(laughs) - Just buy a Kit Kat.
(upbeat music)
Hello everybody.
It's Barry here.
Hope you, you.
I actually touched the lens.
Is there a blob there?
Hope you, don't know who this is, oh well.
Welcome to the kitchen.
Today's video came about a couple nights ago.
I was talking to Phoebe basically,
and if you remember a couple, well about a week ago,
I did Chloe's birthday cakes.
She ended up with two.
Then I felt a little bit bad,
although Phoebe's birthday is coming up in April,
I thought, I asked her the other night,
I said, what is your favourite thing?
And she absolutely loves Kit Kats.
There was a series I did last year,
I think I did an emergency peanut butter cup.
Yeah, I want some of that.
And a Snickers as well.
Mm.
I'm going to try an do a Kit Kat one.
Now the theory of this is basically,
if you got a bit of an emergency,
and you've got someone who like really likes
a specific thing, like the Snickers
or the peanut butter cup,
that you can make it in under an hour in an emergency.
Like nice and quick.
So hopefully today we'll do this Kit Kat,
and well I better check that,
I wanna make sure she's here somewhere.
Now before I start-
- Yes?
- You legitimately want a big what?
- Kit Kat.
- And it's not going to be a cake, you realise that?
It's just gonna be a huge Kit Kat finger.
- Okay.
- Is that alright?
- Yes.
- Do you want any writing on the top?
- Kit Kat.
- Really?
- Yes.
- Don't want Phoebe?
Alright cool.
Bye.
- Is that for me?
- No, just wait.
- Okay.
- Kit Kats right?
They are actually effectively two ingredients.
They have the chocolate and then in the middle
of each finger there is a, like a stack of wafers.
Now what holds it together is actually bits of Kit Kat
that don't make it passed the approval process,
and then get whizzed up into a paste
which then bonds the wafers together
to support those stacks that get drenched in chocolate,
and create that slab that Phoebe absolutely loves.
So we can pretty much replicate that.
Instead of using recycled Kit Kats,
even though we do have some in the drawer.
It's kinda like Phoebe's stash.
We're gonna use some chocolate spread.
I think we've done that before,
when we made the massive Kit Kat.
But then today we're gonna try and do something,
I came up with this idea last night,
to try and get the writing on top that Phoebe wants,
we're gonna use some ready rolled icing.
And that's the first thing we're gonna do.
We're rolling out the icing,
so I know it's roughly that shape
to give me my area for my letters.
I mean that is gonna be way too thick.
I wanna get it actually fairly thin.
We just wanna make that indentation.
Ooh, it's actually room temperature.
I can push it in my hands anyway.
It's kinda like edible Play-Doh.
That was what I was think,
I was in the supermarket last night and had a moment.
And if you follow me on Twitter,
I also had a moment where I saw someone that I like them,
but if I talk to them I'm there for hours.
I had my face mask on, my hat on, I was like,
they're not going to recognise me.
And they're like, hey Barry.
I'm like, hiya, and whoosh, gone.
(laughs)
Cut around just a rough area,
so I know that is my actual limit
of where I can do my lettering as I said before.
Okay, I am rubbish at this sorta stuff,
so I'm gonna go in just a little bit here.
And I'll start with the upper part of the K.
I'm just gonna do the outline first.
(upbeat music)
Alright.
(laughs)
You see that folks?
I have got my K and we'll jump to me
hopefully having lots of letters.
I might change my knife actually, to a craft knife.
It's got a bit of a rounded edge on it,
so it's not getting it great.
Alright then folks, I'm actually really happy
with how that's panned out.
I'm not very good at stuff like this in general.
I'm not gonna do the circle around it,
actually maybe I will.
Maybe I will, yeah, let's do that.
It's just very fiddly and I know after all this effort,
now I'm gonna end up putting it the wrong way around.
So it says tak tik.
Hey, that's a bad tactic.
The other thing was, I had immense pressure with these guys
pretending they weren't staring at me,
but you were, weren't you?
You were just watching my every move.
(laughs)
Yeah that was like way harder than it should have been.
(laughs)
I really shouldn't say that.
I don't wanna let, that's fine.
Alright, I have no idea what this is gonna look like,
even still now, look.
But you can see that will spell Kit Kat.
I've just shortened the K's a little bit though
because I think I can get that, just that little band,
just one loop of yellow icing
around the edge there to touch there.
I'm just gonna roll out a little snake of it
and then let's see if we can bond it together.
This stuff is temperamental though.
So it's a little bit like a gremlin.
Don't make it, don't make it wet, okay?
Don't feed it after midnight.
(upbeat music)
I've got to keep making it thinner though
'cause I wanna try and get the circle around it.
- Can I just say though?
There's no circle around the actually Kit Kat bar.
- Isn't there?
- No.
Don't think so.
- There isn't is there?
- No.
- You're actually right.
That is fine, what the heck am I doing?
Thank goodness you're here.
- Hashtag my break.
Alright this is a brand new video.
Brilliant.
- I'm sorry.
- No it's fine.
Don't forget to check out-
- Maybe I'm wrong.
