Chocolate Honeycomb Squares

So after a pretty poor week of weather and getting repeatedly drenched, a weekend of indulgence was definitely in order. Enter, chocolate honeycomb squares. The closest thing you could get to something ‘good’ for you in this recipe are the Maltesers and they aren’t really good, only less bad for you than everything else! I came across this recipe on Baking Mad and it’s unbelievably easy. Granted it doesn't really count as baking as no oven is required but who cares?!

When you make this, make sure you use a big saucepan because you are essentially making the whole thing in there. I, foolishly, didn’t read the whole recipe before I started and thought I was just melting things in it so I used a small one and then had a little bit of an issue when trying to mix in the biscuits and Maltesers. Nevertheless I just about managed it and any that spilt over the sides was a good excuse to sample the mixture!

The original recipe calls for a 20x20cm tin which I didn’t have to I just squashed it up to one side of a larger tin which worked fine it just means you don’t have such a square edge on one end. When it says ‘leave to cool’ I think it took mine about an hour or so but I must admit I didn’t time it. When it comes to decorating it, make you properly melt the chocolate so it’s really runny or else the toppings won’t stick properly which is what happened to me. It looks fine as a block but ten you cut it they all fall off…

Aside from that this is a very easy, super indulgent recipe that even a small finger of will satisfy the strongest of sugar cravings. Just remember big pan and thorough chocolate melting and you’ll be fine!

Here is the recipe:

100g unsalted butter

200g milk chocolate

3 tbsp golden syrup

225g roughly crushed digestive biscuits

225g roughly chopped Maltesers (honeycomb balls)

For the topping:

100g roughly chopped Maltesers (honeycomb balls)

50g roughly chopped digestives

50g milk chocolate

50g white chocolate

Get a large saucepan and melt the sugar, chocolate and golden syrup until all combined

Leave to cool while you chop up the digestives and Maltesers then mix them in with the melted ingredients

Grease a pan and line with greaseproof paper and then spread the mixture into it evenly

Leave to cool in the fridge until set (roughly one hour)

Once set, melt the milk chocolate and spread a layer over the base to act as a glue for sticking the chopped digestives and honeycomb balls to the top

Finish off by drizzling the top wit the white chocolate and any remaining milk chocolate

Don’t forget to Lick Your Spoon as much as is hygienically possible throughout this recipe as it’s delicious!