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Chocolate Mangers - My Family’s Christmas Treat

Okay, so this is our Christmas traditional treat/snack, and they are absolutely f’ing delicious. However, since being diagnosed as a Type 1 diabetic, I’ve seriously had to watch my sugar intake and I’m wary of eating these. So, because my fun has been ruined, I’m going to share the recipe with all of you!

At first this looks straightforward: just a chocolate rice crispie treat with an icing baby Jesus instead of eggs. Ohhhhh no, dear friends. My fam’s recipe is far superior. You know how if you melt chocolate over rice crispies, it just hardens and then shatters the second you bite into it, sending chocolate shards and rice crispies everywhere? These don’t do that, and I’ll give you one reason: Golden Syrup. The Lyles stuff, straight from the tin. It gums everything together so instead of shattering, it squishes.

Right, that’s enough of me gushing over the brilliance of these. Let me tell you how to make ‘em!

Recipe:

Ingredients:

Shredded Wheat (for authentic-looking straw)

Cocoa Powder - at least 2 tablespoonsfull. We used to use drinking chocolate but if you want it to be a bit less sickly, stick to unsweetened cocoa. The sweetness is provided by the syrup.

Golden Syrup - at least 4 large serving spoonsfull. Sometimes if we’re making a lot of mangers we use up to half a can. This stuff is vital.

2 heaped tablespoons of Margerine (I assume butter would be fine too, but I’ve never tried. Use butter if you want to make these even more naughty)

For Baby Jesus:

Marzipan or Jelly Babies or Smarties or Chocolate Buttons 

Icing sugar

Milk or water

I don’t actually have exact measurements for any of this stuff. We just eyeball it and it usually comes out fine. This makes at least 20 mangers, but can be more or less, depending on how big you make them.

Method:

First, the boring bit: crushing the Shredded Wheat. We usually take out the individual paper sleeves and smash at them with a rolling pin. Then we use the paper packaging to protect our fingers as we crumble them. No, you can’t cheat and use a blender or food processor. You will end up with sawdust. Keep some extra on hand. You will likely need so much more than you think you do.

Don’t forget to set out some little cake cups in advance. We usually put ours on a tray for easy transportation and turning. I’ve never tried with silicone cups but I assume they would be fine too.

Find a big saucepan or pot and put it on the stove on medium heat. We’ve got an old casserole pot we usually use. Something with a thicc bottom that will keep things warm and malleable and reduce the chance of burning the Golden Syrup.

Melt the margerine in the pot, then add the two spoonfuls of cocoa powder. Stir until combined.

Add at least two heaped serving spoons of Golden Syrup. Stir that in until everything is nice and warm and liquid. You should have a dark, chocolatey treacle in the bottom of the pan.

Now you can pour in your crushed Shredded Wheat and start stirring. Keep going until everything is covered. This takes a lot of work and your arm will feel like it’s going to fall off but trust me it’s worth it. If you need more mixture to cover the straw, add more Golden Syrup. If you need more straw, crush and add more Shredded Wheat. You will not need more margerine or chocolate powder. Trust me. Do not make that mistake. You will end up with lumpy, powdery mangers.

Once you’re satisfied that all the ingredients have got to know each other, turn the heat down very low: just low enough to keep the chocolate melted. But you’ll still have to work fast! It helps if there’s two of you for this job, so this is an excellent group activity. 

Take at least a spoonful of the shredded wheat-syrup-chocolate mixture and press it into your cupcake cup, making sure there’s a little dip in the middle. This is where you’ll put Baby Jesus later. Don’t worry about being neat; this is a manger.

Keep going until you have no mixture left. It’s quite usual to get a small ‘runty’ manger at the end of it. Eat that for a reward!

Immediately put your cooking pot in the sink and fill with warm soapy water. Otherwise the remnants of the mixture will stick and be a pain to get off.

Leave your mangers to cool. Once they are safely cool, you can make Baby Jesus! The swaddling clothes are icing, of course. Make your icing very thick, otherwise it will simply run through your manger and look like a broken egg.

For the head of Baby Jesus, your options are open. Our usual method is to roll a ball of marzipan in the dark cocoa powder to get it a medium brown colour (because Jesus wasn’t white, people). I actually don’t like marzipan, so occasionally I’ve used Smarties or chocolate buttons. If you really want, you could use Jelly Babies, but you’d have to put them on first before the icing. Put faces on the heads if you really want to freak people out, either with icing or a cocktail stick.

And that’s it! We also used this recipe at Easter, replacing Baby Jesus with eggs for nests. Enjoy these little bundles of delish. But be warned, they’re murder on your teeth and obviously diabetics, consume with care.

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