Beginners are on to a winner with our Mars Bar Cake

Our Mars Bar Cake is a perfect treat for chocolate lovers as well as a great snack idea for children’s parties.

The cake is simple to make using few ingredients including four Mars Bars which give them their sweet caramel flavour.

Fun Fact – ‘Pleasure you can’t measure’, ‘A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play’ and ‘Who knows? In 1,000 years we could all be sitting on Mars eating Earth bars’ - were advertising slogans used by Mars Inc. in the UK to promote the chocolate bars.

Ingredients:

4 Mars bars

130g butter

85g crispy rice cereal

250g chocolate

Chocolate Icing (optional)

Instructions:

• Melt the Mars bars and 90g butter in a bowl above a pan of boiling water.

• Once smooth stir in the crispy rice cereal.

• Press the mixture into a greased tray.

• Melt the chocolate and the remaining 40g butter and stir them together until they become smooth.

• Pour over the mixture in the tray.

• Place the tray in the fridge for one hour.

• Cut into slices or triangles to serve.

• Decorate the top with chocolate icing (optional).