Make your own chocolates. Features of making chocolate

1. Balls "Dream" - a fantastic dessert without baking

It turns out much tastier than store-bought sweets!

Products:

1. Vanilla crackers - 150 gr
2. Milk - 100 ml
3. Condensed milk - 3 tablespoons
4. Cocoa - 2 tablespoons
5. vanilla pinch
6. Butter - 50 gr
7. Crushed nuts - optional
8. Sugar - 2 tablespoons
9. Liquor - 1 tbsp (optional)

For glaze:

1. Chocolate - 100 gr
2. Oil - 1 tablespoon
3. Sour cream - 1 tablespoon

How to make a no-bake dessert:

1. Grind crackers with a blender and add cocoa, mix.
2. Bring the milk to a boil and cool slightly, then add butter, sugar and vanilla to it.
3. Stir the mixture until the sugar dissolves.
4. We combine the milk mixture with the dry one, add condensed milk, liquor and pour nuts, mix well.
5. We remove the mass for 1 hour in the refrigerator.
6. After the allotted time, we take it out of the refrigerator and form small balls with a teaspoon.
7. For glaze, melt all the ingredients in a water bath.
8. We dip the balls into the icing one at a time and carefully remove them with a fork, put them on tracing paper.
9. Put the balls in the freezer for 20 minutes.

Happy tea!

2. Butterscotch "Tyanuchki" on baked milk

The favorite dessert of the Soviet era - toffee candies - have acquired a different taste, and sometimes you really want to treat children with real toffee according to the classic recipe.

Products:

1. Milk (baked) - 200 ml.
2. Sugar - 150-200 gr.
3. Honey - 2 tbsp. spoons
4. Butter - 30 gr.
5. Vanillin - 1 pack

How to cook toffees "Tyanuchki" on baked milk:

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and pour over the boiled milk.

Cook over medium heat for about 30 minutes, stirring constantly. The finished mass should be thick, with a bright caramel color.

To make the toffees beautiful, I take ice molds. They need to be slightly lubricated with vegetable oil.

Then pour the mass and put it in the freezer for 30 minutes. Happy tea!

3. Powdered milk candies

The recipe for making sweets from powdered milk is good because the main ingredients can be at hand at any time, so that a delicacy can be made for suddenly arriving guests. Spices are additional ingredients that can be added to taste (vanillin, cinnamon, cardamom).

Products:

1. Powdered milk - 250 gr
2. Sugar - 300-350 gr
3. Butter - 100 gr
4. Water - 100 ml
5. Cocoa - 2-3 tbsp. spoons
6. Spices to taste - 1 pinch

How to make candy from powdered milk:

1. The first step is to boil the sugar syrup. To do this, in a small saucepan you need to combine water and sugar and send to the fire. After boiling over low heat, boil the syrup for about 7-10 minutes until it begins to thicken a little.

2. Put butter in hot syrup and leave for a couple of minutes. Then mix everything thoroughly until smooth.

3. Gradually, in several stages, add milk powder, stirring constantly. The mass should be soft, elastic and without lumps.

4. It's time to add a pinch of your favorite spices. Powdered milk sweets at home can be made with cocoa (if desired, you can not add it, replacing it with coconut, for example). Mix everything thoroughly and send the mass to the refrigerator to solidify.

5. After 35-45 minutes, you can take out the blank and sculpt sweets. They can be given absolutely any shape and rolled in cocoa before serving.

Happy tea!

4. Homemade sweets “Raffaello”

The easiest recipe for making homemade Raffaello sweets

Products:

• Coconut flakes - 150 gr
• Almonds - 15-16 pcs.
• Condensed milk - 200 gr
• Butter - 25 gr

How to make homemade Raffaello sweets:

A small portion of coconut flakes (about 50 g) is set aside for sprinkling finished sweets. Next, mix the condensed milk with chips, add melted butter, mix until a homogeneous mass is formed and put in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.

You can pour boiling water over the almonds and leave for 5 minutes. Then peel and dry in a dry hot frying pan. Or you can use almonds along with the skins. Without the peel, the sweets are very tender. But with a peel - more useful.

We pinch off small pieces from the chilled coconut mass, crush them with our hands and place almonds in the middle of the cake. We roll into balls about the size of a walnut, lightly moisten them with water (not necessary) so that the chips stick better and roll in coconut flakes.

