vegan mars bars?

I haven't tried these yet but when I have I'll say how it went...apparently there was going to be a campaign to convince Mars to start making vegan versions of mars bars but then someone realised they're fascist multinational corporate capitalist pigs (or something...I don't think you can be fascist and multinational at the same time but you never know with the likes of mars) and they did tests on monkeys (that's 'munkys' Joey) too. The bastards. Anyway, the recipe.

ARES BARS

Vegan Mars Bars

Uncle Stevies recipe column (Steve @ Veggies, Nottingham)

The Hard Way:

NOUGAT

  • 2 Cup of Soya Milk
  • 9 oz. Soya Marg.
  • 24 oz. Sugar
  • 2 tblsp. Vanilla Essence
  • 12 oz. dried Soya Milk
Put the milk, marge and sugar into a thick saucepan and heat, without stirring, on a low heat until it bubbles all over and triples in size.
Keep at this heat for 2 min (if you have a sugar thermometer, it should be 235 F./112.8 C.)
Cool.
Add the vanilla essence and the dried soya milk and beat till creamy.
Pour into baking trays roughly the size of 48 mars bars and freeze for an hour.

TOFFEE

  • 12 oz. Sugar
  • 12 oz. Soya Marge
  • 250 ml Soya cream
  • 3 tbsp Golden Syrup
Put everything in a thick bottomed saucepan and heat on a low heat till it bubbles all over and triples in size
Keep at this temperature for 4-5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Pour the toffee over the nougat and freeze for another hour.
Cut into mars bar size pieces and re-freeze until the toffee is solid (this can take a couple of days.)
Melt 1200g of vegan chocolate in a microwave if you have one (3 minutes full power per 100g) or place into a bowl above a saucepan of boiling water till melted.
Coat the bars with chocolate and place onto a greased tray. Re-freeze.

The Marathon Variation (Thermopylae Bars):

Replace vanilla essence with 340g jar of crunchy peanut butter (without the jar) & 20g chopped, un-salted peanuts

The Easy Way:

Buy one from Veggies at many good demos - but arrive early!
(This is very unlikely - it takes 2 people 2 days to make a batch of 100, so the Vegan Mars Bar is a very rare treat!)