ok what's your best fool proof choc crispy cake recipie? pretty please.........

[eleanorsmum]

Hi, need to make alot of these for egg hunt on sat and don't want them to be crumbly like mine usually are so whats the best recipie you have for fool proof crispy cakes? also am hoping to change rice crispies for shredded wheat for more nest like appearance!

melt a mars bar in with the chocolate

Erm....good chocolate, rice krispies, make sure you set them in a fridge and they are rock hard.

Also when stirring in the krispies do it really gently so you don't break them.
and put in fewer krispies than you think you should, to make them more chocolatey.

Can't help with the shreddies I'm afraid.

Cornflakes might be easier than shredded wheat for a nest like appearance?

I am going to use cornflakes. Not sure shredded wheat would actually work, although never tried it!

I just use chocolate on mine although you can put syrup in to make it more sticky.

plain 2 min noodles give it a nesty look.

Do you have copha in UK? Recipes here include 1 tablespoon copha when melting the chocolate and it all holds really well.

copha not easy to get hold of, but adding a sppoonful of butter and one of golden syrup to the choc will help

mama - don't think so whats copha like?

anyone got ay quantities for me? 100g of choc to how much cereal or is it guess work? also how much syrup or what size mars bar, like that idea

I just melt whatever I've got then stir in cereal till the texture's right

I just use guess work - start off with lots of chocolate and add krispies bit by bit.

Ooh like the mrs bar colditz I am gonna try that! We just melt the choc then gradually add the cereal until there is enough!

If you make extra EM send them over here.

I hate these threads!

Whats wrong with melted choc & cornflakes?!

For non crumbly ones my mums best method was always:

cornflakes
coco-powder
syrup - 2 tablespoons [roughly]
stir....yummy....drool...I wanna make crsipie cakes too.

Put some syrup in.

Mmmmm crispie cakes

nigella has a receipe for them in one of her books and they are lovely - I think its the feast one, nothing spectacular though - just mars bar added as well

here

The chocolate plus crispies version is surely non-crumbly provided you don't put too many crispies in. The chocolate sets hard and holds it all together! Doesn't it? Mine always have been fine, it's the syrup/butter/cocoa ones that are crumbly/fall apart.