Making Mars Bar Chocolate Crackles with Marshmallows

Hi guys. 

Today we are going to be making Mars Bar Chocolate crackles with marshmallows.  Now these are not at all healthy but they are delicious and great to pack for school lunches. Now, they don't require an oven but they do require a stove, so make sure your parents are aware that you are using it. The ingredients make 15 very full crackles so if you make them small, you could end up with a lot! I've filmed a video of me making these so feel free to watch that:

Ingredients:

3 cups of rice bubbles

1 packet of mini mars bars

2 packets of 200g milk chocolate

1 packet of mini marshmallows

Let’s get started!

Method:

1.  You want to break the chocolate into individual pieces. (This helps with melting them)
2. You want to fill a medium to small pot of water and put it on the stove. (It doesn’t have to be boiling)
3. For 3-5 minutes you want to melt the chocolate on the water. Until completely smooth. (Be careful you don’t burn it.)
4. Now add in the rest of the ingredients, so the cups of rice bubbles, the marshmallows and the mars bars. (Beware that these come individually wrapped so they can take a while.)
5. Add in the chocolate and stir.
6. Fill in the cupcake cases with the mixture.

Now this mixture isn’t like cupcake mixture where it fills in the empty spaces so you might need to go back and add more on.

7. Once you’ve done that, it’s into the fridge for an hour or so.

      

 1 hour later…

What they should look like

8. Enjoy!!

- Imogen

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