Hello my dear readers and guests of the blog! Do-it-yourself sweets are a strong competitor to store-bought sweets - this fact will be confirmed by any gourmet. Not only naturalness and freshness speak in favor of homemade treats, but also a wonderful opportunity to select ingredients in accordance with family preferences. And today I will share with you the secrets of cooking the most delicious and original delicacies!
How to make candy at home
Having prepared one of the dishes I offer at home, you will definitely not remain indifferent.
Sweets "Bird's milk" with their own hands
Product set:
- Butter (100 grams)
- Dark chocolate (1 bar)
- Sugar (to taste)
- Gelatin (15 grams)
- Fresh chicken proteins (4 pieces)
Cooking technique:
- Pour a spoonful of gelatin with 100 milliliters of boiled water (it should be room temperature). After waiting for swelling, place the composition on the stove and bring to a boil.
- Now you need to beat the whites with sugar well (the amount of sand is adjusted to taste). In parts, enter the cooled gelatin mass.
- Break the chocolate bar. Join butter and melt the sweet pieces in a water bath. Can be cooked if desired. homemade glaze- it will adequately replace the purchased dessert.
- Separate half of the chocolate mixture. Spread it on the bottom of a deep baking sheet lined with baking paper, and then immediately place the container in the refrigerator.
- When the chocolate hardens slightly, it's time to lay out the lush protein mass. On top of it you need to pour the rest of the glaze, preheated to a warm state.
- Put the form in the refrigerator and wait for the chocolate shell to completely harden.
- Next, the dessert is cut into pieces of the desired shape. Delicate soufflés Perfect with tea and coffee!
Wafer sweets at home
Product set:
- Dry infant formula like "Baby" (1 cup)
- Coconut flakes or cocoa powder (for sprinkling)
- Butter (80-100 grams)
- Wafers with any filling (200 grams)
Cooking technique:
- Separate waffles into layers. Carefully remove the filling: it must be combined with softened butter.
- Pour the baby formula in small parts - the result should be a thick, dense mass. Roll into balls of the same size.
- Crumble the “empty” waffles, and use the resulting crumb for breading sweet rounds.
- At the end, candies can be rolled in coconut flakes or generously sprinkle with cocoa - be guided by personal taste!
How to make candy "Korovka" at home
Product set:
- Citric acid - you can take freshly squeezed juice (half a teaspoon)
- Milk (1 glass)
- Honey (45 grams)
- Butter (a couple of tablespoons)
- Sugar (one and a half - two glasses)
Cooking technique:
- Boil milk in a small saucepan.
- Enter 25-30 grams of butter. Add sugar at the same time.
- Stir the composition thoroughly and wait for the boil again.
- Continue to cook the sweet mass until thickened. Then stir in lemon juice and honey.
- After 35-40 minutes, the saucepan can be set aside from the heat. Distribute the candy base among the molds (a container for regular or figured ice is suitable).
- Refrigerate the mold until completely set. Tasting the homemade “Korovka”, you will certainly be amazed at the delicate texture and amazing taste of the delicacy!
Diet pumpkin sweets
Product set:
- Pumpkin puree (1 cup)
- Ground cinnamon (half a teaspoon)
- Powdered ginger (at the tip of a knife)
- Butter (50 grams)
- Ground nuts (half a cup)
- Sugar (200 grams)
- Salt (quarter teaspoon)
- Cocoa powder (15 grams)
- Milk (200 milliliters)
- Vanilla sugar (1 teaspoon)
Cooking technique:
- For mashed potatoes, you need to cut the pumpkin into slices, bake in the oven until softened and carefully grind with a blender.
- Place the vegetable mass in a saucepan, accompanying with sugar and vanilla. Salt and pour in the milk. After mixing, send the composition to the stove and boil over high heat until boiling.
- Now reduce the heat to a minimum and leave the mass to cook for another forty minutes. From the beginning of caramelization, the mixture must be constantly stirred, otherwise it will burn.
- In the end, the mass will begin to resemble marmalade and will begin to easily separate from the bottom of the container - it's time to remove it from the stove.
- Add a couple of tablespoons of butter and a small portion of crushed nuts. For flavoring, throw fragrant spices - cinnamon and ginger.
- Put the homogeneous mass into a bowl. Cool and refrigerate for a couple of hours.
- Combine the remaining nuts with cocoa powder and use for breading: separate the candy mixture with a teaspoon, roll into balls and roll generously. Dessert rounds should be stored in the cold.
How to make lollipops at home
Product set:
- Diluted citric acid (half a teaspoon)
- Sugar (250 grams)
- Water (half a glass)
- Fruit juice (1 tablespoon)
- Powdered sugar (large amount)
- Food coloring of any shade
Cooking technique:
- Heat sugar and water in a heavy bottomed saucepan. After the syrup boils a little, drop a little liquid directly into the saucer with cold water-when it begins to thicken, the dishes can be removed from the heat.
- Mix in any flavor of your choice - it can be fruit / berry juice, milk, cocoa or coffee.
- Add food coloring, as well as citric acid dissolved in hot water 1:1. Mix thoroughly.
- Level the powdered sugar on the baking sheet - there should be a lot of it.
- Now take any rounded object of a suitable diameter (the size of the lollipops will correspond to it). Press into sweet powder for a crisp impression. Make recesses in a checkerboard pattern.
- Spread the sticks under the lollipops and fill the holes with syrup.
- Wait for the sweets to harden. In the future, so that the sweets do not stick together, they can be generously sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Drunk candy for adults
Product set:
- Light rum (2 tablespoons)
- Butter (50 grams)
- Almonds (half a cup)
- Cherry liqueur (20 milliliters)
- Chicken egg (1 whole + 1 protein)
- Dark chocolate (150 grams)
- Powdered sugar (half a cup)
- Milk chocolate (20 grams)
Cooking technique:
- Boil and peel the egg. Beat the butter until it turns white; then combine with boiled yolk and grind until smooth.
