What is the advantage of homemade chocolates?
Perhaps someone will say the cost. But in fact, when comparing the price of ingredients and purchased delicacy, it is clear that the benefit is not always great.
But then you know exactly what is inside! And you can easily make healthy treats.
And here you can spy a selection of interesting recipes for sweets at home.
Homemade Candy - General Cooking Principles
In fact, make homemade candy is very simple. Ingredients are crushed, mixed and formed products of the desired size and shape. In some recipes it is required to boil the glaze, whip the cream, fry the nuts. Which is also easy.
What products are mainly used:
• chocolate, cocoa;
• dried fruits and nuts;
• honey, sugar;
• cookies, waffles;
• coconut chips;
• milk products;
• butter.
Dried fruit candies are the most useful and do not harm the figure. Well, of course, if used within reasonable limits. Chocolate candies with cookies, waffles and other sweets are very tasty. But, if compared with factory analogues, they can also be considered extremely useful.
Recipe for sweets at home from dried fruit
Variant of the most useful and simple recipe for sweets at home, with which you can quench your sweet passion. Dried apricots sour. If you want to get a sweeter taste, you can take more prunes or add some raisins.
Ingredients
• 2 cups dried apricots;
• 1 glass of prunes;
• 1 cup walnut nuts;
• 80 grams of chocolate;
• 30 grams of oil;
• 2-4 spoons of honey.
Cooking
1. All dried fruits should be well washed and dried. You can put on napkins and leave for a while.
2. Dry the nuts in a griddle, then crumble. The size of the pieces to your taste. You can grind into powder.
3. Pass the dried fruits through the meat grinder, add the nuts to them and adjust the consistency with honey. It should make a thick mass. 4. Sculpt balls, the size of a quail's egg.
5. Crumble chocolate, melt with the addition of butter.
6. And pour candy with icing on top. It can be covered completely, but in this case more chocolate is required.
7. Store a homemade delicacy in the fridge, they lie quietly for 3-4 days.
Recipe for sweets at home “Belochka”
Home analogue of popular sweets “Squirrel”. Delicacy is prepared with walnuts, but you can experiment and take any others. Deliciously obtained with the addition of a small amount of fried sesame. You will also need wafer hemispheres, which can be bought in the store of raw materials for confectioners. Although you can always make a lot thicker and just roll balls.
Ingredients
• 100 ml of cream;
• 1 glass of walnuts;
• 200 grams of oil;
• 100 grams of chocolate;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 40 grams of wafer hemispheres.
Cooking
1. Leave the oil warm for an hour, then beat until smooth with sugar. To speed up the process, you can use powder.
2. Add half the roasted and ground nut kernels.
3. Put the chocolate pieces in a bowl, add cream and drown in a water bath.
4. Mix chocolate with cream, put off a third. We fill the rest of the mass with hemispheres or simply roll balls. But in this case, part of the cream can not be postponed.
5. If hemispheres were used, then we smear them with cream residues.
6. Roll off candy in shelled nuts and remove to freeze in a cool place.
Recipe for homemade chocolates from cookies
The budget version of the recipe for sweets at home. Sweetness resembles the popular cake "Potato" and is prepared according to a similar principle. Cookies take any crumbly, not soft.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of cookies;
• 30 grams of coconut shavings;
• 0.2 kg of nuts;
• 20 dried apricots stuff;
• about cans of condensed milk.
Cooking
1. Grind cookies and nuts in any convenient way. It is possible in the combine or through the meat grinder.
2. Add condensed milk. At this stage, do not rush, pour in a little, mix thoroughly. The density of condensed milk and the humidity of the cookies is different for everyone, it is important not to pour in the excess. But if this happens, then add more nuts or cookies. 3. Dried apricots rinse, dry. Instead, you can use any other filler. For example, prunes, raisins, marmalade, marshmallow pieces.
4. Take a piece of the resulting mass, make a hole, put the stuffing (in our case, dried apricots) and close the ball.
5. Roll off the sweet ball in coconut chips and you can drink tea! But it is better to give sweets a little to lie in the fridge.
Recipe for sweets at home from the milk mixture “Shock-shock”
For this recipe of sweets at home, you will need a formula for baby food of the “Baby” type. A great way to use excess power.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of mix;
• 200 grams of powder;
• pack of oil;
• 100 grams of cocoa.
Cooking
1. Soft butter, beat with powder. The mass should turn out to be homogeneous, white, you can not beat it up until it is fluffy.
