It was taken off the web today - Anthony Worrall Thompson once upon a time, a long long time ago wrote a recipe that could occasionally be made for a children's party. He never said feed the entire Snickers Pie to your 2yr old, but it has now been taken off the BBC recipe website for being 1250 calories a slice - thats the equivalent of 22 teaspoons of fat and 11 teaspoons of sugar. it only took them more than two years to work this one out - maybe if they had a slice, it would help the hamster turn the wheel a little more quickly...

If this was a pie made with double sided razer blades that was advised to be partaken in once every fortnight, I wouldn't have a problem. But it's a pie. For special occasions. Eaten once every two years, it surely can not do much harm to you unless you were diabetic. Or on a strict macrobiotic diet. Personally, if I was on Atkins eat all you can eat, then I would eat this pie once every three days. But in the wish to retain my svelte figure, I shall eat a piece in my mind.

But in the interest of choice, the recipe in it's entirety is here.

Ingredients
1 packet puff pastry
140g/5oz mascarpone
110g/4oz soft cheese
50g/2oz caster sugar
3 eggs
5 Snickers bars, chopped roughly

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400/Gas 6.
2. Roll pastry to 3-4mm thick and use to line a 20cm/8in fluted tart tin.
3. Beat the mascarpone, soft cheese and sugar together in a large bowl, until smooth.
4. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
5. Add the Snickers bars and fold in.
6. Pour into a lined tart tin, and spread to the edges.
7. Place in the oven for 10 minutes, then lower to 180C/350/Gas 4 for a further 25 minutes until golden and set.

Allow to cool before serving

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Meanwhile, for the most part, I shall spend most of this afternoon trying to irrigate the fat clogging up my arteries.

Maybe Mister Muscle can help...