Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon and today we are making a giant 3 kilogram
or 7 pound MARS BAR
In this giant chocolate bar series we have made a snickers, twix, kitkat, ferrero rocher
and of course at the end we give them away to someone who is doing giant things.
So keep watching to the end so you can see who gets this one.
To make the caramel part you will need.
sugar, 2 cups of glucose syrup or light corn syrup, milk and cream.
All of the recipe quantities are written out on the howtocookthat.net website in grams
and ounces and cups, there is a link in the description below the video.
Pour all of the ingredients into a saucepan.
And then stir it over high heat until the sugar is dissolved.
Add a candy thermometer and continue to heat without stirring until it reaches 245F And
this will take a little while so while that is bubbling away choose a rectangle container
with straight sides and line it with non-stick baking paper.
Now it is at 230 and you can see it is starting to change colour and get a little thicker.
Now it's at 243 it is a bit darker again, but it is hard to judge without a candy thermometer
so I'd suggest getting one.
Pour it into your container and then place the whole thing immediately into some water.
This helps it to cool it down rapidly so the caramel doesn't keep cooking.
Because if it gets hotter it's going to get harder when it is cooled down.
which means it is going to be too hard.
We want it to be that nice ooey gooey mars bar caramel.
While that is cooling let's make the nougat.
You'll need egg whites, glucose syrup and vanilla extract.
Place 1 teaspoon of vanilla into the bowl of an electric mixer and add the egg white
followed by the glucose syrup, if you don't have glucose you can use light corn syrup
instead.
Then just put that bowl to one side.
Measure out your sugar, water, glucose syrup and malt extract - and this is just for flavour.
You will also need cocoa powder and some chopped up milk chocolate.
Place the water, sugar and the syrups into a saucepan and stir those together.
Then just like we did before you want to stir those over high heat until that sugar is dissolved.
Then keep it on high heat but you don't need to stir it.
And just watch the temperature with a candy thermometer until it gets to about 240 and
at that stage turn on your egg whites to whip.
Once they are whipped check your syrup and it should beat about 260F.
Remove from the heat and pour in a steady stream into the egg whites while they are
still mixing.
That will thicken up and then turn it down onto low and add in the cocoa powder and chocolate.
Then turn off the beaters and continue to fold it in by hand until you have a smooth
even colour.
Pour this on top of the caramel this nice nougat and then smooth it out so you've got
a level top.
Leave to cool completely.
Place a layer of chocolate over the base.
Then I'd suggest you chill it for a few hours in the freezer so it is firm enough to hold
it's shape while it gets covered in chocolate.
I didn't put mine in the freezer and as you can see here the thick layer of soft nougat
not quite strong enough to hold itself without the chocolate on it.
Once the chocolate is on it it will be fine at room temperature.
Pour the chocolate over the top and then once that is set you can add a second layer of
chocolate if you want.
And I have rested the card here on a thick layer of card covered in non-stick baking
paper.
And then place that onto three cups.
And that just lets all the chocolate drip down.
Then once that is second layer is set just trim off all those drips from the bottom.
You can leave the top plain or you can add some more chocolate to the top of the bar
to make pattern.
Once it is all set cut a sheet of plastic book cover to the right size and precut a
strip off the backing on each side there but leave it in place.
Wrap it around the mars bar and stick at the back.
Then remove that precut strip of the backing that we cut.
Line up the two edges in the centre and stick them together then fold in each corner and
flatten.
Use some scissors and just trim of any uneven bits using scissors.
And repeat that on the other end.
I found this was much stronger than using just wrapping paper and considering the weight
of the bar you do need some strength.
Print out a mars.
Add then add that word mars word on the top using some glue.
On todays show I have with me a professional athlete, Topou Supoaga plays for the Penrith
Panthers Hey guys how's it going?
Topou I'd love it if you could tell us what life was like for you growing up before you
became a professional athlete.
Ahh ohh I wouldn't say that I grew up in um I guess wealthy or anything I was you know
most like most of my neighborhood friends.
Umm we didn't have much but we were really happy.
We were really happy.
Big family, small family.
Yeah big family I've got ahh 3 brothers, 2 sisters and my mum and dad so um you know
there was a lot of us to fend for.
My mum and dad and I'm just thankful that um you know they were a good inspiration for
us to I guess try and achieve my dreams and um I guess pursue them.
And I heard that you wrote in your end of primary book what your dream was for in ten
year time.
What you'd like to be doing.
What did you write in that.
Well in ten years time which is so ten years ago from this year, I said that I wanted to
play for the Penrith Panthers.
And who would of thought that ten years later I am living my dream and playing with the
team that I grew up loving.
So and in a different country too so.
Yes and your dream has come true.
Which so many people so many of my viewers would have dreams that they want to pursue.
And I know so many people who would say oh yeah I had a dream when I was a child and
it never happened.
Yep.
What's the difference do you think.
How did you get from it being just a dream to it being a reality?
Ahh I guess for me I just had a big sense of drive and umm when you have a lot of drive
you know when you have an obstacle you know we had a few obstacles coming up when we were
young and ahh we didn't hold onto the obstacles I'd rather hold onto my dream and my drive.
And I guess that is what made me and a few of my brothers become professional athletes.
Umm Yeah I reckon drive is a big thing and it doesn't matter where you are from and how
old you are you know what background you are from.
It's all about how much drive you've got and how bad you really want your dream to come
true.
Back then I really wanted it bad you know.
I didn't have much, we didn't have much just like the local community but umm you know
we always said if we want to make it one day something has got to change.
That's amazing.
And now you have reached that dream and many professional athletes who have reached the
stage that you have would spend their spare time I assume having with mates and partying
but I've heard you spend your Friday nights not doing that.
What do you usually do on Friday night.
Yeah on Friday nights I usually go to a local youth group and ah you know I just hang out
with them.
These kids from different areas of life and umm you know it's just good to be around kids
and i guess helping them out.
You know sharing stories with them, you know I am listening to their stories and just umm
encouraging them and stuff.
You know some kids got problems and you know I'm just another ear to listen to an you know.
It makes me feel younger too hanging out with younger kids.
Achieving your dream and going after that drive passionately enough to get your dreams
is amazing and then also once you've made that going back and giving back to the community
is awesome as well.
So on How To Cook That we have a special way of saying thank you to people who inspire
us.
And so we have a gift for you today.
Beautiful.
Which is ohh [claps hands]
a giant mars bar ohh come on
yesss did you, is this real
It is real.
Oh my goodness.
All right can I go in go in for the kill alright.
mmm that taste like a full on mars bar.
yeah.
This is awesome.
I'm going to have another bite.
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