Personalised Lego Candies and Chocolates

Step 5 Make chocolate or toffee Lego pieces. Watch as kids go all smiley. Share with friends.

My family and I live in Afghanistan, so getting good cooking chocolate is not an option. I did find some stuff in the cupboard and we made chocolate pieces to begin with - I imagine if you had good chocolate, they would come out really well. I then googled toffee recipes and came up with some good ones - 1 cup sugar, a teaspoon of butter, teaspoon vinegar, vanilla flavour. Heat it all till the toffee reaches a nice brown golden honey colour.

If you want a more airy candy, remove from the heat and stir in a pinch of bicarbonate soda. It will bubble up, and as it is doing so, pour the toffee our into the moulds. It will spill over the edges, but you can break that off later. More airy means less perfectly formed toffees, but lighter. No bicarb and they are more solid.

Either way, It cools pretty quickly - bend out the pieces and break off the rough edges. All done. The better your mould the better the shape. As my moulds improved, the bricks became more perfect.

** do use the vinegar in making the toffee - it helps the sugar melt properly and you can't taste it in the end.
There are tons of good toffee recipes - I guess you could make soft caramel bricks too...
** do be careful of hot toffee. It sticks to fingers and lips and burns like this: OWWWWWWW!