Can't even make choclate crispie cakes

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I am a pretty reasonable cook and actually baking cakes is one of the things I am best at...BUT...I fail dismally at making the simplest choclate rice crispie cakes.

The recipe I used said to melt choclate and golden syrup together, I put both these in a bowl and into the microwave and the whole lot went all grainy and clodgey, I had to chuck it away. I retried then by just melting choclate and didn't risk doing anything else and added the rice crispies to that, result was ok but didn't have that nice slightly chewy quality that I remember these having as a child.

Do you think I over-heated the choclate? If I had put the syrup and the choclate together in a bain marie would I have avoided this...

Feel like a total Dunce!

I do bain marie - more control. I put in syrup and butter when choc half melted.

It is easy to overheat choc.

Last time I made them I did a bain marie but melted the choclate and then added the syrup when the choc was all melted and it did the same thing, i thought this was because i added something cold to hot choclate...so hence the decision to do it altogether this time.

Couldn't do Bain marie as DD2 broke my only pyrex bowl...i will get a new one and try doing it your way nethunsreject (like the name btw) if that doesn't work i will officially give up trying to make these!

I screwed up rice crispy cakes last week too! I decided at the last minute to stick some golden syrup in and I think the coldness upset the chocolate!

Crispie cakes are Not Easy

but did you add butter? I use the Nigel Slater recipe which is crap cook proof ( it must be as even I can manage it!)

50G BUTTER
100G COOKING CHOCOLATE
4 TABLESPOONS GOLDEN SYRUP

melt butter, syrup and choc slowly in a small pan then pour over 75g of cornflakes or rice krispies. Put into cupcake cases and leave to set in fridge.

I guarantee it will succeed!