What’s a twinkie? We don’t have them here
As I child I’d kill for a Polly waffle. It was discontinued a few years ago but was recently renewed due to popular demand.
Polly Waffle is a 50 gram Australian chocolate bar. It is a waffle wafer tube filled with marshmallow and coated in compound chocolate. The confection had been introduced in 1947 by the Hoadley's Chocolate Company, then taken over by Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery in 1972. When Rowntree Mackintosh was acquired by Nestlé in 1988, the Swiss company continued producing Polly Waffles until it was discontinued in 2009.
In 2019, it was announced that Australian confectioner Robern Menz, since Ja...
Today I sometimes go to the factory to get seconds "Honeycomb’’ ( in chocolate covered lumps) which I love. Although the recipe is simple, I discovered only this year that’s a lot harder to make than it might seem.
Honeycomb toffee, honeycomb candy, sponge toffee, cinder toffee, seafoam, or hokey pokey is a sugary toffee with a light, rigid, sponge-like texture. Its main ingredients are typically brown sugar (or corn syrup, molasses or golden syrup) and baking soda, sometimes with an acid such as vinegar. The baking soda and acid react to form carbon dioxide which is trapped in the highly viscous mixture. When acid is not used, thermal decomposition of the baking soda releases carbon dioxide. The sponge-lik...