What is the advantage of homemade sweets?
Perhaps someone will say the cost. But in fact, when comparing the price of ingredients and purchased goodies, it is clear that the benefit is not always great.
But then you know exactly what's inside! And you can easily cook healthy goodies.
And here you can spy on a selection of interesting candy recipes at home.
Sweets at home - general principles of preparation
In fact, making homemade sweets is very simple. The ingredients are crushed, mixed and shaped to the desired size and shape. In some formulations, it is necessary to cook the icing, whip the cream, and fry the nuts. Which is also easy.
Which products are mainly used:
• chocolate, cocoa;
• dried fruits and nuts;
• honey, sugar;
• cookies, waffles;
• coconut flakes;
• milk products;
• butter.
Dried fruit sweets are the most useful and do not harm the figure. Well, of course, if used within reasonable limits. And chocolate sweets with cookies, waffles and other sweets are very tasty. But, when compared with factory analogues, they can also be considered extremely useful.
The recipe for sweets at home from dried fruits
A variant of the most useful and simple recipe for sweets at home, with which you can satisfy your sweet passion. Dried apricots. If you want a sweeter taste, you can take more prunes or add part of the raisins.
Ingredients
• 2 glasses of dried apricots;
• 1 cup of prunes;
• 1 cup walnuts;
• 80 grams of chocolate;
• 30 grams of oil;
• 2-4 tablespoons of honey.
Cooking
1. All dried fruits must be washed well and dried. Can be laid out on napkins and left for a while.
2. Dry the nuts in a pan, then crumble. The size of the pieces to your taste. You can grind into powder.
3. Pass the dried fruits through a meat grinder, add nuts to them and adjust the consistency with honey. It should get a thick mass.
4. Sculpt balls the size of a quail egg.
5. Crush the chocolate, melt with the addition of butter.
6. And pour glaze on the sweets from above. You can cover it completely, but in this case you will need more chocolate.
7. We store home-made delicacy in the refrigerator, they calmly lie for 3-4 days.
Candy recipe at home "Squirrel"
Home analogue of the popular Squirrel candies. The delicacy is prepared with walnuts, but you can experiment and take any others. Deliciously obtained with the addition of a small amount of fried sesame seeds. You will also need waffle hemispheres, which you can buy at a pastry shop. Although you can always make the mass thicker and just roll the balls.
Ingredients
• 100 ml cream;
• 1 cup walnuts;
• 200 grams of oil;
• 100 grams of chocolate;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 40 grams of waffle hemispheres.
Cooking
1. We leave the oil warm for an hour, then beat until splendid with sugar. To speed up the process, you can use powder.
2. Add half the fried and grated nuts.
3. Put pieces of chocolate in a bowl, add cream and drown in a water bath.
4. Mix the chocolate with cream, set aside a third. The rest of the mass is filled with hemispheres or just katam balls. But in this case, part of the cream can not be put off.
5. If hemispheres were used, then coat them with the remainder of the cream.
6. Roll the sweets in the shelved nuts and remove them to set in a cool place.
Cookies at home cookie recipe
A budget option for a candy recipe at home. Sweetness resembles the popular cake "Potato" and is prepared according to a similar principle. We take any friable, not soft cookies.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of cookies;
• 30 grams of coconut flakes;
• 0.2 kg of nuts;
• 20 pieces of dried apricots;
• near a can of condensed milk.
Cooking
1. Grind cookies and nuts in any convenient way. It is possible in the combine or through the meat grinder.
2. Add the condensed milk. At this stage, take our time, pour in a little, mix thoroughly. The density of condensed milk and the humidity of cookies are different for everyone, it is important not to pour too much. But if this happened, then add more nuts or cookies.
3. We wash out dried apricots, we dry. Instead, you can use any other filler. For example, prunes, raisins, slices of marmalade, marshmallows.
4. Take a piece of the resulting mass, make a hole, put the filling (in our case, dried apricots) and close the ball.
5. Roll the sweet ball in coconut flakes and you can drink tea! But it is better to give sweets a little lie in the refrigerator.
The recipe for sweets at home from the shock-shock milk mixture
For this candy recipe at home, you will need a baby formula like Baby. A wonderful option for using excess power.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of the mixture;
• 200 grams of powder;
• pack of oil;
• 100 grams of cocoa.
