{"id":8974,"date":"2015-10-30T18:26:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T08:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=8974"},"modified":"2016-03-17T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T03:39:50","slug":"tim-tam-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/tim-tam-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Biggest Tim Tam recipe video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hrecipe\" align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tim-tam-giant-2-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"homemade tim tam recipe\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"photo\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the world&#8217;s biggest Tim Tam.  You can of course scale the Tim Tam recipe down and make normal sized Tim Tams.  Or surprise someone who is doing giant things with one like this.<\/p>\n<p>We gave this huge Tim Tam to Jessica Watson, the youngest person to sail solo around the world.  She is a delightful young lady and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll enjoy meeting her in this video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/66T2oSB4bks?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis Tim Tam recipe makes one Tim Tam that is 50cm (19.69 inches) long by 25cm (9.84 inches) wide.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<strong>It weighs a massive 15.3kg (33.73 pounds)!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"fn\">To make this giant Tim Tam you will need:<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Biscuit \/ cookie part<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"ingredient\"><span class=\"amount\">1150g (40.57 ounces) or 5 \u00bc cups <\/span> <span class=\"name\">sugar<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n668g (23.56 ounces) or 2 \u00be cups plus 2 Tbsp of brown sugar<br \/>\n433g (15.27 ounces) or 2 cups margarine<br \/>\n320millilitres (10.82 fluid ounces) or 235g (8.29 ounces) vegetable oil<br \/>\n8 eggs<br \/>\n58g (2.05 ounces) or 3 Tbsp golden syrup<br \/>\n2 \u00bc tsp baking powder<br \/>\n4 \u00bd tsp salt<br \/>\n2 Tbsp cocoa powder<br \/>\n1890g (66.67 ounces) or 11 \u00be cups plain or all purpose flour<br \/>\n360g (12.7 ounces) or 3 cups cornflour (cornstarch)<\/p>\n<p>Place the white sugar, the brown sugar, margarine, oil and golden syrup into a large bowl.<br \/>\nMix it together until it is well combined.  <\/p>\n<p>Add in the salt and the eggs and mix it through.<\/p>\n<p>Sift the corn flour, plain flour, baking powder and cocoa powder and mix into the dough. <\/p>\n<p>Divide into four quarters and roll each quarter out between two sheets of baking paper to make a 25 x 25cm (9.84 inches) square, 1cm (0.39 inches) thick. <\/p>\n<p>Slide it onto a baking tray and bake at 150C (302 degrees Fahrenheit) until it is golden and firm to the touch (It took 45 minutes in my oven).<\/p>\n<p>While it is still hot trim it along the edges to make them straight and even.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Tam Filling Recipe<\/strong><br \/>\n5550g (195.77 ounces) or 44 cups icing (powdered) sugar<br \/>\n3\/4 cup or 90g (3.17 ounces) cocoa powder<br \/>\n1 Tbsp salt<br \/>\n2400g (84.66 ounces) or 10\u00be cups plus 3 Tbsp of margarine.<\/p>\n<p>Whip it all together until it is smooth and thick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chocolate<\/strong><br \/>\n3500g (123.46 ounces) of chocolate for covering (watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/temper-chocolate\/\" title=\"Chocolate Secrets Revealed\">chocolate secrets<\/a> video for how to temper chocolate)<\/p>\n<p>Follow the video for assembly instructions and to meet Jessica Watson.<\/p>\n<p>Be inspired to do giant things<br \/>\n<h7 class=\"updated\">2015<\/h7><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\">copyright howtocookthat<\/a>\n<\/div>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/tim-tam-recipe\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tim-tam-giant-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"homemade tim tam recipe\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tim-tam-giant-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tim-tam-giant-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tim-tam-giant-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tim-tam-giant-2-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"8975\" \/><\/a><p>&nbsp; This is the world&#8217;s biggest Tim Tam. You can of course scale the Tim Tam recipe down and make normal sized Tim Tams. Or surprise someone who is doing giant things with one like this. We gave this huge Tim Tam to Jessica Watson, the youngest person to sail solo around the world. She is a delightful young lady and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll enjoy meeting her in this video. &nbsp; This Tim Tam recipe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,912],"tags":[31,2305,1306,1006,2603,26,2304,2301,995,952,2303,1005,15,2300,2307,2302,2306,2308,1773,1468],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8974"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104127,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions\/104127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}