We send the finished balls to the refrigerator, and after a couple of hours we discover a little heavenly delight ...

These are the Raffaello "in haste" we got. Yes, by the way, sweets from this amount of products, it turns out 15-16 pcs. Happy tea!

5. Healthy homemade sweets

Dedicated to sweet lovers.

Products:

• Dried apricots - 5 pcs.
• Walnut - 5 pcs.
• Honey - 1/2 tbsp. spoons
• Milk - 1 tbsp. spoon
• Bitter chocolate - 70-90 gr.
• Cocoa, sesame - for decoration

How to make healthy homemade sweets:

1. Bitter chocolate finely break and melt with milk in the microwave or in a water bath.
2. Finely chop the dried apricots and nuts.
3. Mix melted chocolate, nuts, dried apricots and honey. Refrigerate the entire mixture.
4. Roll up small balls from the resulting mass, cool again, roll in cocoa and sesame seeds.

Bon appetit!

6. Homemade toffee on sour cream

Butterscotch on sour cream is an amazing delicacy for you and your children. No dyes and flavors, only natural products!

I saw this simple homemade toffee recipe and I really wanted to cook it.

We just combine sour cream with sugar, what could be easier? And the taste is not rich sweet, but so unobtrusive, with a sour cream flavor. You can eat as much as you like, they are not boring at all. Well, shall we start?

Products:

• Butter - 30 g
• Sugar - 220 gr
• Sour cream - 220 gr

How to cook toffee on sour cream:

To start cooking toffees, we need to take sour cream and sugar in equal proportions and add a little butter to them. If you want to make more toffee, then increase the amount of products.

2. We take a ladle, it is better if it is made of stainless steel than enameled. In a ladle, combine sour cream and sugar and a small piece of cooked butter. Place over medium heat, bring to a boil, stirring constantly. First, small bubbles will come to the surface. You need to stir constantly and do not move away from the stove.

3. After a while, the mixture will become like condensed milk. Keep stirring so the mixture doesn't burn to the bottom. Very soon, our future toffees will change color and become thick. If you want a darker color, cook longer. Stirring will become more difficult, but you need to increase the intensity.

When you are satisfied with the color of the toffees, remove them from the heat and add the butter. Oil must be intensively mixed with the composition.

It should be this thick. dark mixture. It must be quickly poured into molds or poured onto a flat surface. It is necessary to pre-lubricate the molds and the surface for solidification with butter.

You can take a silicone mold for sweets or a glass baking dish. You can use whatever utensils you have. If you pour the toffee not in molds, but on a flat surface, then while the toffee mixture is still warm, make cuts with a wet knife so that it will be easier to cut into pieces later.

Now we need to leave the toffees for a while so that they freeze. A little later, we will free them from the forms and divide them into portions. From this amount of products, 260 grams of ready-made toffees are obtained.

We wish you a pleasant tea party!

I found this sweet recipe in my mom's notebook and immediately decided to cook it. Now I often make homemade chocolates. The result is an incredible amount of sweetness! And most importantly, simple chocolates are prepared from all available ingredients. It's great when you can create amazing sweetness at home with your hands and you don't need to go to the store. Chocolate, as you know, is a sweet weakness, and not only women and children, but men also fall into this category! Chocolate can work "miracles": improves memory, improves mood and improves performance. This recipe is very easy and simple, but for me it is also a fun activity to make sweets at home. Children especially like to cook sweets - this is a great activity and a reason to keep children busy and introduce them to cooking. Homemade filled chocolates have great coffee taste and are prepared very quickly. I recommend trying this homemade candy recipe, and I assure you, you will be very satisfied. Pamper and surprise your loved ones, relatives and friends with such homemade sweets!

Ingredients:

for glaze:

• 175 g dark dark chocolate 70% or more;
• 100 g butter;
• 75 g of powdered sugar.

for filler:

• 25 g dark dark chocolate;
• 25 g of powdered sugar;
• 1 tsp instant coffee;
• 75 g butter;
• 2 tbsp boiling water.

Chocolate candy recipe at home.

1. We will prepare the icing and filling in a water bath. First, let's prepare the chocolate icing for the sweets.

In a small bowl, preferably deep, put the butter cut into pieces. Take a pot and fill it with water. We put our bowl of oil in a pot of water. We put on a gas stove, turn on a small fire.

