With Halloween just around the corner, it’s the ideal time to get baking some sweet treats. And Nigella Lawson has just the thing, with her three-ingredient honeycomb recipe.
Describing the recipe, she said: “Hokey pokey is a Cornish term for honeycomb. It is wonderful eaten in golden shards or crumbled into the best vanilla ice cream.”
The celebrity chef went on to claim “no one can resist a bit of hokey pokey,” before adding: “The quantities I’ve specified [for the recipe] don’t make an awful lot. But any more and you’d be sued by your dentist.”
Those who have tried out the recipe for themselves have reported good things with one commenting: “Works a treat! Make sure you measure exactly and don’t cook on too high a heat.”
Another said the recipe produced “delicious” and crispy real honeycomb pieces. Meanwhile, another said: “When I was little this was known as ‘puff candy; and it’s still my favourite treat… sometimes I dip the pieces in chocolate.”
For those eager to try out the recipe at home, here is everything you need to know to make Nigella Lawson’s hokey pokey honeycomb delight, as reported in the Express.
Nigella Lawson’s Honeycomb
Ingredients
- 100g caster sugar
- Four tablespoons of golden syrup
- One-and-a-half teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda
Method
- To start, put the sugar and syrup into a large, deep saucepan and stir together to mix (while the heat is completely off).
- Next, place the pan on the heat and let the mixture melt, turn to goo and then to a bubbling mass. It should be the colour of maple syrup with this process taking three minutes or so.
- Off the heat, whisk in the bicarbonate of soda and watch the syrup turn pale gold.
- Turn this immediately onto a piece of reusable baking parchment or greased foil. Leave until set and then break it apart so that it splinters into many pieces.