- You're wrong?
- I'm wrong.
(sighs)
So I'm right?
(giggles)
- But it's only half.
- What, so?
There was a moment there where I thought,
she's right, which is normally most of the time
in our relationship, if you're wondering folks.
I think we might have done that, we've nailed it.
Yeah.
(laughs)
Oh my gosh, I've just realised my camera here,
it spins it downs and reverses the mirror.
That literally says Kit Kat on the camera.
Amazing, wait a minute.
Does that mean, no.
I'm looking in the mirror, that's right.
Are we right?
What?
Yes, it's fine.
It's fine, right?
(gentle music)
Not gonna touch that for a minute.
I'm gonna have a break.
No pun intended.
And last year I did, when the start of the lockdown,
I did homemade Kit Kats from scratch.
Completely from scratch.
(chews and grunts)
And partly because to make the wafer filling,
the easiest thing to get is some ice cream wafers.
Now if you have not seen that video, do check it out.
But I explored about six different supermarkets
and could not find these rectangular wafers,
which are absolutely perfect.
And in fact, I ended up making my own homemade wafers.
They were a little bit misshaped,
but they tasted sensational.
If I had that last year,
it would have saved me a lot of time.
And this is what we're using.
Doesn't need to be perfect
because we have to make a lot of these rafts.
And by simply sticking one on top of the other,
we have got ourselves the start
of our epic emergency Kit Kat wafer filling.
If you wanna make homemade ones, by all means, do it.
Check out that video, but this is way easier.
Now I was gonna come onto this about trimming them,
but luckily the width of this wafer
is the perfect size for this tin.
So I kinda fluked that,
but if you have a slightly larger tin or a smaller one,
you can actually add some additional rows if you need to.
So I'm gonna make some rafts and I'll see you in a bit.
Aw folks, I'm not sure if this is gonna work.
I think the chocolate might get under the logo,
and it could just make a mess, but doesn't matter.
I've got some chocolate here in chunks,
and also some finely chopped stuff.
So we're gonna do like a bodge temper.
If you are doing this emergency thing,
I'm not expecting you to maybe go as crazy
or properly temper your chocolate,
unless you really want to get that nice shine on it.
But basically I put about 75% of the chocolate,
30 second blast, stirring it in between.
And then we've got some finely chopped spare chocolate
to add in to sort of seed it at the end.
I do have a chocolate tempering machine,
but this isn't about that today.
This is about this.
This is where we're gonna move quite fast
because we wanna use that residual heat
to help melt the seed.
And then we just fold it in,
and let that melt it naturally, okay?
Alright folks, that's pretty much lump free now.
It's the moment of truth.
We've gotta quickly get the chocolate in
around those letters to set it for the top
that gives us a foundation for our rafts.
So I'm bringing the Kit Kat bit in like so,
and I'm just hoping it doesn't move it too much.
Do do do do.
Okay that's cool.
Probably can't hear that,
but there is a pug snoring in the background.
It's making this whole process very therapeutic for me.
I'm just gonna-
(soft taps)
Okay this is going straight in the freezer right now
to give it a slab for our wafers to sit on.
So we're gonna give it five minutes in the freezer
just to get it tacky.
Boom.
Yeah that's the whole thing when I do these emergency ones,
I've just shoved it straight in my freezer
for the time being because it is all about doing this
in a complete hurry.
Let's say the lettering has taken a fair amount of my time.
If you don't do that, it'd probably be done by now.
(laughs)
Alright believe it or not, that has only been two minutes,
and I could just touch it and it's tacky.
It doesn't need to be solid set just yet.
We've now got the perfect platform for our wafers.
Which hopefully should go in here.
Oh yes.
(soft pops)
Oh my gosh, this is tricky.
There you go, there you go.
And now, we drench it in our chocolate that's left over.
It's been patiently sat on the side.
And I'm just gonna pour straight on top like this.
(soft piano music)
And hope that I have enough chocolate
because it doesn't look like I do.
Oh no.
Oh my gosh, I don't have enough chocolate.
I literally don't have enough.
(gasps)
Oh my gosh.
Off to the shops I go.
(laughs)
Just hurried it to the shops.
Got loads more chocolate, like double I got yesterday.
And I also got some bread for some lunch.
Let's get back. I really hope it hasn't set.
I was marinating on getting white chocolate.
So I could do like, you know,
they do this two tone chocolate Kit Kats that are like,
wow, this camera's close.
Like white on the bottom,
I think they do a cookies and cream one.
So I guess, no I'm not, let's go.
20 minutes later,
that's the fastest I've ever been around that shop.
And this should now be enough.
(sighs)
Brilliant.
Look at that.
Tappy tap tap tap tap.
I've got a massive blob
of melted chocolate on my microphone.
So while this is in the freezer,
that's what I'm gonna be spending my time doing,
getting that off.
My emergency Kit Kat has turned into quite an epic day.
Alright that should be it, we'll get it set.
Alright, so it was in the freezer
for 30 minutes and it is now-
(gently knocks)
Still a bit soft.
(laughs)
I just tapped that there, well back in the freezer.
