Every year I have had a drama chasing around three separate supermarkets to get the ingredients for my Ultimate White Christmas so I decided this year to do Rocky Road, Shortbread Stars, Rum balls and Snickerdoodles. I send them in for the class teacher and all the incidental staff too - like the librarian and the music and sports teachers.
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| all wrapped and ready to deliver |
The original recipe I based mine on called for clinkers. I have had a week trekking around Townsville and have not found them anywhere. One shop had an empty hook labelled clinkers. Grrr. So the first batch was made with honeycomb instead.
My recipe is:
2 x 250g bags chocolate Cadbury melts
300g honeycomb (cut into 4 pieces) or 2 bags clinkers (cut in half)
180g raspberries (sweets not fruit)(cut in half)
100g baby marshmallows
Please use other brands of chocolate than Nestle - for information about the boycott click here I love that Cadbury now offers a choice of chips, buttons or bars of cooking chocolate in white, milk or dark. So I had two bags of milk melts.
Melt chocolate in TM bowl for 5 minutes temp 50 speed 1 (You can cut the sweets up while the chocolate melts)
Scrape down edges and melt for a further 1 1/2 minutes.
Change speed to reverse speed soft and add clinkers(or honeycomb) raspberries and marshmallows, in assorted handfuls. Let the machine do the mixing.
Once combined turn into a lamington tray. I used a CT silicon mold so the turning out was a dream! If I was using a rigid tray I would definitely line it.
Spread it evenly and refrigerate to set
Turn out and cut into nice big slabs when set. I used gift bags and a bit of sparkle
Don't forget to enlist the help of an assistant in the cleaning up!
I made a second batch today with fake clinkers (at last!) and the family is eagerly waiting to see how it comes out (the rest was earmarked for gifting and was not to be sampled on pain of death - or worse!)
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