- Add a tablespoon of alcohol different varieties. Liquor can be any, but cherry is still preferable.
- Dark chocolate must be melted in a water bath (set aside a few cubes for making marzipan). Further, he also joins the composition.
- After thorough mixing, the filling is sent to the refrigerator for the next hour.
- In the meantime, peel and crush the nuts to a state of fine crumbs (to easily remove the husk from the almonds, steam them with boiling water for 5 minutes). Pieces of dark chocolate also need to be crushed on a grater.
- Enter the remaining rum, sweet powder and raw protein. Stir the mass with a mixer or blender for three minutes, then put in the refrigerator for an hour.
- After cooling, you need to make a neat “sausage” from almond marzipan (be sure to spread baking paper on the countertop).
- Cut the workpiece into equal parts and roll up rounds. Turn them into cakes, then lay out the filling and fasten the edges, forming sweet balls with filling.
- Grate the milk chocolate and roll the sweets one by one. The meal is ready to serve!
How to make cottage cheese sweets with strawberries at home
Product set:
- Curd (250 grams)
- Fresh or frozen strawberries (1 cup)
- Sweet coconut flakes (a couple of tablespoons)
- Butter (30 grams)
- Breadcrumbs(for sprinkling)
- Chicken egg (1 piece)
- Sugar (75 grams)
- Flour (1 incomplete glass)
Cooking technique:
- Whisk the egg with sugar. Add cottage cheese and butter, still continuing to beat.
- Enter flour and knead curd dough.
- Divide the base into small parts - form cakes out of them.
- For each blank, “plant” one strawberry. Roll up rounds, sprinkling flour on your hands for convenience.
- Now the "koloboks" need to be immersed in boiling water - so that the cottage cheese "grabs". Keep them on the stove for three minutes after surfacing.
- Remove the balls with a slotted spoon. Bread each candy in a mixture of breadcrumbs and coconut flakes.
Do-it-yourself toffees on sour cream
Product set:
- Honey (half a cup)
- Sugar (1.5 cups)
- Softened butter (100 grams)
- Sour cream (one and a half cups)
Cooking technique:
- Mix sugar and honey and set over medium heat. Wait until it boils while constantly stirring the ingredients.
- When the mixture turns a beautiful amber color, remove the pan from the stove.
- In a separate container, bring the sour cream to a temperature of 80 degrees. Then add to the sugar-honey mass.
- Enter soft butter. After thorough mixing, return the composition to a small fire and boil for several minutes with constant stirring.
- You can test the readiness like this: scoop up some of the sweet mixture with a spoon, put it on a plate and wait a bit - the toffee should soon harden. You can add more honey or sugar if needed.
- Take baking paper and line the surface of the baking sheet. Process the parchment vegetable oil, lay out the candy mass and smooth it well.
- After a quarter of an hour, the toffee will only be cut and served with fragrant tea.
Orange sweets at home
Product set:
- Semolina (30 grams)
- Peanuts (50 grams)
- Orange (1 fruit)
- Powdered sugar (15 grams)
- Water (50 milliliters)
- Sugar (80 grams)
- Egg white (1 piece)
- confectionery powder (optional)
- Lime (1 piece)
Cooking technique:
- Rinse the lime and orange well. Remove the zest from the orange fruit, squeeze the juice from the remaining pulp.
- Now squeeze the juice out of the lime. In total, for dessert you will need half a glass of fresh juice - mixed with orange and lime.
- Pour the juice into a small saucepan or saucepan. Pour the crushed zest and granulated sugar, add a quarter cup of water.
- Heat the composition over low heat with constant stirring. After boiling, keep it on the stove for another three minutes.
- Start pouring semolina in small portions. Boil the mass until thickened - usually five minutes are allotted for this.
- Crush the nuts with a blender and add to the semolina-citrus porridge.
- Roll into balls of any size. Lay the products on a dish and refrigerate until set.
- Making a delicious icing for homemade sweets is a couple of trifles: just beat chicken protein with sweet powder.
- Additionally, colored confectionery powder will help decorate orange balls.
Delicious sweets for diabetics at home
Product set:
- Dried figs (140 grams)
- Sugar substitute (to taste)
- Walnuts - optional (half a cup)
- Chickpeas or lentils (1 cup)
- Cocoa powder (20-30 grams)
- Water - can be replaced with cognac (60-70 milliliters)
Cooking technique:
- On the eve of cooking, the beans must be soaked in cool water - leave them overnight. It is advisable to do the same with figs so that they soften well.
- Pour the washed lentils or chickpeas into a glass of water. Boil over moderate heat for 50-60 minutes, until fully cooked.
- Drain the liquid and let the beans dry. Next, you need to chop them with a blender.
- When chopping dried fruits, it is recommended to leave some medium-sized slices - this will be tastier.
- Nuts are added as desired. If you approve of this product, it will have to be carefully crushed.
- Mix chickpea base, figs and nuts. Add sugar substitute and mix well.
- When you have an absolutely homogeneous mass in your hands, you can safely form products. Give the candies any shape you like.
- For greater beauty, dessert yummy should be generously sprinkled with cocoa.
Now you know how to make candy at home. Hope you enjoy the recipes. Bon Appetit and see you again!
Chocolate is the true weakness of all sweet tooth! It has long been a myth that chocolate is harmful, but it is absolutely not true, the main thing is to use it in reasonable quantities. Chocolate has invaluable benefits for humans:
- slows down the aging process in the body,
- improves mental activity,
- improves mood,
- enhances libido,
- helps to increase immunity.
