Hokey Pokey

The quantities I've specified don't make an awful lot - enough to fill a little tin 12cm in diameter by 6cm deep - but any more and you'd be sued by your dentist.

100g caster sugar

4 x 15ml tablespoons golden syrup

11/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

Put the sugar and syrup into a saucepan and stir together to mix. You mustn't stir once the pan's on the heat, though.

Place the pan on the heat and let the mixture first melt, then turn to goo and then to a bubbling mass the colour of maple syrup - this will take 3 minutes or so.

Off the heat, whisk in the bicarbonate of soda and watch the syrup turn into a whooshing cloud of aerated pale gold. Turn this immediately onto a piece of reusable baking parchment or greased foil.

Leave until set and then bash at it, so that it splinters into many glinting pieces.

Serves
Makes 125g

Main ingredients
Sugar

Recipe Type
Party Food, Cakes & Baking, Easy, Entertaining, Kids Food, Gifts

Special Info
Dairy free

Level of Difficulty
Easy