The totally awesome Baked Mars Bar {Bake Milky Way Bar}
A Baked Mars Bar, a delicious treat for when you can’t get to Scotland for the original fried mars bar.
Prep Time1 hourhr
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: British
Keyword: baked, baking, chocolate, chocolate bar, pastry
Servings: 6people
Author: Matt
Ingredients
2Cupsflour
1tspsalt
2 1/4stickscold butter
3/4Cupcold water
6Mars Barsindividually frozen
1egg
Instructions
Rough puff pastry
If you don't want to make your own pastry, then buy some ready made puff pastry and jump to the next section.
Make your pastry dough but chopping the butter into small chunks and mixing with the flour. Use your fingers to rub the butter into the flour, or use a pastry cutter to make this job MUCH easier. Once done, add 2/3 of the water and mix, continue to add water only until the dough comes together. Chill for 30 minutes.
Turn out dough on a floured board. Knead gently, you don’t want the butter to start to melt, and shape the dough into a rectangle. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough in one direction only, roll the dough until 3 times the width, about 20 x 50cm. Do this quickly, again we want the butter to stay cold. Place back in the fridge for 15 minutes.
Time for the turns! Fold the dough by taking the top and bottom third and fold over each other. Rotate (or turn!) the dough by a quarter and repeat previous step. Place back in the fridge for 15 minutes to firm up the butter.
Making baked Mars bars/ baked Milky Way bars
Place the bars into the freezer, and ensure the chocolate bars are fully frozen before you use them. When ready, turn the oven to 400F. It needs to be at this temperature before you start to prep the bars.
Roll the pastry into rectangles, enough to wrap around the bar. Brush the inside of the pastry with beaten egg, and wrap up the pastry around the bars. Seal the pastry, and brush the outside with remaining egg wash. Place directly onto a parchment-lined sheet, and shove immediately into the oven. Bake until crispy golden brown. Let cool, dust with icing sugar.
Notes
You don't need to make the rough puff pastry. If you prefer, buy a roll of ready-made puff pastry. It won't taste exactly the same, but will save you time and kitchen mess!