On the basis of this product, a wonderful delicacy is prepared at home, which no one can resist - chocolates. However, store-bought chocolates, in addition to useful substances, often contain harmful chemical additives, but this is not a reason to completely abandon this delicacy! We invite all sweet tooths, as well as just dreamers and creative people to experiment and make chocolates on their own! Especially for you, we have collected recipes on how to make the most popular chocolates at home. They are not only not inferior to their counterparts presented for sale, but palatability, but even surpass them! In addition, the preparation of such sweets at home will be much more economical, which, of course, any reasonable hostess will like!
Chocolates in a hurry
This is the easiest recipe for how to make chocolates at home. However, the resulting delicacy will have an amazing taste, and cooking will not take much effort. We advise you to try!
- 250 grams of cocoa powder;
- 150 grams of butter;
- 150 ml of water;
- 100 mo of milk;
- 30 grams of flour;
- 120 grams of granulated sugar.
Cooking:
Water is poured into a saucepan and heated, but not brought to a boil. At this time, the butter must be melted in microwave oven or in a water bath and mix it with cocoa powder until a homogeneous consistency. A mixture of butter and cocoa, milk, flour and sugar is added to the heated water. All this is thoroughly mixed, avoiding the formation of lumps.
In the prepared container, on the bottom of which food foil is spread, the chocolate mixture is poured, which must be evenly distributed over the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe container. After that, the dishes with chocolate mass are put into the freezer for 2 hours until hardened. The frozen delicacy is cut into pieces and ready to eat!
Sweets "chocolate surprise"
Such chocolate treat very often found in gift boxes! We are used to buying such sweets for ourselves and our family, as well as giving them as gifts. However, this sweetness can be made at home on your own, putting a piece of your soul into them and presenting it as a gift to a loved one. These handmade sweets will be appreciated by everyone!
- 200 grams of dark chocolate;
- 150 grams of almonds;
- 100 grams of dates;
- 50 grams white chocolate.
Cooking:
First of all, you need to melt dark and white chocolate in a water bath in different containers. While the chocolate is melting, there is time to remove the pits from the dates, and instead put 1-2 nuts there. After that, white chocolate is carefully applied to the place where the incision was made on the date in order to hold the filling together. After that, dates with white chocolate must be removed for 2 hours in the freezer.
After the time has elapsed, the dates in white chocolate are removed from the refrigerator and they must be completely dipped one by one in the melted dark chocolate and put on food foil. After everything is done, the sweets are again put into the freezer for 3-4 hours until the chocolate has completely solidified.
Ready-made sweets, on top you can decorate with white chocolate and coconut flakes. Such a delicacy will not leave anyone indifferent!
"Bird's milk"
Candy " bird's milk»We are all familiar with since childhood, however, few have tried to cook them at home on their own. And in vain! They are very easy to make and any beginner cook can do it.
Ingredients needed for cooking;
- 200 grams of chocolate;
- 3 egg whites;
- 3 grams citric acid;
- 200 grams of granulated sugar;
- 30 grams of gelatin;
- 150 grams of condensed milk;
- 150 grams of butter.
Cooking:
First of all, gelatin must be poured with cold water and left for 25 minutes so that it swells. At this time, the proteins are whipped with a mixer, while citric acid must be gradually added to them.
Butter must be melted in a water bath and mixed with condensed milk. Back to gelatin. Sugar and gelatin are added to the container with the frozen mass, the mixture is heated in a water bath.
"Don't bring the gelatin to a boil, otherwise it will not thicken, which can ruin the process of making sweets."
After heating the mass, it must be mixed with whipped proteins, melted butter and condensed milk until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. The resulting mass is laid out in the prepared form in which it is planned to make sweets, and then it is put into the freezer for 2 hours until it hardens.
At this time, it is necessary to melt the chocolate in a water bath and cool it. After 2 hours, the resulting soufflé is dipped into melted chocolate and laid out on foil, after which the bird's milk is again put into the refrigerator so that the chocolate hardens.
At the final stage, you can decorate bird's milk with whipped cream or do without it. Homemade sweets "Bird's milk" are much tastier than those sold in stores. Treat your loved ones to these sweets once, and they will ask for them very often!
Cooking truffles
Truffles are an exquisite delicacy loved by many gourmets. However, these sweets have one drawback - they are quite expensive compared to other sweets. Here comes the recipe for how to make truffles at home! Homemade truffles will turn out to be very tasty and more economical than their counterparts from store shelves.
Ingredients needed for cooking:
- 200 grams of bitter chocolate;
- 65 mo of heavy cream;
- 40 grams of powdered sugar;
- 30 ml brandy;
- 25 grams of chopped nuts;
- 80 grams of cocoa powder.
Cooking:
Chocolate should be melted in a water bath. At this time, the cream is mixed with powdered sugar, heated, but not brought to a boil, and the mass is mixed. After that, the resulting mass is added to the melted chocolate and everything should be mixed again.
Then cognac and nuts are added to the same container, the mixture is thoroughly mixed again. After that, the mass is removed in the refrigerator for 90 minutes. After an hour and a half, it is removed from the refrigerator, the consistency should be like plasticine.
Cocoa powder is poured into the plate, and the hands are wetted with water, and the process of forming truffles begins - sculpt them either in a round or triangular shape. After the truffle is formed, it is dipped in cocoa powder.
The resulting truffles are put in the refrigerator for 60 minutes, and after the time has elapsed, they are ready to eat!
Sweets "Toffee"
Anyone who has tried these sweets at least once will never be indifferent to them! An amazing combination of toffee, nuts and chocolate makes these sweets extremely tasty! Toffee treat is loved by both children and adults. Try to cook Toffee yourself at home, we assure you, absolutely everyone will like them!
