Lateral Thinking Questions

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ANSWER: L.T.Q. #35

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 16:01:00

Do you remember the Cadbury Caramilk commercials from years ago? As it turns out, there are many answers to this question!

Here is this week's question:

How do they get the caramel centres into the Caramilk chocolate bar?

ANSWER:

First they pour a layer of chocolate into the chilled mold of the top portion of the bar. Then before all the chocolate hardens, they flip it over, causing the un-hardened chocolate to fall out, there-by creating a cavity for the caramel. They then flip it back over, and fill the cavity with caramel, followed by another layer of chocolate. Ta-dah! We have a caramel filled chocolate bar.

Sometimes the things that appear hard are really simple, you just have to stand back and look more closely.

The above "official" answer came from Bill, who had a friend who worked at the candy factory, and so supposedly had the inside poop on how they got the goodies on the inside.

And here are some of "life's many answers":

Margaret said: "I guess the answer is different from how I get the caramel into the centre of my cookies. Somehow I don't think it would be cost effective to melt a Rollo to get a Caramilk. Thankfully there are molds." She is one of the best treats-cooks I have met; her cookies are to maim for!
John C. said, "The caramel is put in as a near solid and the sugars break down into a liquid state while the product is on the shelf." He promised to provide documented scientific proof of this process.
John L. wanted to know if "once we figure this out will we have to figure out how they get the chocolate in the Caramilk bar??? (as if there would be a diff!!)" He also suggested "they inject it with a huge syringe."
Ross's answer was a little more leisurely: "First they pour chocolate into the mold. The under side of the mold is chilled so that the chocolate on the bottom will harder quickly while the rest stays liquid. The caramel is dropped into the liquid chocolate and being denser it sinks through until it is stopped at the chilled chocolate. The chocolate on top is allow to cool and voila a Caramilk bar. Now I'm hungry."

And now I think a Caramilk bar would be just the thing to take the sour edge off this "Week from Hell."

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