What kid doesn't like sweets? And adults will also not refuse sweets. Spoil the family with delicious homemade chocolates and make chocolate-covered prunes.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Not a single holiday, celebration, family or friendly gatherings are complete without sweets: sweets, chocolate, cookies, pastries, cakes. Today, the stores provide an incredibly large selection of colorful and attractive boxes with a variety of sweets and all kinds of fillings. Many of us prefer to give preference to natural products like dark chocolate, nuts in chocolate, raisins in chocolate, as well as prunes in chocolate.
However, even such the most useful delicacy does not come out cheap at all if you buy it in the store. But prunes contain a whole storehouse of essential nutrients. So, prunes restore the digestive tract and normalize metabolism. It is useful for anemia because contains a lot of iron. Favorite chocolate with its useful properties is also not inferior to prunes. It cheers up, energizes the whole day, strengthens the heart and brain.
As you can see, prunes in chocolate have tremendous benefits, while home-made prunes are much cheaper than purchased in a store. I note that having mastered this technology, you can cook other dried fruits according to this recipe: dried apricots, raisins, dates, etc.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 392 kcal.
- Servings - 300 g
- Cooking time - 40 minutes (of which half an hour the sweets are cooled in the refrigerator)
Ingredients:
- Prunes - 200 g
- Dark chocolate - 100 g
Cooking prunes in chocolate
1. Soak prunes in drinking water at room temperature and leave for 2-3 minutes, or simply rinse them under running water. If there are seeds in the berries, then remove them first.
2. Place the washed dried fruit on a paper towel and blot well to remove all moisture.
3. Break the chocolate into slices and place in a bowl.
4. In the microwave or steam bath, melt the chocolate until it melts and softens. Never bring it to a boil, otherwise it will turn bitter.
5. Dip several prunes into the melted chocolate.
6. Swirl the chocolate-covered berries several times until they are completely covered with chocolate. It is most convenient to do this with a wooden skewer or a toothpick.
7. Spread out parchment paper and place the chocolate-coated berries on top of it. Send them to cool in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes, and if you need them to cook faster, then soak them in the freezer for 10 minutes.
8. When the chocolate has set, put the candies in a bowl and serve them to the table. By the way, you can wrap each candy in a beautiful wrapper or a piece of food foil, then they will really look festive.
See also a video recipe on how to make chocolate-covered prunes.
