Step-by-step recipe for making dried apricots in chocolate glaze with hazelnuts. Healthy homemade sweets are quick and easy to make. Video recipe for chocolates with dried fruits.
While dealing with complex homemade cakes, cakes and pastries, many housewives do not know that it is very easy to make sweets at home. They are prepared from a variety of healthy foods. These are dried apricots, dates, banana, prunes, cranberries, cherries, raisins, figs, nuts … and not a gram of sugar! These homemade sweets are always healthier and tastier than store products. Today we will put hazelnuts in dried apricots and cover the dried fruit with chocolate icing. This is real exquisite and original magic! A culinary masterpiece is made very simply, from the minimum set of available products and in a short period of time.
Take dried apricots with a slight sourness, roasted hazelnuts, and bitter chocolate without additives with a cocoa content of at least 70%. You will get a wonderful tasty and healthy dessert. Since chocolates are homemade, you can experiment with them. For example, take any delicious nuts, replace dark chocolate with a bar of milk. Products can be chopped, twisted in a meat grinder and given a delicacy any shape: balls, cubes, cubes … Here you can show incredible imagination. It all depends on the taste and imagination of the cook.
See also how to cook dried apricots in chocolate.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 325 kcal.
- Servings - 10
- Cooking time - 15 minutes, plus the time for the candies to harden
Ingredients:
- Dried apricots - 10 pcs.
- Hazelnuts - 10 pcs.
- Dark chocolate 70% - 100 g
Step-by-step preparation of dried apricots in chocolate glaze with hazelnuts: homemade sweets, recipe with photo:
1. Pour dried apricots with hot water for 5 minutes to wash off the harmful coating. Then rinse under cold running water. Place on a paper towel and dry well.
2. Hazelnuts, if not fried, pre-dry in a clean and dry frying pan or on a baking sheet in the oven. Inside the dried apricots, through the hole from which the producers removed the seeds, insert the hazelnuts.
3. If the nuts are small and the dried fruits are large, you can put 2 nuts in each nut.
4. Break the chocolate into pieces, put in a bowl and melt in a water bath or microwave. Watch the firebox so that the chocolate does not boil, otherwise it will acquire a bitterness that cannot be eliminated.
5. Dip dried apricots into melted chocolate.
6. Swirl the dried apricots in the icing until they are completely covered with chocolate.
7. Place the chocolate-coated dried apricots with hazelnuts on baking parchment or cooking foil. Leave the homemade candy at room temperature for 15 minutes, then transfer to the refrigerator. After the chocolate glaze has completely solidified, hearty and healthy sweets can be served to the table. Such candies will energize, give vigor and strength.
See also a video recipe on how to make chocolates with dried fruits.
