Honeycomb Stix Food

HOMEMADE HONEYCOMB

Steps:

• Butter the base and sides of a 20cm non-stick square cake tin. (If your tin isn't non-stick, butter, then line with baking parchment).
• Melt the sugar and golden syrup in a deep saucepan over a low heat, stirring. Don't let it bubble until the sugar has dissolved completely.
• Once melted, turn up the heat and bring to a simmer. Cook until you have an amber-coloured caramel (this won't take long, but if you have a thermometer, it needs to reach 150C, so it doesn't get sticky when stored). As quickly as you can, remove from the heat, add the bicarb and beat with a wooden spoon until it's all absorbed and the mixture is foaming. Immediately scrape into the tin, but be careful, as the mixture will be very hot.
• Leave to cool for 1-1½ hrs until the honeycomb is hard - it will continue bubbling in the tin as it cools. Break into chunks before packaging.

HONEYCOMB STIX

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F (100 degrees C).
• Trim crusts from bread. Cut bread slices into 1/2 inch wide sticks. Bake the bread sticks in the oven for 2 hours. Remove from pan to cool.
• Melt peanut butter and oil together until melted. Drizzle in honey, stirring until well blended.
• Dip each baked stick in the peanut butter mixture. Roll each stick in the cornflake crumbs. Place the coated breadsticks on wax paper to set. Layer the sticks on top of each other in a container, separating the layers with wax paper. Freeze the cookies. Serve them direct from the freezer.