2. As soon as the butter has melted, add the powdered sugar and stir well.

3. Next, break the chocolate into pieces and put in a bowl with butter and powdered sugar.

4. We do not stop stirring until all the chocolate is melted. As soon as the chocolate has melted, our glaze is ready.

Filling

5. Pour instant coffee with boiling water. It turns out very strong coffee, mix it thoroughly.

6. We make the filling in the same way as the icing, just pour more coffee into it.

7. We take silicone molds and pour some glaze into them. Spoon frosting onto the sides. We put in the refrigerator.

8. We cover a flat plate with parchment and pour the chocolate and coffee filling onto it. Put in the freezer until completely frozen.

As soon as our filling “freezes” well, we cut it into pieces, such that they fit into our molds.

9. We take out the molds with chocolate icing from the refrigerator. Hardened chocolate becomes matte.

10. We put the filling in the molds. It turns out much softer than glaze.

11. Fill everything with the remaining glaze. With a knife or spatula, smooth the surface of the sweets as much as possible.

We send our homemade chocolates to the refrigerator for 30 minutes, or better even overnight, so that they freeze well.

And in the morning you will have unique sweets ready for tea or coffee! The best cure for depression is chocolate. And such sweets will not only improve your mood, but also energize you before a working day. Bon appetit!

1. Balls "Dream" - a fantastic dessert without baking

It turns out much tastier than store-bought sweets!

Products:

1. Vanilla crackers - 150 gr
2. Milk - 100 ml
3. Condensed milk - 3 tablespoons
4. Cocoa - 2 tablespoons
5. vanilla pinch
6. Butter - 50 gr
7. Crushed nuts - optional
8. Sugar - 2 tablespoons
9. Liquor - 1 tbsp (optional)

For glaze:

1. Chocolate - 100 gr
2. Oil - 1 tablespoon
3. Sour cream - 1 tablespoon

How to make a no-bake dessert:

1. Grind crackers with a blender and add cocoa, mix.
2. Bring the milk to a boil and cool slightly, then add butter, sugar and vanilla to it.
3. Stir the mixture until the sugar dissolves.
4. We combine the milk mixture with the dry one, add condensed milk, liquor and pour nuts, mix well.
5. We remove the mass for 1 hour in the refrigerator.
6. After the allotted time, we take it out of the refrigerator and form small balls with a teaspoon.
7. For glaze, melt all the ingredients in a water bath.
8. We dip the balls into the icing one at a time and carefully remove them with a fork, put them on tracing paper.
9. Put the balls in the freezer for 20 minutes.

Happy tea!

2. Butterscotch "Tyanuchki" on baked milk

The favorite dessert of the Soviet era - toffee candies - have acquired a different taste, and sometimes you really want to treat children with real toffee according to the classic recipe.

Products:

1. Milk (baked) - 200 ml.
2. Sugar - 150-200 gr.
3. Honey - 2 tbsp. spoons
4. Butter - 30 gr.
5. Vanillin - 1 pack

How to cook toffees "Tyanuchki" on baked milk:

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and pour over the boiled milk.

Cook over medium heat for about 30 minutes, stirring constantly.

The finished mass should be thick, with a bright caramel color.

To make the toffees beautiful, I take ice molds. They need to be slightly lubricated with vegetable oil.

Then pour the mass and put it in the freezer for 30 minutes.

Happy tea!

3. Powdered milk candies

The recipe for making sweets from powdered milk is good because the main ingredients can be at hand at any time, so that a delicacy can be made for suddenly arriving guests. Spices are additional ingredients that can be added to taste (vanillin, cinnamon, cardamom).

Products:

1. Powdered milk - 250 gr
2. Sugar - 300-350 gr
3. Butter - 100 gr
4. Water - 100 ml
5. Cocoa - 2-3 tbsp. spoons
6. Spices to taste - 1 pinch

How to make candy from powdered milk:

1. The first step is to boil the sugar syrup. To do this, in a small saucepan you need to combine water and sugar and send to the fire. After boiling over low heat, boil the syrup for about 7-10 minutes until it begins to thicken a little.

2. Put butter in hot syrup and leave for a couple of minutes. Then mix everything thoroughly until smooth.

3. Gradually, in several stages, add milk powder, stirring constantly. The mass should be soft, elastic and without lumps.

4. It's time to add a pinch of your favorite spices. Powdered milk sweets at home can be made with cocoa (if desired, you can not add it, replacing it with coconut, for example). Mix everything thoroughly and send the mass to the refrigerator to solidify.

