Mr Beast’s Feastables chocolate bars have been extremely popular and I thought it would be fun to attempt to clone them, by making my own homemade chocolate from scratch. This video ended up being more of an adventure, learning as I went and ultimately slowly adding / changing elements with a core base recipe to get something pretty darn similar! Of course you can make chocolate from scratch with cocoa beans, but I wanted to try this alternative method, which saved a fair amount of time! Be sure to not use dark cocoa powder, as this will restrict your final colour to pretty dark shades, use full fat milk powder if you can too rather than skimmed.
Homemade Feastables Bars
First thing you need to do is melt the cocoa butter in a mixing bowl over a pan of simmering water, make sure the water is not touching the bowl, you can do this step in a microwave but I find this method with a pan over the hob gives you more control. Be careful this mixture is very, very hot!
Slowly add in the icing sugar, stirring to dissolve, do this in batches, add the milk powder if using, then add the cocoa powder in batches until you are happy with the shade, using the residual heat in the bowl to melt the cocoa mass if using, don’t add it all in, that way you can get the colour just right, the benefit of using icing sugar and powdered milk is it will dissolve in easily so you don’t need to pass it through a sieve.
Pour into your silicone chocolate moulds (or any moulds you fancy!) leaving room for fillings, such as rice krispies for the Feastables crispy bar clone. Place in the fridge to set for a good hour, longer if you can, then snap off and gobble up. If doing the Deez Nutz peanut butter bar, add a small bit of chocolate to your mould to cover the bottom fully, set it in the freezer until firmed, add a layer of peanut butter, then drizzle more chocolate on top (slightly warmed if needed to make it more manouverable), then set in the fridge.
This was a fun experiment and when you get the ratios right, it tasted pretty darn similar!