to not know how to make a bloody chocolate krispie cake!

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Didnt have chance to make easter nests over last few days so promised ds1 we would do them today. Melted the choc with butter according to the recipe and the chocolate turned into a mass lump of grit! chucked that with a dissapointed ds but i had another bar in the cupboard so melted that without the butter this time and had lovely smooth melted chocolate added some syrup as per the recipe and bang a mass lump of grit again, wtf? im out of chocolate now :(

The only proper way to make them is with syrup butter and cocoa powder. They are much nicer and chewier that way. I use a pie dish and score the top with the pizza cutter to make sure it's easy to break into pieces, then bung in the fridge to set. It's always a bit soft at room temp, but delicious even so. I don't have an actual recipe, I just chuck in the ingredients until it looks/tastes good and then stir in the crispies.

AndMiffy: its easy. That 30 minutes is required to scrape the bowl and then make a brew to have with the first cake.

I have been making these for 31 yrs

Butter syurp and caster sugar in a large sausepan low heat melt making sugar all sugar is melted

Remove from heat add either choclate that has been broken up ( plain is best) or cocco poweder stir untill melted pour cornflakes or rice krispes into sausepan stir

You added something cold to something melted. It rehardened.

Butter, chocolate, syrup in a bowl, microwave, stir, microwave, stir. Bob's your uncle.

well the ones i made with syrup, drinking choc and butter havnt set in the fridge just cold and a bit soggy lol

stuff this im making scones!

I use just syrup and cocoa, not drinking choc. No butter either. Heat approx equal quantites of syrup and cocoa in a pan til runny, stir in as many rice krispies as you can, spoon into cake cases, put into fridge.

I made loads on Sat and they are still crispy and shiny and delicious today.

Top tip: use wet fingers to help get it off the spoon into the cases, no stickiness that way.

I don't know .

I manage 10 minutes by scraping the pan out and eating that.

Two reasons chocolate turns to grit

1. either it gets water in (syrup contains water) once it is melted.
2. overheated

solution to 1) is to start with unmelted chocolate and other ingredients and melt together, don't add stuff after melting

2. heat in a pudding basin sat in or over a pot of hot water. Make sure not a single drop drips in the melted chocolate. I prefer 30 secs at a time in the microwave.

ooh yes, hot syrup will melt chocolate beautifully. Do it that way! Melt butter and syrup together until very warm. Add chunks of chocolate and stir. No water basin or other crap.

I make them from Nigel Slaters recipe.

50 g butter, 4 tbs syrup, 100g chocolate and 75 g cornflakes. Melt the first 3 together, add to cornflakes. Divine....

I doubled the quantity and we stuck mini eggs on top. Half dark nd half milk chocolate.

Crispy cakes without butter and syrup are vile, solid unpleasant lumps IMO.

But you are missing the most important rule.

Real chocolate nests for Easter tea.

Nasty sticky coco things for the school cake stall, because they are way cheaper to make.

Anyway, ricecrispy marshmallow cakes, without chocolate are nicest of all.

Melt chocolate
Add rice crispies
Lick spoon and bowl