5. After 35-45 minutes, you can take out the blank and sculpt sweets. They can be given absolutely any shape and rolled in cocoa before serving.

Happy tea!

4. Homemade sweets “Raffaello”

The easiest recipe for making homemade Raffaello sweets

Products:

• Coconut flakes - 150 gr
• Almonds - 15-16 pcs.
• Condensed milk - 200 gr
• Butter - 25 gr

How to make homemade Raffaello sweets:

A small portion of coconut flakes (about 50 g) is set aside for sprinkling finished sweets.

You can pour boiling water over the almonds and leave for 5 minutes. Then peel and dry in a dry hot frying pan. Or you can use almonds along with the skins. Without the peel, the sweets are very tender. But with a peel - more useful.

We pinch off small pieces from the chilled coconut mass, crush them with our hands and place almonds in the middle of the cake. We roll into balls about the size of a walnut, lightly moisten them with water (not necessary) so that the chips stick better and roll in coconut flakes.

We send the finished balls to the refrigerator, and after a couple of hours we discover a little heavenly delight ...

These are the Raffaello "in haste" we got. Yes, by the way, sweets from this amount of products, it turns out 15-16 pcs.

Happy tea!

5. Healthy homemade sweets

Dedicated to sweet lovers.

Products:

• Dried apricots - 5 pcs.
• Walnut - 5 pcs.
• Honey - 1/2 tbsp. spoons
• Milk - 1 tbsp. spoon
• Bitter chocolate - 70-90 gr.
• Cocoa, sesame - for decoration

How to make healthy homemade sweets:

1. Bitter chocolate finely break and melt with milk in the microwave or in a water bath.
2. Finely chop the dried apricots and nuts.
3. Mix melted chocolate, nuts, dried apricots and honey. Refrigerate the entire mixture.
4. Roll up small balls from the resulting mass, cool again, roll in cocoa and sesame seeds.

Bon appetit!

6. Homemade toffee on sour cream

Butterscotch on sour cream is an amazing delicacy for you and your children. No dyes and flavors, only natural products!

I saw this simple homemade toffee recipe and I really wanted to cook it.

We just combine sour cream with sugar, what could be easier? And the taste is not rich sweet, but so unobtrusive, with a sour cream flavor.

You can eat as much as you like, they are not boring at all. Well, shall we start?

Products:

• Butter - 30 g
• Sugar - 220 gr
• Sour cream - 220 gr

How to cook toffee on sour cream:

To start cooking toffees, we need to take sour cream and sugar in equal proportions and add a little butter to them. If you want to make more toffee, then increase the amount of products.

2. We take a ladle, it is better if it is made of stainless steel than enameled. In a ladle, combine sour cream and sugar and a small piece of cooked butter. Place over medium heat, bring to a boil, stirring constantly. First, small bubbles will come to the surface. You need to stir constantly and do not move away from the stove.

3. After a while, the mixture will become like condensed milk. Keep stirring so the mixture doesn't burn to the bottom. Very soon, our future toffees will change color and become thick. If you want a darker color, cook longer. Stirring will become more difficult, but you need to increase the intensity.

When you are satisfied with the color of the toffees, remove them from the heat and add the butter. Oil must be intensively mixed with the composition.

It should be this thick. dark mixture. It must be quickly poured into molds or poured onto a flat surface. It is necessary to pre-lubricate the molds and the surface for solidification with butter.

You can take a silicone mold for sweets or a glass baking dish. You can use whatever utensils you have. If you pour the toffee not in molds, but on a flat surface, then while the toffee mixture is still warm, make cuts with a wet knife so that it will be easier to cut into pieces later.

08.02.2016

Hi all! Vika Leping is with you, and today I will tell you how to make delicious chocolates at home, because February 14 is coming soon, and gifts for Valentine's Day, as we all know, are first of all chocolates. So handmade sweets and excessive efforts will definitely be appreciated by your chosen one.

What to give your loved one on February 14 (or your beloved, of course) is one of the most frequently asked questions on the eve of the holiday called Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day gifts are, in fact, classics - handmade chocolates, a Valentine's card and flowers. It’s not worth being smart about anything, waiting for expensive gifts too, because in Catholic countries, where this holiday came from, this is a sign of bad taste.

