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COPYCAT CANDY BAR TREAT WhatChaMaCallIt
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Mar 14, 2025
COPYCAT CANDY BAR TREAT WhatChaMaCallIt. Remember when this candy bar came out? It became one of my favorites back in the 1980's. With rice krispies, peanut butter, caramel, and chocolate. Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/whatchamacallit-candy-bar-copycat-recipe/ **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media Facebook @ https://facebook.com/catherinesplates/ YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvgtfqhHTKI5kymcLKeyxg Pinterest @ https://www.pinterest.com/CatherinesPlates/ TikTok @ https://www.tiktok.com/@catherinesplates Rumble @ https://rumble.com/c/c-1642522
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hello everyone welcome back to
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Catherine's plates we are going to make
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a coffee cat candy bar treat do y all
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remember the Whatchamacallit candy bars
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I think these came out in the 1980s I
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seem to remember when they did come out
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it became one of my favorite candy bars
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we got chocolate Rice Krispies peanut
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butter and caramel all in the same
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treat
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yum that's all you need we got the Rice
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Krispies we've got peanut butter butter
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chocolate chips these are
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semisweet we're going to be using a
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little bit of milk marshmallows and some
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caramel bits all right let's wrap all of
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this together and make a copycat candy
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bar Whatchamacallit the first thing that
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you're going to want to do is prepare
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your baking dish now we're not cooking
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this but we are going to form it in the
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baking dish we're going to spray it with
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some non-stick cooking spray that way we
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can get it out of the baking dish
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depending on how thick you want your
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candy bar as to how big your dish is
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going to be I'm using an 8X 11 so it'll
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be thicker if you use a 9 by 13
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obviously it'll be a little thinner and
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if you use a 9 by 99 it's going to be a
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lot thicker so just keep that in mind
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make sure I got into the corners there
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we want to have this ready because once
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we get to the other step we don't want
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to stop it and have to spray our baking
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dish because then it'll start
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solidifying you don't want that to
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happen happen in the bowl all right
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let's set this aside you're going to
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want to have ready another large mixing
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bowl in that we're going to put in our
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Rice Krispies and have that ready to go
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it's always good to have everything
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ready from step to step so nothing gets
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solidified and hard to work with I am
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using a 7.5 o size box of Rice
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Krispies these are orange
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shockingly orange colored Rice
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Krispies it's probably for Halloween
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right let's open this
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up pour it into a large bowl now you can
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use the regular rice krispies they're
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the golden color ones they had this so
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we got this all right let's set this
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aside bring over the next
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Bowl we've got some marshmallows I'm
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using the minis cuz they just melt
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better we're going to pour these into a
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bowl you want to make sure it's
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microwave safe and it's a large
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bowl let me see how many I need of these
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eight cups this mixing bowl has a
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measurements on it and it's eight cups
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right here so I put the one bag in there
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which was 10 oz so I'm going to add
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another couple of ounces keep an eye on
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that that's what we need right there
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we're going to take half a stick of
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butter and then I'm just going to cut it
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we just need four tablespoons and what
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we're going to do is put it into our
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marshmallows and just dot it around and
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this is all we're going to need for
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this and that's it if you can see the
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four tablespoons of butter in there
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we're going to place this in the
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microwave between 2 to four minutes it
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all depends on when you get a nice ooey
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gooey mixture in there starts to get
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nice and puffy so I'm going to start
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with the 2 minutes Stir It Up put it
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back in for every 30 seconds until we
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get to that consistency while that's
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happening we're going to get the peanut
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butter ready because it's going to come
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quick now when I say quick I mean quick
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two to four minutes I'm going to take my
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measuring tool which is a third cup just
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going to spray it lightly with some
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cooking spray over the
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sink go into the peanut butter and
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measure it out just have that
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ready that smells
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good once we get our peanut butter ready
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we're ready to get the marshmallows wo
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look at
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that it's nice and fluffy in there it
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lost half its volume when it came out of
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the microwave the first time at the
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2minute mark it was way up here and when
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I started stiring around it started
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losing the volume I put it in for
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another 30 seconds and we got a nice
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good mix there we're going to take our
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peanut butter place it in we're having
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to work quick with this we want to blend
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that in and that heat from the
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marshmallows will melt that peanut
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butter now you want to be quick with
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this get it all mixed up really fast
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we're going to bring over our Rice
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Krispies yeah right there we're going to
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put the mixture in oh doesn't that look
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nice and
