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Candies with peanuts, dried apricots, and prunes at home
What to give to the closest, dearest people? You want to put your soul into such a gift. You can certainly do this if you give them candies of your own making.
Candies with peanuts, dried apricots, and prunes at home can be made in silicone molds. If you choose a heart-shaped mold, then such candies will be relevant for any holiday, but especially on Valentine's Day. You can also find a box with corresponding decoration.
Preparation time: 50 minutes + 5 hours for hardening.
Ingredients
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- 120 g dark chocolate;
- 20 g cocoa butter;
- 80 g prunes;
- 30 g dried apricots;
- 1 tbsp peanut butter;
- 30 g roasted peanuts.
Preparation
We will make candies from dark chocolate. To soften it and make it more fluid, we will also need cocoa butter. For the filling, we will take dried apricots, peanuts, prunes, and a little peanut butter.
1. Cut the chocolate into small pieces. Set aside a quarter of the total amount.
2. Place the chocolate together with the cocoa butter to melt in a water bath, stirring constantly from the beginning of the melting process.
3. Raise the temperature of the mixture to 45 degrees (be sure to monitor the temperature). By this time, all the chocolate should be melted.
4. Add almost all of the previously set aside chocolate to the melted mixture (leave about a quarter).
5. Stir the mixture with the chocolate until all the chocolate melts and the temperature of the mixture reaches 27 degrees. This is a mandatory condition! After this, we need to place the chocolate back on the water bath and raise its temperature to 32 degrees.
6. After this, we can start working with the chocolate. Prepare a pastry bag for the mixture in advance.
7. Fill the bag with the mixture.
8. Cut a hole at the tip.
9. Completely fill the hole of the mold.
10. And now we will carefully turn the mold upside down and hold it parallel to the table to allow excess chocolate to pour out.
11. This way we have formed a shell for the candies.
12. Using a pastry spatula, remove all excess chocolate and place the mold in the refrigerator to harden the chocolate. The chocolate that poured out of the mold will be collected and used for forming the bottom.
13. In the meantime, let's prepare the filling. Place the dried apricots and prunes in a blender and puree them.
14. Add a spoonful of peanut butter and a spoonful of melted chocolate. Mix well again. The filling is ready.
15. Wait for the shells of our candies to harden, then place a nut in each one.
16. Next, fill the mold with the prepared filling, stopping just below the top.
- 17. With the chocolate that leaked from the mold, repeat all the procedures we did earlier: heat to 45 degrees, then add the reserved chocolate, knead well until the temperature drops to 27 degrees, then heat to 32 degrees. This chocolate will again be placed in the bag to close our candies in the molds. Remove excess chocolate with a spatula and place the mold in the refrigerator to harden.
18. The next day (or maybe earlier) you can remove the candies from the mold.
- 19. Place them in special wrappers, pack them in a beautiful box, and the wonderful gift, handmade, is ready.
