Saturday, January 12, 2008

Mars Bar/Milky Way Slice

The other day, I don't know what made me think of it, but I remembered a slice we used to make when I was in school.
In Australia, we call this "Mars Bar Slice", because we use Mars Bars... But our Mars Bars are what Americans call Milky Way!
I have adapted the recipe for American measurements, and this recipe will do a double batch, which will fit a regular rectangle baking dish.



Grease your baking dish/slice tray.

Australian Ingredients:
6 x 65g Mars Bars, chopped
180g Butter
6 cups Rice Bubbles

American Ingredients:
6.5 x 58g Milky Way bars (total of 195g needed), chopped
180g butter (approx. 1 stick of butter plus almost 7 tbsp. butter.)
6 cups of Rice Krispies

Chop up the Mars Bars/Milky Way bars and combine them in a saucepan with the butter over low heat, without boiling, until the mixture is melted and smooth. (This will take quite a while, and you need to watch it carefully and keep stirring it. DO NOT turn the temperature up, no matter how tempted you are to get it done quicker.)

Stir the mixture into the Rice Bubbles/Rice Krispies until they look evenly coated. Press the mixture into the greased dish/tray.


Icing/Topping Ingredients:
400g Milk Chocolate (I ONLY use Cadbury for this. But you can use whatever.)
60g Butter (American: approx. 4.5 tbsp butter, or just over half a stick of butter)

Melt the butter and broken up chocolate in a bowl over hot water, stirring constantly until melted and smooth.
Spread the chocolate evenly over the slice mixture and refrigerate until topping is set.

Cut slice into squares. Store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator, or freeze wrapped very well in plastic wrap and foil.


Enjoy!

2 comments:

Tim Tam said...

Thats my girl, we'll turn them all Aussie yet!!
They'll all be eating Vegemite & Tim Tams before we know it!!

Merryn said...

I just made that batch today, and Matt has yet to taste them... He can't wait, though!
I took photos as I made them, but decided to only put in the "finished product".