ARES BARS
Vegan Mars Bars
Uncle Stevies recipe column
The Hard Way:
* recipe slightly revised, February 2003
NOUGAT
- 2 Cup of Soya Milk
- 9 oz. Soya Marg.
- 24 oz. Sugar
- 2 tblsp. Vanilla Essence
- * 12 oz dried soya milk - soya flour works as a substitute
- * Add 2 tbsp malt extract
Put the milk, marge and sugar into a thick saucepan and heat, without stirring, on a low heat until it bubbles all over and triples in size.
Keep at this heat for 2 min (if you have a sugar thermometer, it should be 235 F./112.8 C.)
Cool.
Add the vanilla essence, malt extract and dried soya milk (or soya flour) and beat till creamy.
Pour into baking trays roughly the size of 48 mars bars, greased and lined with greaseproof paper, and freeze for an hour.
(*You could pour and freeze a base layer of chocolate first, see below).
TOFFEE
- 12 oz. Sugar
- 12 oz. Soya Marge
- * 125ml soya cream. Concentrated soya milk (Plamil) will work instead.
- 3 tbsp Golden Syrup
Put everything in a thick bottomed saucepan and heat on a low heat till it bubbles all over and triples in size
Keep at this temperature for 4-5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Pour the toffee over the nougat and freeze for another hour.
Cut into mars bar size pieces and re-freeze until the toffee is solid (this can take a couple of days.)
CHOCOLATE
Melt 1200g of vegan chocolate in a microwave if you have one (3 minutes full power per 100g) or place into a bowl above a saucepan of boiling water till melted.
Coat the bars with chocolate and place onto a greased tray. Re-freeze.
The Marathon Variation (Thermopylae Bars):
Replace vanilla essence with 340g jar of crunchy peanut butter (without the jar) & 20g chopped, un-salted peanuts
The Easy Way:
Buy one from Veggies at many good demos - but arrive early!
(This is very unlikely - it takes 2 people 2 days to make a batch of 100, so the Vegan Mars Bar is a very rare treat!)
If you'd like to become our confectionary volunteer we'd look forward to hearing from you...
For more yummy cake recipies see Ronny's 'Cake Scoffer', available from Veggies at many good events, or for £1.50 inc p&p from Veggies, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX.