To tell if your sugar syrup is at hard crack stage without a thermometer, you'll need a bowl of very cold water. With a food thermometer, you can easily determine if your hot sugar syrup has reached hard crack stage: test with the thermometer until it reaches 300F/150C. You'll just need to test the hot sugar syrup in cold water to reach the correct stage: hard crack stage. Making honeycomb without a thermometerĪlthough a candy thermometer makes it easier to make homemade honeycomb, you can still make it without one. Remove the pan from the heat.ģ - quickly but carefully (it will be hot!) stir in baking soda with a wooden spoon, then pour into prepared pan to set at room temperature.
#HONEYCOMB RECIPE HOW TO#
You'll need these quickly and won't have time to search for them!Ģ - heat the sugar and syrup in a heavy saucepan to hard crack stage (150C / 300F) or see below for how to tell without a thermometer. Prepare the bicarb of soda (baking soda), and keep a thermometer and wooden spoon to hand.
#HONEYCOMB RECIPE FULL#
Scroll down for step-by-step honeycomb recipe instructions and the full recipe!ġ - mix the sugar and syrup in a heavy-bottomed pot.
This recipe doesn't have any swaps to make it vegan, it just naturally is because none of the traditional honeycomb recipe ingredients contain animal products. It may be surprising, considering there is honey in the name (honey isn't vegan), but honeycomb is naturally vegan! This is a basic honeycomb recipe (it's naturally vegan), that I've made extra special with salted chocolate.įood thermometer (optional, but useful!) Vegan honeycomb
Then just stir in the bicarb of soda, pour it into a pan and let it cool. I use a digital candy thermometer so it's super-easy to know when the sugar has reached the right temperature. It's much easier with a food thermometer so you know when you get to the 'hard crack' stage of 140C.
This is definitely my best honeycomb recipe and I hope you all love it too! Making honeycombĪlthough hot sugar can seem scary, it's actually quite easy to make honeycomb. The creamy chocolate is lovely against the brittle and sweet shards of honeycomb, which are then offset with the sea salt. You can enjoy honeycomb on its own, but I love it dipped in melted dark chocolate and sprinkled with a few flakes of sea salt. It's a mix of sugar, syrup and baking soda - meaning it's actually vegan.Īnd, let me tell ya, people - IT IS AMAZING! Seriously.Įven if you make it as a gift, you will want to keep it all to yourself and give them a box of chocolates. Regardless of the name, it doesn't actually have any honey in it! If you've ever had a Crunchie bar, you've had chocolate covered honeycomb. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Made this recipe many times for honeycombed ice cream" - Anj Homemade honeycomb ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"These were so dreamy! I didn't know chocolate honeycomb was so easy to make!" - Taylor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"WOW!!! I just made this, so EASY, and so DELICIOUS!!! I’m not sure one batch will be enough…my kids are devouring it…and I may be helping them!" - Terri ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"OMG I LOVE this chocolate covered honeycomb and have made this over Xmas to give as gifts! Thanks for the recipe" - Jane You only need 15 minutes and 5 ingredients to make these fantastic treats. I'd love to make some of those Christmas biscuits iced like lacy doilies, but I always seem to run out of time.Īnd frankly, I probably don't have the patience to decorate them very artistically!īut there are some homemade food gifts that don't take long to make, and are always welcome from the lucky recipient!Įnter: salted chocolate honeycomb. Do you make foodie Christmas gifts for people? I'll be honest that I often intend to, but then life gets in the way.
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