A nutritious and easy-to-prepare dessert that is much healthier than purchased sweets, cookies or cakes - dried apricots in chocolate. Prepare this delicacy and delight your family with delicious homemade sweets.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
No event, celebration or friendly gatherings are complete without chocolate or sweets. In stores today, there is a huge variety of attractive boxes with a wide variety of sweets with all kinds of fillings. But sometimes you want to create something yourself with your own hands. At such moments, chocolate candies made with your own hands will be a wonderful occasion. For example, chocolate covered dried apricots will not be ashamed to present to any event. Such a culinary masterpiece on the festive table will be appreciated by any consumer.
In addition, such homemade sweets are always tastier, more sincere, and most importantly healthier than store sweets. After all, dried fruits contain a huge amount of vitamins, trace elements and nutritional properties. And dried apricots are especially valuable because of the content of minerals such as iron, magnesium, potassium and phosphorus.
In addition, according to the same recipe, you can make homemade sweets from other products, such as prunes, banana, cranberries, dates, cherries. This is a huge scope for experimentation. Still especially tasty are dried fruits stuffed with nuts or marzipan mass. Well, use any chocolate, although most often the darkest is used.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 357 kcal kcal.
- Servings - 100 g
- Cooking time - 10 minutes for cooking, plus 2 hours for the chocolate icing to harden
Ingredients:
- Dried apricots - 100 g
- Dark chocolate - 100 g
Step-by-step recipe for making dried apricots in chocolate:
1. Wash dried apricots and dry well with a paper towel. If the dried apricots are too hard, soak them in warm water for about 15 minutes. And if the dessert is intended for adults, then you can soak dried fruits in rum, skate or whiskey.
2. Break the chocolate into pieces and place in a deep bowl.
3. Place the chocolate in the microwave and melt until soft. Be careful that the chocolate does not overheat and does not boil in any way. It is enough to warm it up to 60 degrees for it to acquire a liquid consistency. Otherwise, it will acquire bitterness and spoil the taste of the finished dessert. After that, prick dried apricots on a toothpick and dip them into melted chocolate. Twist it several times so that the berry is completely covered with glaze. Spread the chocolate-covered dried apricots on baking parchment and refrigerate for 1-2 hours.
4. Serve the finished dessert with a glass of wine or a cup of coffee. Store the candies in the refrigerator or wrap them in cling foil, in the form of candy wrappers and give your child to school, or take them with you to work.
See also a video recipe on how to cook dried apricots in chocolate.