Ingredients needed for cooking:
- 200 grams of tile creamy toffee;
- 40 grams of hazelnuts;
- 40 grams of dark chocolate;
- 60 ml cream;
- 25 grams of butter;
- A little sunflower oil.
Cooking:
Creamy toffee is crushed and melted in a water bath. To make sweets, 10 grams of butter, 30 ml of cream are also added to this mass, and everything is thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. Hazelnuts are peeled and lightly roasted. The candy mold is smeared sunflower oil and melted toffee is distributed into its cells. It is necessary to put 1 nut in each cell so that it is in the center of the toffee mass.
After that, the form is sent for 20 minutes in the refrigerator. At this time, the chocolate is melted in a water bath, and then the remaining cream and butter are added to it.
After 20 minutes, the form with sweets is removed from the refrigerator and the chocolate mass is carefully laid out on top of each candy. When everything is done, the form with sweets is removed for 5 hours in the refrigerator. After the time has elapsed, Toffee sweets are ready, you can treat yourself and your household with them!
"Grillage in chocolate"
Grillage in chocolate is a very popular candy. This oriental sweetness It's also very easy to make your own at home. There is nothing complicated in the recipe, everyone can handle it!
Ingredients needed for cooking:
- 500 grams of walnuts;
- 150 grams of granulated sugar;
- 70 ml of water;
- 30 ml of lemon juice;
- 200 grams of dark chocolate;
- 50 ml brandy.
Cooking:
First of all, you need to grind Walnut. Then water is poured into the pan and sugar is poured out, this mixture is put on a slow fire and boiled until a thick consistency and a golden color. After the syrup is ready, add to it lemon juice and chopped walnuts and mix everything thoroughly. Time to start making candy! To do this, you need to take a small amount of mass and give the sweets a round or oblong shape. The finished roast is left for 30 minutes in the refrigerator. At this time, dark chocolate must be melted in a water bath, and then add cognac to it and mix thoroughly.
After chocolate glaze ready, the roasting is removed from the refrigerator and each candy must be soaked in the chocolate mass. Ready sweets are laid out on food foil and sent to the freezer for 2 hours until solidified. After the time has elapsed, chocolate candies "grillage in chocolate" are ready to eat!
Tips for making chocolates at home
In order for chocolates prepared by yourself to turn out delicious the first time, you need to follow a few subtleties. Familiarize yourself with them and you will avoid many of the mistakes that are made quite often when making this delicacy:
In the process of creating candy recipes, any heated mass should never be brought to a boil, so it is necessary to monitor the heating process and remove the container in which chocolate, milk or something else is heated before the product starts to boil.
In order to prepare sweets, it is necessary to use only fresh products of good quality.
Advice: “never use stale milk and dairy products, gelatin, the packaging of which was opened more than 2 months ago, to make sweets at home, this can lead to a sad result, the most harmless of which will be that the sweets will not turn out.”
To prepare this delicacy, purchase a special form with cells. This will allow you to give them any desired shape, get them beautiful and appetizing.
Be smart! Perhaps at home, you want to add some vanilla, marzipan or nut crumbs to the sweets, this can be easily done! And if you do not like dark chocolate, then replace it with milk chocolate, most importantly, take chocolate without filler.
The form filled with sweets must be closed when putting it in the freezer - use cling film for this. Otherwise, the sweets will acquire a not very pleasant smell and become not so appetizing. Make sweets in a good mood and put a piece of your soul into it - this is the key to an excellent result!
As you can see, making chocolate candies at home is quite easy, and most importantly, it does not require any rare ingredients. Therefore, no matter what chocolate recipe you choose, it can easily be implemented in every kitchen!
For many centuries, the traditions and recipes for making modern sweets have been passed from one generation to the next. Being a wonderful family treat, they add some special warmth to any festive or family table.
"Bird's milk" do it yourself
Product set:
- Butter (100 grams)
- Dark chocolate (1 bar)
- Sugar (to taste)
- Gelatin (15 grams)
- Fresh chicken proteins (4 pieces)
Cooking technique:
- Pour a spoonful of gelatin with 100 milliliters of boiled water (it should be at room temperature). After waiting for swelling, place the composition on the stove and bring to a boil.
- Now you need to beat the whites with sugar well (the amount of sand is adjusted to taste). In parts, enter the cooled gelatin mass.
- Break the chocolate bar. Add the butter and melt the sweet pieces in a water bath. If you wish, you can cook homemade glaze - it will adequately replace the purchased dessert.
- Separate half of the chocolate mixture. Spread it on the bottom of a deep baking sheet lined with baking paper, and then immediately place the container in the refrigerator.
- When the chocolate hardens slightly, it's time to lay out the lush protein mass. On top of it you need to pour the rest of the glaze, preheated to a warm state.
- Put the form in the refrigerator and wait for the chocolate shell to completely harden.
- Next, the dessert is cut into pieces of the desired shape. Delicate soufflés perfectly harmonize with tea and coffee!
Waffle at home
Product set:
- Dry infant formula like "Baby" (1 cup)
- Coconut flakes or cocoa powder (for sprinkling)
- Butter (80-100 grams)
- Wafers with any filling (200 grams)
Cooking technique:
- Separate waffles into layers. Carefully remove the filling: it must be combined with softened butter.
- Pour the baby formula in small parts - the result should be a thick, dense mass. Roll into balls of the same size.
- Crumble the “empty” waffles, and use the resulting crumb for breading sweet rounds.
- At the end, you can roll in coconut flakes or generously sprinkle with cocoa - be guided by personal taste!
