Snickers pie

{{Short description|Chocolate dessert}}

Snickers pie is a chocolate dessert made with five Snickers bars, mascarpone and soft cheese. The recipe appeared on the BBC cookery show Saturday Kitchen, where it was made by Antony Worrall Thompson.{{Cite web| last = Thompson| first = Antony Worrall| title = Snickers pie| publisher = BBC| date =| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/snickerspie_80041| accessdate = 26 March 2011}}

The Food Commission called the Snickers pie "one of the most unhealthy recipes ever published".{{Cite web| last = Jones| first = Sam| title = Celebrity chef's pudding gets just desserts| work = The Guardian| publisher =| date = 6 February 2006| url = https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/feb/06/foodanddrink| accessdate = 26 March 2011}} Antony Worrall Thompson said the pie was intended as a treat for children and was not meant for regular consumption.{{Cite web| last = Akbar| first = Arifa| title = Worrall Thompson's Snickers pie condemned as a health hazard |work = The Independent| publisher =| date = 6 February 2006| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/worrall-thompsons-snickers-pie-condemned-as-a-health-hazard-465707.html| accessdate = 26 March 2011}} The recipe was removed from the BBC website.

According to the Food Commission's calculations, a single serving contains over 1,250 calories, the equivalent of 22 teaspoons of fat and 11 teaspoons of sugar. However, this assumes a portion size of 1/4 of the pie,{{cite journal| author =| title = Snickers Pie| url = http://www.foodcomm.org.uk/secure/Food_Magazine_72.pdf| journal = Food Magazine| volume = 72| pages = 17| publisher = The Food Commission| date = Jan 2006| access-date= 6 September 2015}} contrary to the recipe which indicates the dish serves 12 adults or 16 children.

The original recipe was invented in 2006, when in the UK a single Snickers bar had a weight of 62.5 g. This weight was subsequently reduced to 58g in 2009,{{Cite web| last = Wilkerson| first = Becky| title = Mars and Snickers reduce bar sizes but not prices| work = Marketing Magazine| publisher =| date = 3 June 2009| url = http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/910778/mars-snickers-reduce-bar-sizes-not-prices| accessdate = 31 March 2016}} and to 48 g in 2013.{{Cite web| last = Agencies| title = Mars and Snickers shrink but prices stay the same| work = The Daily Telegraph| publisher =| date = 16 Dec 2013| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/10518756/Mars-and-Snickers-shrink-but-prices-stay-the-same.html| accessdate = 31 March 2016}}