Beer-battered Chocolate Bars

Beer-battered Chocolate Bars

There’s something about a beer-battered, deep-fried block of chocolate for dessert that can’t be topped. But go for it and top it with ice cream as well. This is one of the few recipes that I occasionally look at and think, well, that’s a bit much. Eat while sitting down with your next of kin notified as the calorie coma can set in almost immediately.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 5 minutes mins

freezing time 3 hours hrs

Course Dessert

Servings 1 litre

Ingredients

  

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• 4 vegan chocolate bars (about 50 g each)
• canola oil, for deep-frying
• 75 g (½ cup) self-raising flour (see note)
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) chilled beer (see Note)

Suggested toppings

• sea salt flakes
• vegan chocolate sauce
• vegan chocolate cookies, broken into chunks
• soy or rice whip 
• pretzels

Instructions

 

• Place the chocolate bars in the freezer for 2–3 hours to firm up. 
• Heat the canola oil in a large heavy-based saucepan over medium-high heat. Test if the oil is ready by inserting a wooden skewer or the handle of a wooden spoon into the oil; if it begins to bubble quickly then you’re ready to go.
• Place the flour in a small bowl and season with salt and pepper. Toss the frozen chocolate bars in the flour to lightly coat, then remove and set aside on a plate.
• Pour the beer into the flour, stirring constantly, to create a batter. You may not need it all, so go slowly until the batter is runny but not so runny that it won’t cling to the chocolate.
• Dip each chocolate bar into the batter until completely coated. One at a time, scoop the bars out with as much batter as you can keep clinging to them, then bravely drop the battered bars into the oil.
• Cook for 2–3 minutes, until golden brown and crisp.
• Remove the chocolate bars using a slotted spoon and drain them on a paper towel.
• Serve warm with a sprinkling of fat sea salt flakes, chocolate sauce, chocolate cookies, soy or rice whip and a few pretzels, or whatever sweet garnishes you have lying around.

Notes

Notes

• For a gluten-free version of this dessert, use soda water (club soda) instead of beer and replace the flour with gluten-free flour.

Recipe Creator

Recipes extracted from Vegan Junk Food by Zacchary Bird, published by Smith Street Books, RRP $39.99. Photography © Pete Dillon, Food Stylist © Bridget Wald
https://www.smithstreetbooks.com/books/vegan-junk-food/

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