And here it is folks, look you can just about see
the outline of the wafer, but that's fine.
It is all nice and level when you look like that.
It is freezing.
(laughs)
But the weight of it,
remember there's about two kilos of chocolate alone in that,
it will just pop out of that.
You just gotta kinda go, ooh I'm free.
That's the dance it does.
(gentle taps)
I just don't want it sticking to the wood,
so I'm putting it on a non-stick, a Barry Lewis too,
but any sort of baking parchment will do.
It's actually 20% off for the whole of January and February
on the stick mats, cake stands, and veggie prep kits.
(loud thuds)
I'm not sure if you can see what's happening folks.
This didn't happen last time.
It fell almost out immediately.
My concern is as it gets more to room temperature
it's getting slightly more, I don't know,
gummy or more clay-like in texture,
rather than being firm chocolate that should just sheer off
the edge of the same tin that I used before.
So I'm gonna set this again and I might leave it over night,
but this time in the fridge.
Just to make sure that those edges stay firm and yeah.
(laughs)
Might see ya tomorrow.
Emergency one hour Kit Kat.
Grease your tin maybe or a little line paper.
It's much better if I leave this thing overnight,
and then worry about it tomorrow.
(laughs)
Oh my gosh, why isn't it just popping out of the case?
My only feeling is that maybe it's not completely set
in the middle, but it was in the freezer for over an hour.
Just watched my video back
and I remembered what I did last time.
I put it in the freezer initially
'cause I didn't wanna turn it into an ice lolly,
and then I put it in the fridge for an hour.
It's now been in the fridge for about an hour,
but it's extremely dark in the kitchen now.
I don't know what to do.
The family have just gone out to the shop for a moment.
So maybe when they get back I'll see if the light's good.
If not we'll do it in the morning.
And in that video as well,
I was struggling to get it out, so it's brilliant.
(laughs)
Just buy a Kit Kat.
Morning everyone.
So it's been in the fridge overnight,
and I've let it at room temperature for like 20 minutes.
It's time to hack this up.
I'm gonna have to pick a side so I'm gonna go here.
Oh my gosh.
That sort of lifted out there when I did that.
There we go.
Let's see if just doing one side like that-
(grunts)
Will help this.
Here we go.
(loud thuds)
I feel like deja vu, come on.
(loud thuds)
I didn't really wanna do this, but oh there we go.
(gasps)
There we go, that has lifted that.
(loud thuds)
(gasps)
♪ Hallelujah ♪
Aw, it's a bit weird.
(laughs)
It's a bit weird.
(laughs)
That's amazing.
That is so weird.
So I'm gonna get the sharpest knife I can and see if I can,
oh no, that's gonna, I can get it out,
but it's gonna take a while.
I'm carving out the icing, can you see?
(laughs)
Give me a minute.
(pants)
Right, it's literally half an hour later.
I've scraped as much of it as I can out with a bamboo skewer
and also a pastry brush for any of the crumbs.
I wouldn't suggest doing that.
Baking parchment wrapped letters would be way better,
but I'm actually surprised that it worked.
But one thing I am going to do,
little bit of chocolate here like that.
And then just in there, nothing too crazy.
But just to add a little bit of life to it.
(laughs)
In retrospect, I should have probably used brown icing
if I was doing this step,
but it's quite nice to sort of show you this journey,
so you don't have to.
Look how much, that looks so much better.
What is that?
- I don't know.
- Is that a gadget that's arrived?
- Can we open it?
- No, I don't know what that is.
Find out on next video folks alright?
(laughs)
We're busy.
Oh wow, that looks amazing.
(gasps)
- Whoa.
(laughs)
- Look, can you guess what that is?
So in conclusion, you can make this very quickly,
just if you don't do the lettering, that's fine, like I did.
Oh my gosh.
That is so tough.
(gasps)
(grunts)
- Oh my gosh.
- Turn it 'round mate, turn it 'round.
Look at that.
(laughs)
That is worth it.
Don't do the letters folks.
It's still a Kit Kat without the letters.
Or do it a different way.
I think that's the best way to do it.
Is to cut it into little wedges like that
because if you're gonna have a big ol' wedge like this size,
you'll need to go for a 50,000 miles walk.
- Mm.
- Is that good?
That taste like a Kit Kat?
Suddenly all the pain was worth it.
Oh my gosh.
There you go folks, another emergency in the bag.
It will take a lot less time,
if you don't play around with the letters, I promise you.
If you wanna do an easier one, the peanut butter cup one,
or the Snickers one was kinda along these lines too.
But was that alright?
- Mm hmm.
- Tastes good.
Pretty much three ingredients too.
Nice bit of fun.
See ya next time.
- [Both] Bye.
♪ Check your level player ♪
♪ No matter what your style ♪
♪ The kitchen's for me ♪
♪ Side burns, moustache, goatee ♪
♪ Maybe all three ♪
(upbeat music)
(giggling)
- [Barry] I caught you contemplating life then,
can you just do that face again?
(laughs)
That's like, me and my Kit Kat.
Is life complete now?
- Mm hmm.