In honour of St. Andrew's day, Scottish food is definitely on the menu for tonight! Far from what you may think Everythingfood will feature, the craving for a deep-fried Mars bar is too high. Thankfully, that was invented in Scotland so we may proceed with giving you the following instructions.
Firstly, sorry to any American readers but Mars bars are no longer commercially available. Give this a go with any other of your favourite chocolate bars though… not Hershey's, they will probably implode from lack of flavour. A Musketeer bar would work to great effect however.
Make sure your chocolate bar is cold. For that, leave it in the refrigerator for a little while. If you don't have one of those, throw it out the window and let the snow do something useful for you for a change.
For the batter you will need:
500 g Plain Flour
315 ml full fat milk (it's a deep fried Mars bar, don't need to pretend to be healthy by using low fat milk).
100 g caster sugar
Preheat deep fryer or wide pan with a lot of oil in it (safety first however) to 190 degrees C
Prepare the batter with milk, flour and sugar. For those of you who would like to take it a step further, you may use beer instead of milk. The amounts given are proportionate so you may end up with too much batter. You could just wing it with the ingredients and see how it goes, especially if you don't have caster sugar handy and want to try normal granulated sugar, on your head be it though.
Dunk in your cold chocolate bars into the batter making sure the whole of them are covered. If your batter keeps slipping off it isn't thick enough so add in a bit more flour and sugar. If the batter is thick enough, maybe you are looking for the wrong type of thick; you have probably left the wrapper on the chocolate bar. Do please remember to take that off first.
Fry until the batter is golden brown. The chocolate should melt in the centre, but only after the batter has contained it (which is why you have to make sure the entire chocolate bar is covered.)
Although it is tempting, do not eat them straight away. Let the things cool a little before you attack, or they could and up attacking you instead.
Happy St. Andrew's Day!