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Ivor Jones’s Easter honeycomb smash hot cross buns

Serves 6

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes, plus 1 hour’s cooling time

Cooking Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

For the honeycomb:

325 g sugar
125 g glucose
50 g honey
20 g bicarbonate of soda

For the ice-cream:

1 litre stracciatella ice cream
100 g Lindt milk chocolate mini gold bunnies, crushed
½ cup mini marshmallows
3 Woolworths candy-coated milk chocolate hen’s eggs, smashed

For the chocolate sauce:

½ cup dessert cream
4 chocolate marshmallow Easter eggs

For serving:

6 hot cross buns, halved and toasted

Method

1. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.

2. Place the sugar, glucose and honey in a saucepan over a medium heat. Cook until the mixture reaches 155°C on a sugar thermometer. Remove from the heat and immediately stir in the bicarbonate of soda. Pour into the prepared tray and allow to cool completely, then break into pieces.

3. In a large bowl, fold the crumbled honeycomb, chocolate bunnies, mini marshmallows and hen's eggs into the ice cream. Return to the freezer to firm up.

4. To make the chocolate sauce, heat the cream in a saucepan and stir in the chocolate marshmallow Easter eggs until smooth and melted.

5. To assemble, scoop the ice cream onto the toasted hot cross bun halves. Drizzle with warm chocolate sauce, top with the remaining bun halves, and serve immediately.

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Photographer: Shavan Rahim
Videographer: Romy Wilson
Food assistant: Bianca Jones
Stylist: Abigail Donnelly

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Ivor Jones’s Easter honeycomb smash hot cross buns

Ivor Jones’s Easter honeycomb smash hot cross buns

Ingredients

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