Product set:
- Citric acid - you can take freshly squeezed juice (half a teaspoon)
- Milk (1 glass)
- Honey (45 grams)
- Butter (a couple of tablespoons)
- Sugar (one and a half - two glasses)
Cooking technique:
- Boil milk in a small saucepan.
- Enter 25-30 grams of butter. Add sugar at the same time.
- Stir the composition thoroughly and wait for the boil again.
- Continue to cook the sweet mass until thickened. Then stir in lemon juice and honey.
- After 35-40 minutes, the saucepan can be set aside from the heat. Distribute the candy base among the molds (a container for regular or figured ice is suitable).
- Refrigerate the mold until completely set. Tasting the homemade “Korovka”, you will certainly be amazed at the delicate texture and amazing taste of the delicacy!
Product set:
- Pumpkin puree (1 cup)
- Ground cinnamon (half a teaspoon)
- Powdered ginger (at the tip of a knife)
- Butter (50 grams)
- Ground nuts (half a cup)
- Sugar (200 grams)
- Salt (quarter teaspoon)
- Cocoa powder (15 grams)
- Milk (200 milliliters)
- Vanilla sugar (1 teaspoon)
Cooking technique:
- For mashed potatoes, you need to cut the pumpkin into slices, bake in the oven until softened and carefully grind with a blender.
- Place the vegetable mass in a saucepan, accompanying with sugar and vanilla. Salt and pour in the milk. After mixing, send the composition to the stove and boil over high heat until boiling.
- Now reduce the heat to a minimum and leave the mass to cook for another forty minutes. From the beginning of caramelization, the mixture must be constantly stirred, otherwise it will burn.
- In the end, the mass will begin to resemble marmalade and will begin to easily separate from the bottom of the container - it's time to remove it from the stove.
- Add a couple of tablespoons of butter and a small portion of crushed nuts. For flavoring, throw fragrant spices - cinnamon and ginger.
- Put the homogeneous mass into a bowl. Cool and refrigerate for a couple of hours.
- Combine the remaining nuts with cocoa powder and use for breading: separate the candy mixture with a teaspoon, roll into balls and roll generously. Dessert rounds should be stored in the cold.
How to make lollipops at home
Product set:
- Diluted citric acid (half a teaspoon)
- Sugar (250 grams)
- Water (half a glass)
- Fruit juice (1 tablespoon)
- Powdered sugar (large amount)
- Food coloring of any shade
Cooking technique:
- Heat sugar and water in a heavy bottomed saucepan. After the syrup boils a little, drop a little liquid directly into a saucer of cold water - when it begins to thicken, the dishes can be removed from the heat.
- Mix in any flavor of your choice - it can be fruit / berry juice, milk, cocoa or coffee.
- Add food coloring and citric acid dissolved in hot water 1:1. Mix thoroughly.
- Level the powdered sugar on the baking sheet - there should be a lot of it.
- Now take any rounded object of a suitable diameter (the size of the lollipops will correspond to it). Press into sweet powder for a crisp impression. Make recesses in a checkerboard pattern.
- Spread the sticks under the lollipops and fill the holes with syrup.
- Wait for the sweets to harden. In the future, so that the sweets do not stick together, they can be generously sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Product set:
- Light rum (2 tablespoons)
- Butter (50 grams)
- Almonds (half a cup)
- Cherry liqueur (20 milliliters)
- Chicken egg (1 whole + 1 protein)
- Dark chocolate (150 grams)
- Powdered sugar (half a cup)
- Milk chocolate (20 grams)
Cooking technique:
- Boil and peel the egg. Beat the butter until it turns white; then combine with boiled yolk and grind until maximum uniformity.
- Add a tablespoon of different types of alcohol. Liquor can be any, but cherry is still preferable.
- Dark chocolate must be melted in a water bath (set aside a few cubes for making marzipan). Further, he also joins the composition.
- After thorough mixing, the filling is sent to the refrigerator for the next hour.
- In the meantime, peel and crush the nuts to a state of fine crumbs (to easily remove the husk from the almonds, steam them with boiling water for 5 minutes). Pieces of dark chocolate also need to be crushed on a grater.
- Enter the remaining rum, sweet powder and raw protein. Stir the mass with a mixer or blender for three minutes, then put in the refrigerator for an hour.
- After cooling, you need to make a neat “sausage” from almond marzipan (be sure to spread baking paper on the countertop).
- Cut the workpiece into equal parts and roll up rounds. Turn them into cakes, then lay out the filling and fasten the edges, forming sweet balls with filling.
- Grate the milk chocolate and roll the sweets one by one. The meal is ready to serve!
Curd with strawberries at home
Product set:
- Curd (250 grams)
- Fresh or frozen strawberries (1 cup)
- Sweet coconut flakes (a couple of tablespoons)
- Butter (30 grams)
- Breadcrumbs (for sprinkling)
- Chicken egg (1 piece)
- Sugar (75 grams)
- Flour (1 incomplete glass)
Cooking technique:
- Whisk the egg with sugar. Add cottage cheese and butter, still continuing to beat.
- Enter the flour and knead the curd dough.
- Divide the base into small parts - form cakes out of them.
- For each blank, “plant” one strawberry. Roll up rounds, sprinkling flour on your hands for convenience.
- Now the "koloboks" need to be immersed in boiling water - so that the cottage cheese "grabs". Keep them on the stove for three minutes after surfacing.
- Remove the balls with a slotted spoon. Bread each candy in a mixture of breadcrumbs and coconut flakes.
Product set:
- Honey (half a cup)
- Sugar (1.5 cups)
- Softened butter (100 grams)
- Sour cream (one and a half cups)
Cooking technique:
- Mix sugar and honey and set over medium heat. Wait until it boils while constantly stirring the ingredients.
