keep the recipes coming if they are as good as this one. Thanks for posting and the photos are great.
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I have rice bubbles, would I need to add cocoa powder as well?
Jules, I checked a recipe Annette Sym had in one of her Symply Too Good To Be True cookbooks and she used ordinary rice bubbles and added no cocoa powder. The mars bar will coat the rice bubbles and make them go brown but probably not at dark as Jad's picture.
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Awesome, I will make some yummy treats for the boys tomorrow then (pity both mars bars and rice bubbles contaiin gluten so I cant try them but thats ok - a good way to use the ingredients up)
Thanks
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I haven't seen these before!
They look fabulous!
Thank you for the recipe :-*
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Jad, I haven't seen you on the forum before. Welcome and keep the recipes coming if they are as good as this one. Thanks for posting and the photos are great.
Hi Roxy! I've done one other recipe, well kinda. How to make a good cappuccino at home...
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=867.msg4415#msg4415
I'll keep working on some more though. I'm gonna try this Mars Bar Slice with Snickers instead and see how it goes. I shall call it Snickers Slice hehe. Very original lol.
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Could you tell me how much is 1 cup? 200ml or 250ml?
Thanks :-*
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I've been using a 240ml measuring cup. I don't heap the Coco Pops either. Too many Coco Pops can dry it out a bit. Soft and gooey and at room temperature is the best was to consume IMHO. 8)
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Thanks Jad. :-*
I use a 240ml cup then
You know what?
I wanted to make it for tomorrow, I went to market to buy coco pops. There were 3 kinds. I didn't remember exactly and couldn't be sure which one so I bought 2 kinds. Guess what? It was supposed to be 3rd kind! :-\
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That would be my luck too farfallina ;D ;D ;D We know what you will be having for breakfast for a couple of weeks ;) ;)
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Haha sorry ladies. Maybe I should put a picture of the Coco Pops box in the actual recipe!
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Actually its already in there...
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/joemurphy/TM/DSC00518.JPG)
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Yes JD, for a while I have enough corn flakes for breakfast :) Soon I will have even more because I will buy again also the kind that are needed for this recipe!! :D
Jad, in fact remembered that you added pictures but I just couldn't remember how they were :)
Well, there is also another reason. Out of curiosity I've just checked Australian and Italian web sites of Coco Pops.
Even if they are all the products of Kellog's they are different!!
Thanks God the one you are using for this recipe exists also here :)
However you have 2 other different Coco Pops in Australia which don't exist here
And apparently in Italy there are 4 others which don't exist there
It's a bit confusing :-))
Same brand, same product line.. You'd expect that they would be the same wouldn't you? Instead they are not! :)
http://www.kelloggs.it/pages/coco_pops.aspx (http://www.kelloggs.it/pages/coco_pops.aspx)
http://www.kellogg.com.au/Home/Products/Cereal/CocoPops/tabid/323/Default.aspx (http://www.kellogg.com.au/Home/Products/Cereal/CocoPops/tabid/323/Default.aspx)
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Well I made these yesterday - everybody LOVED them. I must say these looked very tempting (pity they contain gluten).
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However you have 2 other different Coco Pops in Australia which don't exist here
And apparently in Italy there are 4 others which don't exist there
It's a bit confusing :-))
Same brand, same product line.. You'd expect that they would be the same wouldn't you? Instead they are not! :)
http://www.kelloggs.it/pages/coco_pops.aspx (http://www.kelloggs.it/pages/coco_pops.aspx)
http://www.kellogg.com.au/Home/Products/Cereal/CocoPops/tabid/323/Default.aspx (http://www.kellogg.com.au/Home/Products/Cereal/CocoPops/tabid/323/Default.aspx)
Wow you did your research, well done! I knew there were different Coco Pops here in Australia but as you can tell from the box cover they are distinctly different from each other so I didn't think anyone would be confused about. What I didn't know is the variety you have there in Italy and how similar they are to each other! I understand the confusion now hehe.
If I said they were simply chocolate flavored Rice Bubbles by looking at them would that clarify it do you think? A quick Google search for images of Rice Bubbles tells me they are pretty much the same world wide yes?
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Can see how confusing it is for you farfallina. So, in the end, did you work out you need chocolate rice bubbles for this recipe although ordinary rice bubbles will work too. You obviously bought corn flakes - they can also be used to roll cookie dough in to give them a nice crunchy outer layer. http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/2794/cornflake+cookies is a recipe for this. Easy for you to convert to the TMX.
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Jad I believe its great if you note down also as chocolate flavored Rice Bubbles. It would explain a lot! :-))
JD great idea! I can use my cfs to make cookies! :)
Thank you both :-*
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Hi all, I made this yesterday and just used plain rice crispies as they're called in the UK...well atually they were the cheaper Aldi brand.
Came out absolutely lovely. I'm thinking about freezing some to smash up and then sprinkle on custard or icecream.
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My collection of recipes keeps growing as I await the arrival of my TMX - I have made Mars Bar slice many times over the years! How great it will be not to have to use the amount of effort required to mix through butter + mars bars. I have always used Rice Bubbles, never thinking about Coco Pops until this point, however the Rice Bubbles have always been a hit.
Cheers
johnro - Rockhampton, Qld
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Finally made it! :)
super tasty!!!!
and also so easy to prepare!
Thank you Jad :-* :-* :-*
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Good work farfallina. We normally don't have coco pops, but we had to make something like this for a friend. Now MrsT is polishing off the left-overs for brekkie.