When calculating the financial benefits of making chocolates at home, it's easy to see that it isn't all that great. The main plus is that the hostess knows exactly their content and can give them to the child without fear. Convenience is that the ingredients are easy to replace with others. If a child has an undesirable reaction to a single component of a favorite treat, you can cook it at home, excluding or replacing what the baby cannot.
Homemade sweets are easy to make. All components are crushed, mixed and formed into pieces of the desired shape from the mass. Sometimes it will be necessary to boil the glaze and dry the nuts in a pan. The most useful are dried fruit sweets. Delicious products with waffles, cookies, other sweets.
Recipe number 1 - dried fruit sweets
Prepare 2 cups of dried apricots, a glass of prunes and walnuts, 30 g of butter, 80 g of chocolate, 3 tablespoons of honey. The taste will be sweet and sour. If you like sweets more, the amount of dried apricots should be reduced, and the amount of raisins should be increased. Dried fruits must be pitted.
Dry the nuts in a pan and chop. Wash and dry dried fruits, mince. Mix with nuts, bring to the desired density with the help of honey. Make small balls from the resulting mass.
Chop the chocolate and melt by adding butter. Pour sweets with this icing. You can eat it right away or put it in the refrigerator. Store for 3-4 days.
Recipe number 2 - sweets "Belochka"
You will need 100 ml of cream, the same amount of chocolate, 200 g of butter, a glass of nuts, preferably walnuts, a glass of sugar. You can buy wafer hemispheres in confectionery stores - they will need 40 g.
Soften the butter and grind with sugar. Add nuts, toasted and chopped. Melt the chocolate in a water bath with the addition of cream, then mix with butter cream and separate a third. Fill the hemisphere with the mass, and spread the rest of the cream on top. If they are not there, just make balls of candy mass, roll in nuts and put in the cold until they solidify.
Recipe number 3 - homemade candy from cookies
You will need a pound of cookies, 200 g of nuts, a can of condensed milk, 30 g of coconut, 20 pieces of dried apricots.
Grind nuts and cookies until crumbs. Add condensed milk until a thick sour cream consistency is obtained. Wash and dry dried apricots. You can replace it with pieces of marshmallow, marmalade, and other dried fruits. Take a piece of the prepared mass, make a hole in it and place the filling there. Close the hole and roll the resulting ball in the coconut. Then place in the refrigerator until set.