- When the mixture turns a beautiful amber color, remove the pan from the stove.
- In a separate container, bring the sour cream to a temperature of 80 degrees. Then add to the sugar-honey mass.
- Enter soft butter. After thorough mixing, return the composition to a small fire and boil for several minutes with constant stirring.
- You can test the readiness like this: scoop up some of the sweet mixture with a spoon, put it on a plate and wait a bit - the toffee should soon harden. You can add more honey or sugar if needed.
- Take baking paper and line the surface of the baking sheet. Treat the parchment with vegetable oil, lay out the candy mass and smooth it well.
- After a quarter of an hour, the toffee will only be cut and served with fragrant tea.
Orange at home
Product set:
- Semolina (30 grams)
- Peanuts (50 grams)
- Orange (1 fruit)
- Powdered sugar (15 grams)
- Water (50 milliliters)
- Sugar (80 grams)
- Egg white (1 piece)
- confectionery powder (optional)
- Lime (1 piece)
Cooking technique:
- Rinse the lime and orange well. Remove the zest from the orange fruit, squeeze the juice from the remaining pulp.
- Now squeeze the juice out of the lime. In total, for dessert you will need half a glass of fresh juice - mixed with orange and lime.
- Pour the juice into a small saucepan or saucepan. Pour the crushed zest and granulated sugar, add a quarter cup of water.
- Heat the composition over low heat with constant stirring. After boiling, keep it on the stove for another three minutes.
- Start pouring semolina in small portions. Boil the mass until thickened - usually five minutes are allotted for this.
- Crush the nuts with a blender and add to the semolina-citrus porridge.
- Roll into balls of any size. Lay the products on a dish and refrigerate until set.
- Making a delicious icing for homemade sweets is a couple of trifles: just beat chicken protein with sweet powder.
- Additionally, colored confectionery powder will help decorate orange balls. Read more: .
Delicious sweets for diabetics at home
Product set:
- Dried figs (140 grams)
- Sugar substitute (to taste)
- Walnuts - optional (half a cup)
- Chickpeas or lentils (1 cup)
- Cocoa powder (20-30 grams)
- Water - can be replaced with cognac (60-70 milliliters)
Cooking technique:
- On the eve of cooking, the beans must be soaked in cool water - leave them overnight. It is advisable to do the same with figs so that they soften well.
- Pour the washed lentils or chickpeas into a glass of water. Boil over moderate heat for 50-60 minutes, until fully cooked.
- Drain the liquid and let the beans dry. Next, you need to chop them with a blender.
- When chopping dried fruits, it is recommended to leave some medium-sized slices - this will be tastier.
- Nuts are added as desired. If you approve of this product, it will have to be carefully crushed.
- Mix chickpea base, figs and nuts. Add sugar substitute and mix well.
- When you have an absolutely homogeneous mass in your hands, you can safely form products. Give the candies any shape you like.
- For greater beauty, dessert yummy should be generously sprinkled with cocoa.
Delicious chocolates can not only be bought in the store, but also made at home on your own. In this case, they will also turn out to be useful, because the delicacy will contain only high-quality chocolate and other natural ingredients without dyes, flavors and preservatives.
Ingredients: a can of unboiled condensed milk, 4 tbsp. l. cocoa powder, 1.5 tbsp. l. high-fat butter, any topping.
- The butter is cut into pieces and sent to the saucepan. It is brought to a liquid state on the smallest fire.
- Unboiled condensed milk is poured into the oil.
- All the cocoa powder is added there. The ingredients are well mixed until the mass is homogeneous.
- The finished “dough” is poured into a bowl and left to cool for 6-7 hours.
- Small balls are molded from the non-hot mass. This must be done with oiled hands, otherwise the mixture will stick strongly to the fingers.
The resulting sweets are crumbled in any suitable topping. To do this, you can take the usual grated chocolate or coconut.
Chocolates with dried fruits
Ingredients: 130 g each of figs and dates, 1 tsp. thick natural honey, cocoa powder, a handful of light sesame seeds, a bar of dark chocolate.
- Dried fruits are washed well, get rid of seeds, hard tails and cut into small pieces.
- Sesame seeds are poured into a dry frying pan and lightly fried. They should change color. After such processing, sesame seeds will have a pleasant nutty flavor and aroma.
- Dried fruits are crushed in a blender. Sesame and honey are added to them.
- Sweets are molded from the resulting mass. Insert a toothpick into each.
- Sweets are cooled for a quarter of an hour, and then poured with melted chocolate.
- The balls are laid out on parchment and again removed in the cold.
Toothpicks are removed from the resulting treat. Such chocolate candies with your own hands can be prepared from any other dried fruits.
Homemade treat with almonds and cocoa
Ingredients: 90 ml purified water, 200 g skimmed milk powder, 3 tbsp. l. peanut butter, the same amount of flour from black sesame and almonds, 2 tbsp. l. Jerusalem artichoke syrup, dark chocolate bar, cocoa powder.
- Water goes into the blender bowl. 150 g of milk powder and all sesame flour are poured to it, peanut butter is added.
- The mass is crushed, after which it is laid out in a mold and removed in the cold for solidification.
- Almonds are roasted in a dry frying pan and cut into pieces. Nuts are combined with Jerusalem artichoke syrup and the remaining dry milk.
- The chocolate melts.
- A nut mixture is laid out on top of the first frozen layer and the resulting layer is cut into pieces.
Each candy is drizzled with chocolate and generously sprinkled with cocoa powder. Dessert is removed in the cold until completely solidified.
How to make Snickers at home
Ingredients: 400 g unsalted peanuts, half as much dry cream, 1 tbsp. granulated sugar, 4 tbsp. l. whipping cream, 2 tbsp. l. butter and cocoa powder, dark chocolate bar.