On this day, you can simply cook dinner for your loved one, open a bottle of your favorite wine, sit in a romantic setting, consuming an original gift for February 14 for dessert - the most delicious sweets in the world, made with love and from natural ingredients. Look at the composition of store-bought sweets, I'm sure you will count more than 20 incomprehensible names. I will use only 3 + filler at will. Only 3 ingredients! Can you imagine?

When I asked myself how to make chocolate at home, I realized that almost all chocolate recipes are a mixture of cocoa powder and butter, which is completely wrong, because real chocolate is not made from cake powder, but from real cocoa beans and butter cocoa, and these are its irreplaceable ingredients. Therefore, I turned to a vegan friend for advice, who helped me with the proportions 🙂 So, if you still don’t know what to give a girl or a guy on February 14, we start preparing gifts from sweets.

So, a step-by-step photo recipe for chocolates, or how to make sweets at home.

Ingredients

• - grated beans (raw cocoa) - 50-100 gr
• - 50 gr
• - maple syrup or other sweeteners - to taste
• - or milk (can be dry) coconut or regular - to taste and optional
• - dried fruits, seeds, berries - optional

Cooking method

How to make chocolate at home? Yes, very easy! All you need is quality ingredients and silicone candy molds. The given amount of ingredients is enough for about 20 pieces. Let's start cooking, although it's more like meditation 🙂 By the way, you probably already realized that you don't have to use a candy mold, you can make a chocolate bar 😉

We start making chocolate by preparing all the ingredients. In each candy I will put cashew nuts or hazelnuts and some raisins. Only I love him in our family, so there will be few of them 🙂 We chop raw cocoa and cocoa butter into pieces, so they will melt faster.

We prepare a water bath. If you do not know how to make a water bath, then look at the photo below. We take a saucepan, pour a liter of water into it, bring it to a boil, reduce the heat to a minimum, and put a large bowl or pan, or a saucepan on top, the main thing is that it be heat-resistant, otherwise it will burst like mine.

Now put the grated cocoa beans and cocoa butter in a bowl in a water bath, stir with a silicone spatula until completely dissolved and turn off the heat. Handmade chocolate is almost ready 🙂

Add any sweetener. 1 teaspoon, stir until dissolved, then taste. If needed, add more. You can also add regular or coconut cream/milk at this point if you wish, then you will make regular milk or vegan milk chocolate.

By the way, if you are preparing ordinary milk chocolate, then to enhance the creamy taste, you can also add butter or ghee, which also hardens well. [ ] And another important point! The more milk, the more cocoa butter should be in relation to the beans, otherwise homemade chocolates may not harden. Therefore, the number of beans I have varies from 50 to 100 grams.

Here is the hot chocolate recipe! However, the recipe for chocolate sweets has not yet come to an end. We take a silicone mold or pour hot chocolate into the recesses. I did it with a teaspoon, it's more convenient.

It is important to keep in mind that if you want to add filling to delicious chocolates, then you don’t need to top up to the very brim, otherwise the cocoa chocolate will then flow over the sides.

Lay out the fillers. You can drown nuts or dried fruits in chocolate, but I like it better when the filling is visible. Small but delicious gifts for lovers are almost ready!

And if you didn’t have enough molds, you can pour the remaining real chocolate into cupcake molds, for example. We put delicious chocolate sweets in the refrigerator for about 1 hour.

Take it out of the fridge and carefully remove the natural chocolate from the molds. Now you know how to make chocolates at home! 🙂 Dots are visible on mine - this is honey. Such delicious gifts for Valentine's Day can be put in a beautiful box with a bow, or you can serve it on a silver platter 😉

And here are the super fast results!

Short recipe: chocolates at home, or how to make chocolate at home

1. In a water bath, melt the cocoa butter and grated cocoa beans, mix and turn off the heat.
2. Add 1 teaspoon of honey or other sweetener, mix until completely dissolved, try, add more if necessary.
3. If desired, add a little regular or coconut milk / cream (to taste), while reducing the amount of added cocoa beans (think in advance!). [ Addendum: I had no problems adding ghee and liquid coconut cream, but one of my friends had a chocolate layer for unknown reasons, so perhaps to completely eliminate the possibility of layering, you should use milk powder!]
4. Pour into molds, put in the refrigerator for 1 hour, then carefully remove the finished natural chocolates.
5. Now you know how chocolate candies are made!

