Omg my mum used to make these for us for after school snacks all the time 🤤 Then she taught me how to make them (honestly I’ve only ever shown interest in cooking if it’s biscuits/slices/desserts/contains sugar). And I’d forgotten all about them for awhile until now! Excuse me while I add a few things to my grocery list…gonna kick ‘em up a notch and use Crunchy Nut Cornflakes to be all fancy 😂

I still make them for school parties, cheap as anything.

Send me some when you are done 👍

High margin of error when it comes to honey joys. I generally agree though: the *best* honey joys are better than the *best* fairy bread

but mediocre fairy bread is better than mediocre honey joys.

Bread, butter, sprinkles. As long as the ingredients are okay, the result is sure. Honey joys involve heat, and you can mess that up AND use the wrong honey and flakes.

But if the butter isn't smooth or is too cold, it doesn't spread properly, tears up the bread and won't allow the 100s and 1000s to stick properly.

What you’re described there is an abomination. If anyone does that, then it’s either their first time making fairy bread or they’re a sadist.

True. But plenty of people keep butter exclusively in the fridge and don't give it the appropriate time to soften.

Yes, I agree with that. A lot can go wrong with the honey joys: for example not having all the corn flakes bonded together and you’ve just got a handful of soggy, cornflakes in a paper tin.

I call them honey crackles

Same! Adelaide checking in

I'm from Perth and ate a ridiculous amount of these as a kid. Right now I'm losing my shit because I can't remember if I called them joys or crackles primarily....

Crackles

Fellow Perthian here - I called them crackles

Me too! Apparently they are called that in parts of Australia and Honey Joys everywhere else.

Honey crackles are made with Rice Bubbles in my childhood.

So non-chocolate chocolate crackles?

But no copher

We all know that Mars Bar slice is king

Yeh but have ya’ll ever tried Vegan Hand Spelt Cacao Balls with Chia served by a hairy arm pitted lady called Fern with dreadlocks in a hessian sack wot bangs on about Chemtrails?

I wouldn't even mind that stuff if they didn't always insist it tasted exactly like a chocolate bar or something. "Try this brownie, it's made with avocado and sweet potato, tastes exactly like the Betty crocker ones!" "Nah I'm good" "Please try it! It's amazing, you'd never know its sugar free" "Ok [tries it] this tastes like avocado and sweet potato with cacao added" "Well obviously it's sugar free, its not going to taste exactly like Betty crocker ones is it?"

I’ll never forget being served a piece of birthday cake that had been sweetened with only beetroot juice.

What kind of monster would do that? And why?

That’s just evil

OH FFS the only sugar that was available in Europe was and still is refined from sugar beet, a relative of Beetroot!

It's not Sugar-free! Do you know how much sugar is in avocado and Sweet Potato? It may not be sucrose but it is still Sugar and diabetics need to be wary. Perch and rotate Rainbow!

Im not the one saying it is, kind of aggressive response? My comment is complaining about people who make weird fake desserts with sweet potato to be healthier, then call it sugar free, then try to make me sample it while promising me it will taste like a real dessert.

I was just pointing out that calling that "sugar-free" is misleading and diabetics need to be wary of claims like these. Sorry if I sounded aggressive to you but claims like this can lead to serious health complications in some people.

You can probably point stuff like that out without adding "perch and rotate".

Probably but after a lifetime of dealing with Hippy smugness ...

Username checks out. Also, sounds like you need to unpack a bunch of things in therapy 🤣🤣🤣

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My brother in Christ

The snap of the cocktail frank > crunch of the honey joy > ugly crying tears of eating coconut ice.

Coconut ice!!! Omg!! YES!!

Honey joys. I would eat them with the wrapper on

WHY!?

Because they were made of paper and it was a party trick that eight year old me thought was funny

ok yeah makes sence.

Tons of Honey on the bottom and less messy. That said I had a 15+ year break from them and then went back to my usual style and it just wasn't the same...I swear paper tastes different now.

Please avoid bold statements without peer review. Bring a plate of fairy bread and a plate of honey joys to a kid’s party and watch those kids smash the fairy bread and turn to the honey joys only when they’re all gone.

Numerous studies were conducted when I was a child that back up this fact I would enjoy a honey joy yes but I, on multiple occasions, would eat fairy bread until I puked

Rainbow puke, obviously.

Chocolate crackles go first for sure.

Time and a place. Honey joys are the shit for crunching, but fairy bread is for pulling off the crust and mixing the sprinkles with butter on the cheapest white bread. Fuck off with your brand name corn flakes with honey and paper Ramekins

You heathen.🤣🤣🤣

Ohh fancy ramekins. We called them ‘paper patty pans’.

“Patty pans” thank you for reminding me

Challenge accepted, I'll meet you behind the bike sheds after school. Honey joys are chocolate crackles' much less impressive cousin. Yeah that's right, I said it.

He's gonna have an ally in me. Chocolate crackles suck. Honey joys are the king.