- Cream is poured into the saucepan, cocoa and all the sand are added. On low heat, the mixture is brought to a boil, immediately removed from the stove and cooled.
- Peeled peanuts are roasted in a dry frying pan. Nuts are crushed in any convenient way. You can simply chop them with a knife or use a blender.
- Nut crumbs are poured into chocolate milk. Dried cream is gradually added. After mixing, a thick elastic mass will appear in the saucepan.
- With wet hands, sweets are formed from the resulting composition. They are covered with a bag or cling film and cleaned in the cold.
It remains to pour the frozen sweets with melted chocolate. Chilled tea treats are served.
Sweets with condensed milk
Ingredients: a can of unboiled condensed milk, 25 g of high-fat butter, 3 tsp. quality instant coffee, a handful of whole hazelnuts (roasted), dark chocolate for icing.
- All unboiled condensed milk is poured into a small saucepan. Pre-softened butter and dry coffee are added to it.
- On medium or low heat, the mass is cooked until thickened. You need to stir it often. The whole process usually takes 25 to 35 minutes. The exact time depends on the intensity of the fire.
- The mixture is poured into a plate and cooled to a dense consistency.
- Small balls are molded from the resulting sweet mass, which are laid out on a cutting board. One roasted hazelnut is pressed into the middle of each of them.
- Chocolate dissolves in a water bath. All candies are dipped into it one by one.
The delicacy is removed in the cool until it hardens.
Truffles made from cocoa and milk powder
Ingredients: 1.5 tbsp. granulated sugar, ½ tbsp. drinking water, half a pack of butter, 6 tbsp. l. cocoa powder, 400 g milk powder, 90 g walnut kernels.
- Immediately all the sugar in the saucepan is poured with drinking water. The container is put on fire. After boiling, the mixture is cooked for 3-4 minutes with frequent stirring.
- The saucepan is removed from the stove. While the syrup is still hot, the cocoa powder and butter dissolve. The ingredients are mixed and added powdered milk and chopped nuts.
- The resulting mass is removed in the refrigerator for an hour. Small balls are molded from it, each of which falls into cocoa.
The delicacy can be served immediately with tea or coffee.
Cooking "Bird's milk" with our own hands
Ingredients: 3 egg whites, ½ tsp. citric acid, 200 ml of drinking water and granulated sugar, 25 g of gelatin, half a can of unboiled condensed milk, half a pack of high-fat butter, tiles milk chocolate, a pinch of salt and vanillin, 2 tsp. milk. How to make Bird's Milk chocolates is described in detail below.
- Gelatin is poured into 100 ml of cold water and set aside.
- 100 g of softened butter is beaten with a mixer until fluffy and clarified.
- Condensed milk is gradually poured into it, while beating continues. Run the mixer at medium speed for at least 2 minutes.
- Sugar and vanilla are poured into the saucepan. They fill with the rest of the water. After 5 - 6 minutes of boiling the syrup, "lemon" is added to it, and after another 3 - 5 minutes it will be completely ready.
- Salted squirrels are whipped until thick fluffy foam. Checking their readiness is very simple. Turn the container upside down - the finished mass should not fall out of it.
- Syrup is poured into the lush mixture in a thin stream. The mixture is whipped with a mixer during the process.
- The cream is processed before cooling.
- Gelatin dissolved when heated is poured into it.
- V protein cream oil is gradually shifted. Whipping continues.
- The mass is poured into a silicone mold and left in the cold until solidified.
- For the glaze, melt the chocolate with the remaining butter and milk. It is poured over the already frozen soufflé.
It remains to cool the sweets and carefully cut.
Chocolate hazelnut treat
Ingredients: 90 g dark chocolate, 35 g butter, 1 tsp. ground cinnamon, 7 hazelnut kernels, cocoa powder, 90 g almonds.
- The almond turns into crumbs.
- The chocolate is broken and melted with butter in a water bath.
- The resulting mass is combined with nut crumbs and removed in the cold for half an hour.
- The mixture is divided into 7 equal parts.
- A cake is rolled out of each, inside of which a hazelnut nut is placed.
- Cocoa and cinnamon are mixed on a flat plate. The sweets are rolled in the resulting mixture, placed on a baking sheet, covered with a film and removed in the cold until solidified.
With fondant
Ingredients: 300 grams of dark chocolate, a can of unboiled condensed milk, 60 g of high-fat butter.
- Condensed milk is sent to a saucepan and slightly heated.
- It melts butter in it.
- Broken chocolate pieces are added. It turns out a dense homogeneous mass.
- It is poured into a silicone mold and sent to the refrigerator to harden.
The layer is cut into pieces. Sweets are immediately served with coffee.
Chocolates "Madeleine"
Ingredients: 45 g each of white chocolate and lemon and orange curd, half a bar of dark chocolate, 60 g of pitted prunes, 1 tbsp. l. rum, 1 tbsp. l. coarsely chopped almonds, 60 ml whipping cream.
- Candy will come in two colors. White chocolate is melted, half of it is poured into silicone molds. Then the citrus curd and the remaining chocolate mass are distributed.
- For dark sweets, prunes are finely chopped and poured with rum for 15 - 17 minutes.
- The cream is heated but not brought to a boil. Dark chocolate is added to them and a homogeneous mass is kneaded.
- Dark candies are poured into silicone molds according to the principle of white ones. Chocolate mass added in two layers, between which are prunes and almonds.
A delicacy of two colors is sent to the freezer to freeze.
Easy Recipe with Nutella
Ingredients: 2 dark chocolate bars (bitter), 10 pcs. hazelnuts, 10 pcs. any candied fruits to taste, 2 tbsp. l. Nutella.