Small delicious gifts for Valentine's Day are ready. As you can see, both bitter and milk chocolate recipes turned out to be very simple. By the way, my boyfriend Seryozha and I will go to a French restaurant on February 14 to try different sweets. To be honest, I have never been to such a restaurant, so I am waiting for something especially tasty and interesting. Then I will share my impressions of what I have eaten. And what will you do on this wonderful Valentine's Day?

I'll try my best to post another recipe. candy, but already berry, from agar-agar . More precisely, I will try to have time to cook, take pictures and tell you everything 🙂 And in order not to miss anything, , it's free! In addition, when you subscribe, you will receive as a gift a collection of full-fledged recipes of 20 dishes that are prepared very quickly, from 5 to 30 minutes, which will save a lot of your time! Eat fast and tasty - it's real!

And Vika Leping was with you! Try to bring chocolate recipes to life, put likes, leave comments, rate, tell what you did and remember that everyone can cook deliciously, that you are more talented than you can imagine and, of course, enjoy your food! I love you, be happy!

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Our stores are simply overflowing with all kinds of sweets for every taste. However, we all know that excessive consumption of sugar is quite harmful to our body. People are increasingly thinking that industrial cookies and sweets are of no use, since they contain quite a lot of sugar and chemicals.

Therefore, it is worth thinking about your health and finding a worthy, natural replacement for store-bought sweets.

And it exists - these are homemade sweets made from dried fruits.

These healthy sugar-free candies consist of natural products: nuts, honey and dried fruits. They are ideal for a healthy diet in families with small children, they will become a favorite and sought-after dessert.

The benefits of dried fruits

Dried fruits are made from fresh ripe fruits, as a result of a gentle processing (drying) process, a natural and very healthy product is obtained, which is rich in vitamins and microelements necessary for human health.

Eating dried fruits has a beneficial effect on all vital systems of the human body:

• Improves the work of the gastrointestinal tract, heart, nervous system; In addition, the condition of the skin, hair, nails and teeth improves significantly;
• The use of dried fruits strengthens the immune system and it becomes easier for a person to cope with all kinds of infections and viral diseases, which is especially important in the autumn-winter period.

However, in case of allergic reactions or intolerance of the body, the use of dried fruits should be refrained from. You should also remember that eating a lot of them is also not worth it, as they have a rather high calorie content.

Selection of dried fruits for making homemade sweets

To prepare delicious homemade dried fruit sweets, we recommend that you carefully choose the ingredients for making treats. It is advisable to buy dried fruits by weight in the market, from sellers whom you trust and are confident in the quality of the product.

It is worth paying attention to their appearance, you should not take too bright colors, as there is a high probability that they are treated with chemicals.

You will get healthy sweets without sugar if you take for their preparation:

Dates. This wonderful natural product is a good tool for the prevention of diseases of the heart, stomach, kidneys, as well as oncology. Dates should be eaten by women who are preparing for the birth of a child, to facilitate childbirth, nursing mothers to increase lactation. For men, this useful fruit will give energy and strength.

Raisin. It is valued for the fact that it contains a lot of iron, the use of raisins is very bad for anemia, heart disease, anemia. Also, it must be introduced into the diet if there are problems with the respiratory system.

Dried apricots. It is very useful in diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Also, dried apricots should be eaten by pregnant women to avoid a decrease in hemoglobin in the blood and anemia.

Prunes. Dried plum is recommended for stomach problems, constipation, helps in losing weight and improving the whole body. In addition, prunes have good antimicrobial properties and will help to cope with infectious diseases.

As you already understood, we will add nuts to our sweet treat. Let's dwell on their useful properties.

• Nuts contain almost all the vitamins that are so necessary for health, as well as a lot of magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and iron;
• Improve heart function and strengthen the nervous system, help recover from a heart attack;
• Nuts reduce blood cholesterol, prevent atherosclerosis, strokes, heart attacks, angina pectoris. Reduce high blood pressure;
• Rejuvenate the body and fight cancer;
• They are natural natural energetics, they restore strength very well after stressful situations and past illnesses;
• Nuts contain a large amount of vitamin E, which makes this product simply necessary for the beauty and health of the skin, hair, and strength of nails;
• For various skin diseases: eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis, you need to include nuts in your menu, this will help you recover faster;
• Amino acid - arginine contained in nuts strengthens the immune system, lowers blood sugar, helps to reduce excess weight, strengthens sexual function.

