Oh, these children are little gourmets! Can a child be denied sweets when he looks with pleading eyes, like a cat from the cartoon Shrek? However, not all sweets bought in the store meet the quality requirements. And here, sweets made by mother’s caring hands are both tasty and healthy.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- - dates 12 pcs.
- - 300 g of almonds (walnuts, or hazelnuts)
- - 100 g of powdered sugar
- - 1 tbsp. l orange juice
- - orange sugar (or zest)
- - a bar of dark chocolate
- - 200 g dried pineapple
- - 100 g dried apricots
- - 250 ml of liquid honey in light shades
- - coconut flakes
Instruction manual
1
Sweets from dates. Wash the dates and peel them through a neat cut in the bottom. Grind nuts to a crumb state, mix them with icing sugar, orange sugar and juice. Start dates with the mixture. Melt the chocolate in a water bath and pour the dates with a pastry bag or syringe.
2
Option is the opposite. Top the dates with grated chocolate and crushed shortbread cookies. Dip in honey and roll in nut crumbs or coconut.
3
Fruit balls. Pour the pineapple and dried apricots with hot water and leave for a couple of minutes to soften them. Cut dried fruit into small pieces or chop in a blender. Pour almonds or hazelnuts with boiling water, and if possible remove the skin from them. Grind nuts into crumbs, mix with dried fruits and honey. Roll the balls from the mixture (hands should be gloves on) and roll them in chocolate chips, coconut flakes or grated cookies.
4
For beauty, buy paper baskets and place sweets on them. If you want to present sweets as a gift, you can use an old candy box or a piece of foil tied up with a beautiful ribbon as a package.
note
Dates are rich in tryptophan - an amino acid involved in the production of the so-called "hormone of happiness." However, you often should not indulge in such a delicacy - the dates are very high in calories.
Useful advice
If there is no pastry bag, a sheet of waxed paper will do. Make from it something like a bag for seeds, fill in the necessary mixture (the same chocolate), cut the corner from the bottom and gradually squeeze. Having adapted, you can learn to make various drawings.