Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon and today we are making a
giant Tim Tam
If you are new to our giant things series I make giant chocolate bar like a snickers,
kitkat, mars bar, twix, ferrero rocher or hershey's kiss and give it to someone who
is doing giant things. Today you'll get to meet an inspiring young lady...
But first you need to know how to make it. For the biscuit part you will need sugar,
brown sugar, margarine, vegetable oil, eggs, golden syrup, baking powder and salt. And
you'll also cocoa powder and lots of flour.
Place the white sugar, brown sugar, margarine, oil and golden syrup into a large mixing bowl.
Yes this is a calorie laden snack. Mix it together until it is well combined.
And you could do this by hand if you use your muscles and stir it really well.
Add in the salt and all of your eggs and mix it through until you can't see any more streaks
of egg yolk.
Onto a clean counter sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder So you end up with
this big mountain of flour.
Then make a hole in the middle and then pour on the sugar mixture. Start to mix it in, and
you could do this in a mixing bowl if you have a huge commercial sized mixing bowl.
But I don't have one of those so you can just use you hands on the counter and mix it together.
Now this will be quite a sticky dough. Don't add more flour to it it is right this is how
we want it.
And then divide it into four quarters and take in one quarter roll it out between two
sheets of baking paper. And continue to roll it until you have it a little bit bigger than
you want it so you can trim off the edges once it is cooked.
Slide it onto a baking tray and bake it until it is golden and firm to the touch.
You don't want it to be soft we want it to be nice and firm so it will hold the weight
of the Tim Tam. While it is still hot trim it along the edges
to make them nice and straight and even. Make sure you are using a ruler to measure it
so that they are all the same size. Because we want to make four of these.
To make the filling you will need icing sugar - you'll need to sift that, cocoa powder,
salt and margarine. Whip it all together until it is smooth and
thick.
Now to make the base and join the biscuits together we need to temper some chocolate.
You can watch my chocolate secrets video if you're not sure how to do that.
Spread the chocolate out onto some non-stick baking paper and add your biscuit pieces on
top. Fill any of the gaps with chocolate and the join with chocolate there. Then add the filling
onto the top. When you look at the sides of the TimTam the
filling on the sides is quite smooth it's not rough. So use a spatula to smooth it up
and around. I am making it slightly in from the edge so when we push it down it's got
a bit of room to spread out.
Add the top biscuit on and push down like I was just saying. Now we want to lift it
up so that we can cover it in chocolate and have somewhere for the chocolate to drip down.
It is very heavy so it will need s wide support. I am going to use a dinner plate with a bowl
underneath it on each end.
Then pour the tempered chocolate over the top allowing it just to drop down over the
edges and cover the filling of the sides and cover right down to the base.
All the chocolate that is dripping down and onto the paper we can just scoop that up and
use for the second coat. And you can of course make normal sized tim tams using this recipe
too. You just need to scale down the quantities and roll the biscuit thinner.
Once the first layer is set, re-temper chocolate and then pour that over the top again so that
we get a nice thick double coat of chocolate.
Use the back of a spoon to make a slight pattern across the top and then leave it to set and
wrap it up.
And today I have with me a very special guest. Jessica Watson sailed solo around the world
when she was only 16 years old, making her the youngest person in the world to do so.
Hi jessica thanks for joining us today. Well thanks for having me. What inspired you what
made you go I am going to sail around the world. It was a dream I had when I was 11,
it was mostly a book that kind of put the idea in my head and started me thinking what
can I do. This wasn't just an easy sail in calm waters this was a dangerous trip where
did you get the courage to overcome all of the nay-sayers. Well I mean I can understand
where they were coming from because it is a big scary and a dangerous thing to be doing
if you don't know anything about sailing. The supporters I had were very supportive.
There was a lot of preparation. There was a lot of work that went a bit un noticed and
that is where a lot of the criticism came from. So your trip started here in Sydney
and then you went around the world and finished back to a huge audience to greet you. How
long did that journey take? It took 210 days which is 7 months yeah across the Pacific
down the Atlantic Ocean Indian ocean, under Australia and if you say it fast it sounds
kind of easy. Your parents wouldn't let you go unless you had a boat that self-righted
itself so did it ever some to the point where it tipped over. Yeah the bottom of the Atlantic
Ocean was probably the worst storm and we're talking waves 10m plus which is pretty huge
and rolled over four times that night. Yeah it's pretty terrifying having to walk up the
walls to stand on the roof of your boat. And you said you took all your food with you everything
with you. Your rubbish stayed with you on the boat because no one was meeting you it
was really solo. How did you cope with that isolation. It was strange I missed everyone
certainly. And it was kind of my choice to be out there so I new everyone was waiting
for me back home. Was there a favourite part of the trip? I had a storm where a dolphin
swam along next to me the entire time. That was pretty special. That's gorgeous yes. Or
just you know sunsets or like when the water was so perfectly still that you've got the
stars reflecting like a mirror in the water. Things like that are pretty special. You have
a book that came out not long after your trip. And then more recently is there a movie int
he works? Yeah I wrote a book about the trip which was awesome and a lot of it was sort
of a journal along the way. and then they are making a movie out of it which is just
a surreal experience. Very strange I never imagined that would happen. And you're involved
int eh movie? Yeah my role is stunt double so I get to I do the sailing scenes and I'm
a technical consultant so I kind of pull them up and make sure that is is accurate to sailing.
So I have been following your instagram feed and noticed you have been all around the world
at the moment what have you been up to? Yeah it's a role with the United Nations World
Food Program and it's been incredible I've been able to go to Laos and recently to Jordan
and Lebanon to see some of the refugee crisis. It is really incredible and you want to do
everything that you can to help But it's also very inspiring. You see people over there
in really really incredibly tough situations and you see them with a smile on their face.
Making the best of these situations. And you come back here and go what am I going to do
with my day. Well seen as we are both from Australia I thought we might do a Tim Tam
slam, do you like tim tams I like tim tams they are one the favourite things that I got
handed when I crossed the finish line. Well we will show the world how to do a Tim Tam
slam. SO you bite each end off. One two three go. [laughter] That biscuit goes soggy so
fast. And hence why it's called the tim tam slam you have to put the whole thing in because
it kind of disintegrates doesn't it. It goes yep, it just melts in your mouth. Well to
say thank you to people who do giant things, and I feel like you blow that category out
of the water. Not only did you do crazy stuff at 16 and meet your own dreams you are now
going back with the World Food Program and helping other people. So we want to say thank
you to you int he way that we do on how to cook that. Which is to give you something
giant. SO we have for you today a giant. Oh My Gosh. Tim Tam. Which I don't think you
will be able to do a Tim Tam slam with this one. No I think that would be like a big challenge.
Oh wow that's pretty incredible. [ripping] oh my gosh that is an incredible amount of
chocolate. And it looks exactly like a Tim Tam with the double layers there. Double coat
original Tim Tam the one that you like, perfect. Exactly. That is absolutely incredible. I
don't think you'll be able to pick it up and take a bite so may be saw some off the edge.
That's a decent sized tool for this super-sized Tim Tam. Oh my gosh. That's exactly like a
Tim Tam. I am glad you like Tim Tams. It tastes exactly like a normal Tim Tam only, just a
lot more. If I had taken a Tim Tam like this with me it would of maybe lasted. Be inspired
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