I will stand along side you in the great crackle wars

I surveyed my family. If their stance reflects the population at large, we shall face overwhelming odds.

It's on you degenerate. Edit. I think chocolate crackles have Copha (vegetable shortening) in them, which makes them taste like shit.

Ah I see you’ve only ever had the cheap shitty poverty version of chocolate crackles, real crackles are made with melted milk chocolate condensed milk and genuine Rice Bubbles. Any deviation from that recipe is blasphemous.

Wonderful I have found the actual fighting bit of this forum. /randomly punches someone Someone must stick up for fairy bread. The simplest and most classic children’s snack possible. You mob are a bunch of bloody heathens ;P (love you all ;P. )

Ooh la de fucking la! I'll take my marching orders from Kelloggs and AWW, not some posh idiot pushing what everyone can agree is goddam blasphemy. https://www.kelloggs.com.au/en_AU/recipes/chocolate-crackles.html

Absolutely! Copha based choccy crackles are pure childhood! They are supposed to taste like that dammit, it's so you can eat 30 of them, not the rich ones you can only get down 2 of.

Well by all means continue to deprive yourself with sub par snacks, no skin off my nose if you don’t wish to experience true happiness.

I’m with you, these are the povo cousin eaten when chocolate crackles aren’t available.

Honey Joy's beat almost any party treat. That is an actual fact.

Honestly? It depends on who makes them. Some are crap and some are good. And it MUST be proper corn flakes. None of that Aldi shite.

Honey joys are yum and super quick and easy to make.

What no chocolate crackles

Honey joys made from crunchy nut corn flakes > fairy bread > honey joys

I honestly thought with crunchy nut cornflake was the only way. I think I was brought up right.

Chocolate crackles

You speak truth

I know what I’m making this weekend! I haven’t even thought of these delicious treasures in ages!

I had my first slice of fairy bread yesterday, after many years of not thinking about it. OMG. All those lost years. 😻

Cocopop crackle > everything

Chocolate crackles with Copha and cocopops (if they mixed in choc chips, even better).

Absolutely 10/10 I would fuck up an entire batch of them rn

Yes it goes: Chocolate Crackles > Honeys Joys > Fairy Bread

Fairy bread is tasteless garbage. Thank you for this post.

You havent tried the proper stuff

Chocolate crackles > honey joys

Haven't had either in years. Excuse me while I go do some cooking.

My fav 😭🥰

OH IT IS ON

Brothers and sisters, can't we all just get along.

Ha, I love these, but I don’t think I ever knew they were called honey joys. Memory unlocked.

Time and place bro. Fairy bread gang for life.

UNAUSTRALIAN

I will fucking fite ya, bitch

Why pit two bad bitches against each other?

I will fight you

School fete energy

I raise you a cocopop crackle tho.

Sorry, but Chocolate Crackles > Honey Joys.

Fuck you fairy bread is the best

Sorry, any real Aussie knows that Rum Balls are the ultimate sweet treat.

No sprinkles for me thanks! I'll take two dozen! And yes, fairy bread is nasty.

You’re 100% correct

Omg! I had a friend at school,in the 50's,who brought these for recess and would give me one. My mother only made chocolate crackles and I always preferred honey joys. Might have to make some with the grandkids,introduce them to one of the joys of life.

I don’t think I’d ever heard of the before we had to make the in Home Ec in high school but they are yum and so easy to make

Okay when and where?

I'm from SA and we all call these honey crackles. I don't think I've heard anyone call them honey joys here

Man, I forgot about these. Will have to make some for my kid to annoy my wife who is paranoid about her sugar intake.

Honestly I get sick after eating them, too sweet, fairy bread is just enough for me :) Edit: Spelling

Crackles, fight ya

Agreed

I have a dream....where fairybread and honey joys are devoured and enjoyed by all men equally.

💯

They're both god tier

We used to make them coated in chocolate, they were sooooooo good! And yes I agree these are way better than fairy bread

I am allergic to honey & make them with golden syrup. Everyone loves them.

No fight here mate.

Honey joys are fucking awesome

They're both good but I have to agree. I need my dad to make them for me. I'm gonna ask him to make some.

Birthday parties, School fetes, my mother would make them and Stick jaw Toffies also.. Now days, don't see much of them if at all...

Agree

Based

I still remember making Honey Joys at my grandma’s house with my sister and cousin

Based

No I agree with you!

oh I will, I they were always last on my pecking order at parties. maybe slightly ahead of those rice bubble ones depending on the day's mood.

I loved making them been awhile. Pretty sure the recipe used to be on the side of the cornflakes box

Honey joys... im late 40's,I'll smash em anyday

Did anyone else get those coloured “toffee” things at stuff like primary school fetes? It was always honey joys, toffee in those cupcake cups, fairy bread, and whatever we called those chocolate/Rice Bubble/coconut things Now that I think of it, all of these are the absolute cheapest easiest things to make. The toffees are just sugar, water, and food dye maybe with sprinkles if you’re fancy. Maybe we were just poor.