2. Put the milk mixture, which must be sieved.
3. Add also sifted cocoa, mix everything and make candies.
4. We make at its discretion. But since this is Shock Shock, you can roll in cocoa or grated chocolate.
Recipe for homemade chocolates “Truffeldino”
Recipe of very interesting truffle sweets at home. They will need milk powder. But you can also use infant formula, as in the previous recipe.
Ingredients
• 4.5 cups dry milk (or mixture);
• 2 glasses of sugar;
• 4 spoons of cocoa;
• 3/4 cup liquid milk;
• 60 grams of oil;
• coconut chips.
Cooking
1. Combine cocoa with sugar and liquid milk, put the butter and put it on the stove.
2. Cook the mass until all the grains are dissolved.
3. Enter the milk powder or infant formula. But not all. Half a glass will stay exactly. Adjust the density, the mass should be obtained under the molding. As soon as it will be difficult to stir with a spoon, stop adding milk.
4. Cool for about 15 minutes in the refrigerator.
5. We make candies in the form of truffles. To make the process easier, hands moistened with cold water.
6. Roll the items in the remaining mixture and put them in the fridge so that they “grab”.
Recipe for sweets at home “Raffaello”
But this recipe certainly will help save, as the real sweets of Raffaello are expensive. From this amount of products about 16 pieces will turn out. Simplified recipe. If you want to prepare a delicacy that is as close as possible to the original, then see below.
Ingredients
• 16 almond stuff;
• 200 grams of condensed milk;
• 25 grams of oil;
• 150 grams of chips;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. A third of the chips immediately set aside for deboning ready-made sweets, and everything else is sent to the bowl.
2. Add melted butter, then condensed milk. Intensive mix. At first the mass will be slightly fluid, but then the chips will swell.
3. Almonds need to pour boiling water, and after five minutes, remove the skin. Dry nuts in a skillet.
4. Leaf Raffaello with a nut inside, rolls in deferred chips.
Recipe for sweets at home “Raffaello” No. 2 (similar to real ones)
To make almost real sweets “Raffaello”, you need mascarpone cheese and wafer hemispheres.
Ingredients
• 150 grams of mascarpone;
• 100 grams of chips;
• 150 grams of chocolate (white);
• 50 ml of cream (at least 20% fat);
• 50 grams of almond;
• 100 grams of condensed milk;
• 40-50 wafer spheres.
Cooking
1. Combine the mascarpone with condensed milk, beat with a mixer for five minutes. Mass should be air.
2. One third of chocolate is melted in a water bath with 1 spoon of cream. Pour into the cream, stir. We clean in the refrigerator for half an hour.
3. Fill the hemispheres for candies with chilled cream, stick in almonds and put them together.
4. Now you need to melt the remaining chocolate and cream.
5. Carefully dip the balls into chocolate, roll in coconut chips and immediately wrap in foil.
6. Immediately send in the freezer so that the wafer sphere does not have time to limp. An hour later Rafaelka will be ready.
Recipe for sweets at home from muesli
Another option useful sweets that are easily and quickly made at home. Cinnamon is added to the flavor, but it can always be excluded. These sweets are not stored for a long time, as they contain fresh carrots. Ingredients
• 20 grams of sunflower seeds;
• 1 spoon of honey;
• 1/4 tsp. cinnamon;
• 50 grams of carrots;
• 40 grams of prunes;
• 40 grams of oil;
• 40 grams of raisins;
• 100 grams of oatmeal for cooking without cooking.
Cooking
1. Rub finely carrot.
2. Add the chopped prunes and half the raisins.
3. Add oil. In this recipe, you can melt the butter or add vegetable oil.
4. Put the seeds, flakes, honey and mix.
5. Leave the mass to swell the flakes, then form the balls and ready! They can be rolled in sesame seeds, poppy seeds or coconut shavings.
Homemade Candy - Tips and Tricks
• In any recipe for homemade chocolates, dry milk can be replaced with infant formula and vice versa. By moisture, these ingredients are almost identical, do not require any changes in the recipe.
• How many sweets do you get? Just add up the amount of ingredients. If it comes out too much, you can always cook half or a small portion, dividing the food proportionally.
• There are many recipes for sweets. And most of them consist of the same ingredients with minor modifications. And if you have already decided to soil the meat grinder with nuts, an oil mixer, and a bowl of chocolate, then cook several types of sweets at once, you can by a little bit. And then the sweet table will be rich and diverse.
