November 22, 2009: 'Honey'comb

recent Soulmama post generated some speculation almost vegan honeycomb. What's commonly called honeycomb hither inwards Commonwealth of Australia bears exclusively a passing resemblance to the wax-and-honey structures built past times bees - this crunchy, airy, sugary confection is known elsewhere equally sponge or cinder toffee, xanthous man, puff candy, hokey pokey or ocean foam. In fact, I was pretty certain that this materials doesn't normally fifty-fifty require honey! Indeed, the first recipe I came across was completely vegan. I approximate the milk chocolate that commercial honeycomb is typically covered is the major vegan impediment.

If I'd bothered to read further I would bring realised that this Sunday, when Melbourne was pelted alongside a book of pelting it rarely sees, provided really nearly the worst weather condition for honeycombin'. It seems that these ideally-rigid saccharide sponges volition happily soak upward whatever available wet inwards the air, rapidly reducing themselves to a gluey mess unless they're prepared as well as stored inwards the driest of conditions. Whoops. At to the lowest degree they nonetheless gustatory modality good. Especially when coated inwards comparatively bitter nighttime chocolate.


'Honey'comb
(based on a recipe contributed to All Recipes past times Nicola)

1 tablespoon golden syrup
1 tablespoon agave nectar (or simply role to a greater extent than golden syrup; I was all out)
1/2 loving cup castor sugar
1 heaped teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Paper-line as well as grease a pocket-size baking tray. Set aside a pocket-size loving cup of tap water.

Heat the golden syrup, agave nectar (if using) as well as saccharide inwards a medium-large saucepan. Bring them to the boil, as well as therefore simmer for 5-10 minutes. You need to larn the saccharide to a toffee-making phase - examination it past times spilling a drib of the syrup into the H2O cup; it's ready when the saccharide cools into a brittle toffee drop.

Take the saccharide syrup off the heat. Add the bicarb soda as well as stir it all together vigorously - it volition froth upward a lot! Spread the mixture into the cake tin equally chop-chop equally y'all can, equally it volition harden rapidly. Allow the honeycomb to laid completely at room temperature as well as store it inwards a dry out place.