Cooking
1. Beat soft butter with powder. The mass should be homogeneous, white, until fluffy foam can not be whipped.
2. Put the milk mixture, which must be sieved.
3. Add the sifted cocoa as well, mix everything and sculpt the sweets.
4. We make out at our discretion. But since this is Shock-shock, you can roll in cocoa or grated chocolate.
The recipe for sweets at home "Truffeldino"
The recipe for very interesting truffle sweets at home. They will need milk powder. But you can also use baby formula, as in the previous recipe.
Ingredients
• 4.5 cups of milk powder (or mixture);
• 2 glasses of sugar;
• 4 tablespoons of cocoa;
• ¾ cup of liquid milk;
• 60 grams of oil;
• coconut flakes.
Cooking
1. Combine cocoa with sugar and liquid milk, put butter and put on a stove.
2. Cook the mass until all the grains are dissolved.
3. Introduce milk powder or infant formula. But not all. Half a glass will stay for sure. We adjust the density, the mass should turn out for modeling. As soon as it is difficult to mix with a spoon, stop adding milk.
4. Cool for 15 minutes in the refrigerator.
5. We make truffle sweets. To make the process easier, we wet our hands with cold water.
6. Bone the product in the remaining mixture and put it in the refrigerator so that they "grabbed".
Recipe for sweets at home "Raffaello"
But this recipe will certainly help save money, since the real sweets of Raffaello are not cheap. Of this number of products will turn out about 16 pieces. Simplified recipe. If you want to cook a treat that is as similar as possible to the original, then see below.
Ingredients
• 16 pieces of almonds;
• 200 grams of condensed milk;
• 25 grams of oil;
• 150 grams of chips;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. We immediately set aside a third of the chips for deboning the finished sweets, and send the rest to a bowl.
2. Add melted butter, then condensed milk. Mix intensively. At first the mass will be a little liquid, but then the chips will swell.
3. Almonds need to be poured with boiling water, and after five minutes peel off. Dry the nuts in a pan.
4. Sculpt Raffaello with a nut inside, roll in the deposited chips.
The recipe for sweets at home "Raffaello" No. 2 (similar to real)
To make almost real Raffaello sweets, you will need mascarpone cheese and waffle hemispheres.
Ingredients
• 150 grams of mascarpone;
• 100 grams of chips;
• 150 grams of chocolate (white);
• 50 ml cream (not less than 20% fat content);
• 50 grams of almond;
• 100 grams of condensed milk;
• 40-50 wafer spheres.
Cooking
1. Combine the mascarpone with condensed milk, whisk with a mixer for five minutes. The mass should become airy.
2. A third of the chocolate is melted in a water bath with 1 tablespoon of cream. Pour into the cream, stir. We clean in the refrigerator for half an hour.
3. Fill the hemispheres for sweets with chilled cream, stick almonds and connect together.
4. Now you need to melt the remaining chocolate and cream.
5. Gently dip the balls into chocolate, roll in coconut flakes and immediately wrap in foil.
6. Immediately send to the freezer so that the wafer sphere does not have time to become limp. In an hour, the Raphaelks will be ready.
Muesli Homemade Candy Recipe
Another option for healthy sweets that are easily and quickly made at home. Cinnamon is added for the flavor, but it can always be ruled out. These sweets are not stored for long, as they contain fresh carrots.
Ingredients
• 20 grams of sunflower seeds;
• 1 spoon of honey;
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• 50 grams of carrots;
• 40 grams of prunes;
• 40 grams of oil;
• 40 grams of raisins;
• 100 grams of oatmeal for cooking without boiling.
Cooking
1. Finely grate carrots.
2. Add chopped prunes and raisins halves.
3. Add oil. In this recipe, you can melt the butter or add vegetable oil.
4. Put the seeds, cereal, honey and mix.
5. Leave the mass to swell the flakes, then form the balls and you're done! They can be rolled in sesame seeds, poppy seeds or coconut flakes.
Sweets at home - useful tips and tricks
• In any homemade candy recipe, you can replace milk powder with baby formula and vice versa. In terms of humidity, these ingredients are almost the same, do not require any changes in the recipe.
• How many sweets do you get? Just add up the amount of ingredients. If too much comes out, then you can always cook half or a small portion by dividing the products proportionally.
• There are a lot of candy recipes. And most of them consist of the same ingredients with slight modifications. And if you have already decided to stain a meat grinder with nuts, a mixer with butter, and a bowl with chocolate, then cook several types of sweets at once, you can just a little bit. And then the sweet table will turn out to be rich and varied.
