Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Willy Wonka’s Nutty Crunch Surprise Recipe

Happy International Chocolate Day! To pay tribute to this wondrous, sweet day, we thought we’d share a recipe inspired by one of the biggest chocoholic of all times; Roald Dahl.

Roald Dahl’s love for chocolate

Roald Dahl devoted a whole chapter to chocolate in The Roald Dahl Cookbook saying “My passion for chocolate did not really begin until I was fourteen or fifteen years old.” He then gives his readers a list of the History Of Chocolate:

“Cadburys made Dairy Milk in 1905

Cadburys made Bourneville Bar in 1910

Cadburys made Fruit and Nut in 1921…

1930 the Crunchie, the Whole Nut Bar

’32 Mars (600 million a year)”

’33 Black Magic

’34 Tiffin, Caramello

’35 Aero

’36 Maltesers… Quality Street

’37 Another great year, Kit Kat, Rollo [sic], Smarties…”

And ends by saying “”Don’t bother with the Kings and Queens of England. All of you should learn these dates instead. Perhaps the Headmistress will see from now on that it becomes part of the major teaching in this school.”

Dahl also had a red chocolate box, which he would offer his fellow diners treats from every day after dinner. Dahl’s wife, Liccy has said “With the coffee he would place on the table a grubby plastic box crammed with chocolate goodies, irresistible to dogs, children and adults alike.”

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

Dahl’s love for chocolate seeped into his books as well. In ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‘, a young boy called Charlie is invited into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory which has magical chocolate products like chocolate which can be transported by television and a chocolate room.

Charlie wins an invitation to the factory after getting a golden ticket from a bar of Wonka’s chocolate. He first tries to win the ticket through a bar of chocolate he got for his birthday. After that, his grandfather gives him a small amount of money (his family is extremely poor) with which he buys a bar of Wonka’s Nutty Crunch Surprise. While that doesn’t have the golden ticket, the scene goes a long way in building up anticipation and making us hope that Charlie’s next try will get him the ticket.

“Have you got it?’ whispered Grandpa

Joe, his eyes shining with excitement.

Charlie nodded and held out the bar

of chocolate. WONKA’S NUTTY CRUNCH SURPRISE, it said on the wrapper.”

Here’s how you can make a bar of Wonka’s Nutty Crunch surprise yourself. Try your hand at Wonka’s liquid waterfall and enjoy both as a decadent desert this International Chocolate Day!

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Willy Wonka's Nutty Crunch Surprise

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Ingredients

• 7 ounces plain chocolate
• 1/4 cup butter
• 5 tbsp golden syrup
• 3/4 cups rich tea biscuits crushed
• 1.3 cup flaked almonds
• 2 tbsp rice crispies
• 3 drops vanilla

For the nutty crunch

• 1/4 cup Almonds finely chopped
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 tbsp Water

For the coating

• 7 ounces milk chocolate broken

Servings MetricUS Imperial Ingredients 7 ounces plain chocolate 1/4 cup butter 5 tbsp golden syrup 3/4 cups rich tea biscuits crushed 1.3 cup flaked almonds 2 tbsp rice crispies 3 drops vanilla For the nutty crunch 1/4 cup Almonds finely chopped 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2 tbsp Water For the coating 7 ounces milk chocolate broken

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Instructions

1. Combine seven ounces of the plain chocolate, butter and golden syrup and melt in a bowl over a saucepan of water.
2. Stir in the almonds, biscuits, rice crispies and vanilla essence.
3. Pour the mixture into a lined tin and allow to cool.
4. Place in a fridge until completely solid and cut into bars.

To make the nutty crunch

1. Combine the water and sugar and heat until the sugar dissolves.
2. Turn the heat up and stir until the sugar caramelises.
3. Take off the stove and add the almonds.
4. Stir and dip one end of the bars in the mixture.
5. Lay the bars out on the greaseproof paper.
6. Met the milk chocolate and dip the other end of the bars in it.
7. Allow to cool on greaseproof paper and then serve.