I am intrigued by this, but yes, those Peppermint Crisps aren’t available in the US, and ordering them in is stupid expensive.
I’d bet this would be tasty using our Butterfinger candy bars, though - they’re a different flavor (peanut butter) but they’re crispy, which would at least preserve that aspect, and the flavor would go well with the other ingredients.
It also makes me wonder about Nestle - Butterfinger is their product too, and I don’t know why they think some of their other products (like the Aero bars) wouldn’t fly here. I love Aero bars and get one whenever I am in a place they are available.
I must be spending too much time with college students. If they heard “there’s a bar in the breakroom” or “everybody likes bars” I guarantee that the first type of bar they would think of would be the one that serves alcohol.
I was hooked on peppermint crisp chocolate when I lived in the UK. But sadly, not only do they not seem to have it outside the Commonwealth zone, it’s not even available in Australia. ISTR there was a Cadbury peppermint chip bar in the supermarkets very *very *briefly (once, for 20 minutes…) but apart from that, chocolate makers here seem to believe that all peppermint in chocolate should be goo.
Which makes me sad, since I kinda hate goo, and love peppermint
I’m told by a native that the closest thing in a candy an American might recognize would be a York Peppermint Pattie, but without the vivid green crystalline nature of the real thing.
There is no rule that a slice contain coconut, although, in my experience, a significant number of Aussie recipes do use coconut. It certainly seems more common in baked goods in Australia than in the US. Our national “cookie,” the Anzac biscuit. contains coconut.
That said, I was actually somewhat surprised to see coconut in the caramel slice recipe that i linked in my earlier post. I didn’t expect that, and i’ve certainly had caramel slice where the base was basically a plain cookie-style base, with no coconut.
Here’s a recipe for vanilla slice, sometimes known as custard slice. This is one of the more common slices you’ll find in Aussie pastry shops, and it contains no coconut.
Coconut in baked goods and confectionary is generally considered loathsome by patriotic Americans.
No offense meant, and these things look FANTASTIC, even to a not-much-sweet-tooth guy like me.
Also, “bars” are dense cakes cut into bar shape and served at Lutheran coffee hours after church on Sunday mornings in the desolate Northsome lands of Wisconsin and Minnesota. “Bars” are unknown in the more civilized parts of the country.
