If you can not live a day without sweet. If the mere thought of refusing a favorite delicacy throws you into a shiver, and the summer is just around the corner, and you will have to open up to the world all that has been hidden by numerous layers of clothing. If it seems that it is impossible to resolve the eternal contradiction between the wardrobe and the fridge. Then you have nothing to do but cook candy from dried fruits. These homemade sweets will destroy the established axiom that delicious can not be useful.
Dried fruits contain so many vitamins and minerals that it's easy to replace special complexes in tablets. This is especially true in the spring, and if you are also a happy mother, then all the year round. Since childhood, teach your children to useful sweets, but do not get too carried away - such candies can not be called low-calorie.
Homemade sweets from dried fruits
Ingredients:
- dried apricots - 200 g;
- prunes - 200 g;
- raisins - 200 g;
- walnuts - 200 g;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- honey - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- chocolate - 3 tiles.
Preparation
Dried fruits are well washed in hot water. We let it dry and let it pass through the meat grinder along with the nuts. You can grind in a blender, but do not get too carried away - pieces of nuts should still be guessed. Add to the resulting mass of juice of one lemon and honey. We mix everything thoroughly. We try for sweetness, if necessary, we introduce a little more honey. If sweets are for an adult feast, you can pour a couple of tablespoons of your favorite liquor or cognac. We roll small balls or fill special shapes in the form of hearts, flowers, etc. We send it for 3 hours to the freezer. After, we take out our billets and dip them into melted chocolate in a water bath. We put it on the grill to make the glass superfluous, and again we send it to the refrigerator, but not for long. In half an hour you can have a tea party with delicious homemade sweets.
Multicolored sweets from dried fruits
Ingredients:
- Peaches dried - 100 g;
- cherry, dried - 100 g;
- raisins - 100 g;
- honey - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- almonds - 30 g;
- cashew nuts - 30 g;
- walnuts - 30 g;
- lemon peel - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- sesame - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- coconut chips - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- confectionery powder - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Washed and dried dried fruits are twisted in a meat grinder along with nuts. Mix with honey and lemon zest. We form candies. One third of them are crumbled in sesame seeds, another third is in coconut shavings, the remaining ones are in confectionery powder. So from one basis you get completely different candy. We put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours so that they "grab".
Curd sweets from dried fruits - recipe
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- dried apricots - 100 g;
- coconut chips - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- chocolate bitter - 1/3 of the tile.
Preparation
Cottage cheese twice wipe through a sieve. Happy owners of a blender can also use it to bring the curd to a homogeneous state. Dried apricots well washed and dried. On the plate generously pour out the coconut shaving, top with a teaspoon spread a portion of cottage cheese. We give it the shape of a "pancake", put the dried apricots in the center and harden it like a pie. The resulting coloboy is crumbled in coconut shavings. We send the candies for an hour to the refrigerator. After solidification, they can be decorated by pouring a thin stream of melted chocolate. If households do not immediately destroy the whole stock of these useful sweets, candies can be stored for several days in the refrigerator. But it is necessary in a closed container - the cottage cheese absorbs too much foreign odors.
How to make sweets "Truffles" from dried fruits?
Ingredients:
- almonds - 50 g;
- cocoa - 70 g;
- hazelnut - 100 g;
- dates - 200 g.
Preparation
Dates and almonds a couple of hours soaked in cold water. From the dates we remove the bones and twist the meat grinder along with hazelnuts. Add to this mass 2/3 portions of cocoa, a good mix. We try, if desired, sweeten with honey. We roll small sweets, in the middle of each place almonds, after removing the skin from it. Roll out the resulting koloboks in cocoa powder. Ready truffles can be eaten immediately, but it is better to keep them for several hours in the refrigerator.