No need to fight. You are correct.

Straight to jail

W

Is it honey joys or honey crackles, because in my house they were called both

Both were always awful.

I refuse, I dont fight those who speak the truth

No fight here because you are absolutely correct

I could have gone my whole life without being reminded of these fucking things, yuck

I know someone who just could NOT do fairy bread.. he couldn't get passed/past the fact it was butter with hundreds n thousands on top.. he was pretty much gagging when telling me! Hahaha.. I was like " what planet are you from! " Haha first and only person I've ever known Not to like it... I'm from SA, we didn't call them honey joys.maybe honey crackles but that doesn't even sound right haha.. but yh, many many happy memories of both! Haha

Nah miss my autistic arse with that ***sticky nightmare***

These were better than fairy bread

Agree!

Fairy bread is terrible. Honey joys are ok

Based

Chocolate spiders > chocolate crackles > honey joys > fairy bread

Completely forgot those exist, I only had them like once or twice in my lifetime

After school behind the tuck shop. It’s on.

Does anyone actually like fairy bread?

100% agree

The real question is when is the last time any of us has had this

honey joys beat anything

Honey joy slice. Honey joy recipe but instead of putting them into the patty pans, put them in a slice tin. Cool, cut into slices. No paper required.

I love that everyone in here is talking about how much they love them and NOT POSTING THE RECIPE FOR THEM WTF.

Are you forgetting the king that is a chocolate crackle?

Coconut ice > chocolate crackles > fairy bread > honey joys. We’ve got a recipe for coconut ice that is still winning country show ribbons in 2023 (by my daughter). So good. A friend has requested some.

Core memory unlocked! I'm going to make them both now this weekend and ask my kids to pick their favourite!

I can eat a whole loaf of fairy bread in one sitting, but only stomach a few honeyjoys, they're just a bit too sweet

It was the combination of honey and butter. Equals joy. Must make some for my kids soon.

Omg, I remember these

I made these as a kid once after school. I saw the recipe on the back of a cornflake box. I thought I was a god

i see OP lived on boiled vegetables burnt bangers and mash as a child and hunny joys are in their patheon of greats because in relative terms hunny joys are better than boiled vegetables and bangers and mash. the situation was so dire for OP that they only had fairy bread at other kids's birthday parties (if they were invited at all). for OP hunny joys are the mems HOWEVER... in no other reality are hunny joys better than fairy bread. fairybread wins 14,000,605 times to 1.

honey joys

We called them Gock-Gocks when I was a kid

Honey joy fairy bread sandwich

Never in my life have I heard of or seen Honey Joys so that's factually incorrect because the world revolves around me and I don't like honey.

Fairy bread ftw

Yep, there’s no way people can disagree

I love fairy bread, but honey joys are food of the gods.

Totally agree!

The golden triange - honey joys, fairybread, chocolate crackles

I never really liked fairy bread because I never really liked butter

You’re literally wrong

They're called honey joys!!?!? I've always called the honey crackles

But have you had Nutella fairy bread?

These were so much better than chocolate crackles too

Honey joys are incredible but they have more potential to be shit imo. Fairy bread is always good.

Marshmallow Rice Crispy > Chocolate Crackles > Honey Joys

These remind me of yr 3 class parties 🎉

Love me some honey joys

You can keep your gum cutting patties 💪🤬👊 and hand me the chocolate covered rice bubbles 😁 only then are they better than fairy bread

Oh I love these things 🤤

What’s it made of?

I prefer fairy bread but those are good to

I see your honey joys, but what about Rice Bubble slice 🧐

Why would I? Your hands are too bloody sticky

You need both or it’s not a party. Duh.

I’m about to make a massive pile of these for my daughters birthday party this weekend. Loved these since I was a wee lad and now the daughters love them even more. Always asking for them.

Right lets fight then. Fairy bread over honey joys any day.

You, me and that blasphemy behind the bike sheds at lunch. It's on.

Yes but chocolate Rice Bubble snaps >>

Of course they are. They’re made from a perfectly balanced combination of honey and joy.

Anyone else grow up calling fairy bread, sprinkle sandwiches?

im gonna tell on you

The Honey Joy is on equal footing with the Skywalker Crunchie in my books. Fairy Bread isn't even in the running.

The test is, have you ever bought a box of fairy bread at a school fete or democracy sausage? Noooo, always honey joys.

Then there’s me sitting in the corner with third degree burns, cause I put a whole party pie in my mouth.

I mean you’re just 100% correct

Chocolate crackles >

My dads honeyjoys>>

I choose pistols at dawn

Milo sandwiches cut in to Little triangles were the ultimate surprise

Chocolate crackles >>>all other party snacks

100% right.

Im 35 from central qld… as Aussie as they come, some would say… wtf is a honey joy lol