Deep fried candy bars sound mouthwatering to some people and rather unappetizing to others. Whether or not you have tried this unusual treat, it might interest you to learn a few facts about this dish, as well as its history.
Candy bars can be fried in the batter you normally use for fried chicken recipes, fish, or sausages, or you can use a coconut batter instead. Candy bars are chilled before they are battered. This stops the chocolate from melting into the hot fat.
This dish originated at a fried fish shop in Scotland as a novelty item but it soon because really popular. The Haven Chip Bar in Stonehaven is said to have invented this recipe in 1995. Stonehaven is near Aberdeen on the northeast coast of Scotland.
Three hundred fried fish shops were interviewed in 2004 and twenty two percent of them sold fried candy bars. An additional seventeen percent had sold them in the past.
Three quarters of these shops had only been selling them for the last three years and average sales were twenty three bars a week, although ten outlets sold between fifty and two hundred every week. The average price was one dollar and three quarters of the purchasers were children.
Deep Fried Candy Around the Globe
A British cafe called "Oh My Cod" in Bangkok, Thailand, lists this delicacy on their menu. This item was added to the menu as a joke at first but soon became very popular with locals and tourists. Reiver's Fish Bar in Scotland sells deep fried Easter eggs and along with Snickers bars cooked this way and they are very popular in the United States.
You can get deep-fried candy bars at the Bondi Surf Seafood Fish and Chip Shop in Sydney, Australia. The chocolate bar is coated in coconut batter, deep fried, and then sprinkled with powdered sugar.
New Zealand also has a number of outlets selling them. You can get deep fried Mars bars in Auckland's Bonzo Burger and deep fried Moro bars in the Acropolic fish and chip shop in Wellington.
New Zealanders love deep fried confectionary, especially Moro bars, which are sold in most fish and chip shops where there are a lot of tourists or a university nearby. Dunedin is the area in New Zealand with the most fried fish stores offering deep fried candy and they have been sold there since the late 1990s.
Recipe for Deep Fried Candy
Combine a cup of sifted all purpose flour with a teaspoon of salt and three quarters of a cup of water until the mixture is smooth. Let it stand at room temperature for half an hour. Stir quarter of a teaspoon of baking powder into the batter.
Heat some peanut oil in your deep fryer until it reaches 350 degrees F, then dip four caramel-covered candy bars into the batter and fry them in the hot oil for a few minutes, or until they are golden brown and crispy. Drain on paper towels and serve warm.
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