- Chocolate bars are melted in a water bath. You can also do this in the microwave.
- Melted chocolate is smeared with a form for sweets and removed for 6 - 7 minutes in the cold.
- Candy base filled with Nutella. Also, a nut or candied fruit is pressed into it.
- The form must be knocked on the table so that excess air comes out of the filling.
- The rest of the chocolate is poured on top. The delicacy is removed in the cold.
This recipe for chocolates can be improved to your liking. For example, instead of candied fruits, add pieces of fresh fruit or m & m's inside the treat.
With liquid filling
Ingredients: 220 g raspberries, 160 g dark chocolate (over 56%), 1 tbsp. brown sugar.
- Raspberries are laid out in a saucepan. You can take both fresh and frozen berries. They fall asleep immediately with all the sugar. Jam is cooked over high heat for 8 - 9 minutes with frequent stirring. Then the mass is removed from the stove and rubbed through a fine sieve.
- The jam goes into the fridge. There it should acquire a jelly-like consistency.
- The chocolate melts. Its temperature must be at least 50 degrees. If you do not follow this rule, then white stains may appear on the finished candies or their base will turn out to be too grainy.
- Chocolate cools down quickly. The easiest way to do this is to place the container with it in a bowl of ice water. When the temperature of the mass drops sufficiently, you can remove the cold liquid.
- Over warm steam, the chocolate heats up a little again, half of it is poured into molds. Spread raspberry jam on top. The remaining chocolate is added.
The candy will solidify at room temperature in a dry place.
Cooking with white chocolate
Ingredients: 160 g white chocolate, 2 tbsp. l. freshly squeezed tangerine juice, 1 tsp. tangerine zest, a handful of berries.
- The chocolate is broken into small pieces and melted in a water bath.
- The zest is removed from the tangerine with the smallest grater and added to melted chocolate along with citrus juice.
- Any berries are laid out in molds. You can also take frozen ones.
- They are filled with the mass from the second step.
Homemade sweets are removed in the refrigerator until completely solidified.
"Bounty" in chocolate with their own hands
Ingredients: ½ can of unboiled condensed milk, 2 dark chocolate bars, 1.5 tbsp. coconut flakes.
- Coconut shavings are mixed with condensed milk.
- Bars are formed from a thick mass and sent for 15 - 17 minutes in the cold.
- Chocolate is melted in the microwave. Each bar is immersed in it.
Dessert is removed in the cool until completely solidified.
Handmade sweets make a great universal gift. It will certainly appeal to every person and will be relevant for any holiday. It remains only to pick up a beautiful box for a homemade treat.
Who doesn't love sweets? And the kids are completely crazy about all the goodies! Only you do not always know what store-bought sweets are made of. Therefore, it would not hurt to know how to make candies with your own hands from the available ingredients. Next, we will tell you how to make sweets at home quickly and easily.
Recipe 1. Great chocolates
You will be surprised how easy it is to make chocolates at home. You will need: walnuts (you can use peanuts), dark chocolate (about 150 g), 4 tablespoons of honey, cookies "For tea" (about 100 g), butter (50 g). Next, let's take a closer look at how chocolates are made:
- Grind nuts, cookies with a blender. Just do not turn everything into the smallest crumb, you should get just small pieces.
- Melt the butter on the stove, add honey there. Bring the mixture to a boil. We throw a loan there nuts nuts with cookies. Mix everything well to get a homogeneous thick mass.
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath. From the resulting mixture, roll the balls, dip in chocolate and lay out on the foil. Let it cool down and your candies are ready.
Recipe 2. Sugar treat
Now you will learn a simple recipe on how to make lollipops at home in a few minutes. This is a simple and beloved delicacy by many, but not everyone knows how to make sugar candies at home from simple products.
Take a container and mix in it about 200 ml of water, a couple of tablespoons of vinegar and 0.5 kg of sugar. Put on the stove and cook until the liquid turns bright yellow. Lubricate the molds of your choice with vegetable oil, and then pour in the sugar mixture and insert toothpicks. Minimum costs and maximum pleasure, as everyone can make sugar candies at home.
Recipe 3. Yummy jelly
Another recipe for your favorite treat - we will tell you how to make jelly candies at home from the available ingredients. You will need: instant gelatin, fruit juice (about 150 g), 0.5 cups of cold water, sugar (about 300 g).
Soak gelatin in cold water. Then prepare the syrup from sugar and juice: mix everything and cook on the stove until the sugar dissolves. Add dissolved gelatin to the mixture, then pour everything into molds and let it harden.
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Recipe 4. Homemade caramels
Do you know how to make caramel candies at home to surprise your loved ones? There is nothing difficult in this! To prepare milk caramels, take 0.5 liters of milk, butter (100 g), sugar (3-4 cups).
We put the milk on the stove, bring to a boil, add sugar and cook until a brownish mass forms. Then add butter there and cook for about 1-1.5 hours. Then pour the resulting mixture into molds.
Recipe 5. Appetizing toffees
It costs nothing to make sweets with your own hands, the photos demonstrate this. Also you can cook favorite treat childhood - toffee. You will need condensed milk (about 300 ml), 40 g flour, a glass of milk, butter (about 100 g).
Melt the butter over low heat, add the flour there and fry it until golden brown. Then pour in the condensed milk and cook for 10 minutes over low heat, stirring constantly. Milk must be heated to room temperature and added to the condensed milk. Cook the mass until it thickens. After that, put the mass into a mold and let it cool, and then cut into cubes or rectangles.
Do not be afraid to experiment, treat your family to various delicacies, as it is very easy to make candies, toffees and other sweets at home!
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