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fluffy I'm going to bring over another
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spatula that I'm going to spray let's
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mix This Together We want to make sure
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all those Rice Krispies are coated got
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to be fast and then we're going to bring
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over our baking dish that we've already
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prepared with some nonstick cooking
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spray working quickly get it into the
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baking dish
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I like that orange color it's nice for
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the
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fall for
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Halloween all right I'm going to get an
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offset spatula press it down press press
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press nice and
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even we want a solid
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form what do y'all
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think next step okay we're going to make
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the caramel topping for our
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Whatchamacallit candy bars now if you
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haven't seen our other candy bar re
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recipe I'm looking for my
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scissors Thomas and I my husband made
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payday candy bars oh my gosh they're
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really good you guys they're very
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good go check that one out okay these
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are caramel
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bits and they just look like this here
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little
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balls they're not even wrapped up so
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that's good these are 11 oz we're going
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to put that into a medium
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saucepan now if you can't find the
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caramel bits it's like a package like
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this you can do the carams that come in
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the little squares and they're
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individually wrapped just make sure you
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have 11 oz you can unwrap them and do
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the same process we're going to do right
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here I'm going to place this on a medium
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heat we're going to add 2 tablespoon of
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milk just drizzled all over
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them we're going to stir this
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continually until it's nice and melted
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and
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smooth y'all let me
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know if you've ever had one of these
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before I know they came out about the
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1980s and they're still out there I saw
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them and I'm like I got to make my own
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now make sure you stir continuously and
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just press down on the caramels almost
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there
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all right let's take a
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look oh yeah smooth that's what you want
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smooth the silk turn off your burner you
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don't want to overcook and let's pour it
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over our Rice Krispy Treats kind of get
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it nice and even you got to work fast
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with this step also smooth it out nice
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coating you got to work quick cuz it
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will solidify on you we still have
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another layer to put on all right we're
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going to let this set aside for just a
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few minutes while we make the final
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layer we're going to pour 1 and 1/2 cups
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of semi chocolate chips just into a
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microwave safe bowl or a large pourable
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measuring
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cup there we go we're going to place
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this in the microwave at 50% power for
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30 seconds give it a mix another 30
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seconds give it a mix and so on until
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you get a nice smooth consistency with
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your chocolate chips now if you don't
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like to do the microwave method for
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chocolate then you can certainly do the
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double boiler method if you want to do
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the double boiler method you can just
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use a regular saucepan fill it about 1
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qu the way up with water put it on a
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high heat bring it to a boil put a large
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bowl on top of the pot and put your
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chips in it using a towel push the chips
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around until it
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melts now I'm doing this method to show
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you but also I used the method for the
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microwave and I seized my chips again I
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do it a lot once it starts melting like
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this you can go ahead and turn your
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burner down to a medium medium low it's
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hot enough and the steam will help melt
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the chocolate chips here there we go
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nice and smooth what I'm going to do
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place it on top of the
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caramel now you got to be quick with
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this step also and then we're just going
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to spread it out now my caramel is
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already set and that's good that's what
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you want makes it easy to spread the
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chocolate on top we're going to allow
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this to cool for about 30 minutes before
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we dive in okay I put this in the
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refrigerator to really get it nice and
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solid and have that chocolate set up
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also I'm going to take a large long
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straight knife cut these into pieces
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there you go there's my Whatchamacallit
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a copycat candy bar treat recipe no
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don't you even he thinks that's his
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piece no way that I can just GW on it's
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not Christmas yet you know those big
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candy bars they have at Christmas time
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all right there we go we got some on the
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back side here that are
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small I like that one we're going to
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give it a try I got him in the kitchen
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he's feeling a lot better today as you
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can
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tell
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man that good
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that tastes just like a Whatchamacallit
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mm that's really
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good give us a thumbs up on this one
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make sure you like this video we'll see
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you on the next episode bye
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