Dried fruits and nuts recipe

Let's quickly move from words to deeds and prepare delicious, and most importantly very useful for the body, homemade sweets from dried fruits and nuts.

Cooking Ingredients:

• Dried fruits: raisins, dried apricots and prunes - total weight 300 grams;
• Hazelnuts and walnuts - 100 grams;
• Cocoa powder or coconut flakes to decorate our sweets.

Cooking:

1. To begin with, we will wash the dried fruits well and pour boiling water over them. This must be done so that various unnecessary impurities and bacteria do not get into our dessert.
2. Grind well-washed dried fruits with a blender or with a meat grinder. You can do this with an ordinary knife, but the more homogeneous the candy mass is, the better our delicacy will turn out.
3. We chop the walnuts too, and leave the hazelnuts whole.
4. We mix chopped nuts and dried fruits and proceed to the formation of sweets.
5. Take a whole hazelnut and form a neat ball around it from the prepared dried fruit mass.
6. Roll the finished ball in cocoa or coconut flakes and put on a dish. Thus, from this amount of products, we will get 15 sweets with a diameter of 2 centimeters.

Ready sweets can be sent to the refrigerator for several hours so that they freeze better, or you can immediately treat them to your kids.

Children will like such sweets, and parents can be calm, because the composition of sweets is healthy and natural.

Recipe for sweets with nuts - option number 2

Ingredients:

• Raisins, prunes, dates and dried apricots - we take 100 grams each, the total weight will be 400 grams;
• Peanuts - 50 grams;
• Sesame - 50 grams;
• Walnuts - 150 grams;
• Natural honey, good quality - 3 tablespoons.

It is important to know that natural dried fruits look unsightly and dry, they need to be bought on the market. Soft, shiny and beautiful, you should not take it, as they are chemically treated or soaked in sugar syrup.

Cooking:

1. Wash the dried fruits well, if they are hard and overdried, then you need to soak them for fifteen minutes in hot water.
2. Cut dried apricots, dates and prunes into small pieces, and then grind everything in a blender or a simple meat grinder.
3. Nuts also need to be crushed, we do this in an ordinary mortar with a pestle.
4. Add nuts to ground dried fruits and season this splendor with honey. Now everything is well mixed until a homogeneous mass.
5. From this dough we roll balls in size like a walnut and roll them well in sesame seeds. You can put the sweets in the refrigerator for two hours, for better solidification.

A delicious royal dessert is ready, this delicacy will be a great gift for your little sweet tooth.

Candies from dried fruits and nuts with dates

I offer a recipe for homemade sugar-free sweets, dates will add sweetness to our dessert, and this is much tastier and healthier.

Ingredients:

• Dates - 100 grams;
• Dried apricots - 100 grams;
• Raisins - 100 grams;
• Prunes - 100 grams;
• Walnuts or nut mixture - 100 grams;
• Lemon or honey, depending on taste preferences;
• Sesame, cocoa, coconut flakes, chopped peanuts - for sprinkling.

Cooking:

1. Rinse dried fruits well several times and dry. Remove pits from dates. Then cut the walnuts into fairly large pieces.
2. After that, grind in a blender, not very much. You can use a regular meat grinder for this purpose.
3. Add a little lemon zest and juice to the resulting mass. This will give the dessert a light acidity and a refreshing citrus aroma.
4. If you like sweet more than sour, you can add a little honey instead of lemon.
5. Pour chopped peanuts, cocoa with sesame seeds and coconut flakes into different plates.
6. We sculpt small balls from the resulting mass and to make the sweets beautiful, roll them in powder. After that, put it in the refrigerator for one hour.

• Dried fruit and nut candy recipes can be changed according to your taste preferences, show your culinary imagination and add various combinations of products as you wish. You can try making sweets from dried cherries, cranberries, pears or apples;
• Walnuts and hazelnuts can be replaced with almonds, peanuts or pine nuts, and if you make a nut mix, then the taste of the dessert will be just great;
• If you like sour, then you can make healthy sweets without sugar by adding lemon zest and juice, and quite a bit of honey;
• If the candy mixture turned out to be too dry and a ball is poorly formed from it, then dilute the mass with liquid natural honey. If the “dough” is too liquid, then you can add chopped nuts or almond flour to it;
• As a sprinkle, in addition to coconut and cocoa, you can use grated chocolate, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, crushed sunflower seeds, confectionery sprinkles.

Candies from dried fruits and honey, in chocolate