Chocolate candies with hazelnuts

The best and most delicious gift to your loved one for Valentine's Day! On the Day of St. Valentine in my family it is customary to give sweets, and it is not surprising, because my husband and I have a true sweet tooth (although I am still far from my husband, you can not feed him meat, but there is no way without sweets))) And how nice it is when sweets are prepared by hand. I offer you a recipe for very tasty rich and fragrant candies, they turn out to be moderately sweet and nutty-nutty, by the way, you can choose nuts at your discretion :)
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 11 % 9 g
Fats 51 % 42 g
Carbohydrates 39 % 32 g
544 kcal
GI: 16 / 0 / 84

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    The products we need. Liquor is not necessary at all, add it or not, decide for yourself.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    So, first we need to melt the dark chocolate, I did it in a water bath, but you can also in the microwave, the main thing is not to overheat it.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    As soon as the dark chocolate has melted, add the broken white chocolate and bring the mixture to uniformity.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Grind 30 g of hazelnuts into crumbs.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Add cream, liqueur and chopped hazelnuts to the melted mixture of black and white chocolate. Cream and liqueur should be at room temperature.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Mix everything well and send it to the refrigerator until it hardens (about 15-20 minutes).

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    We set aside 20 pieces of nuts from the remaining hazelnuts, they will go inside the candies, and chop the rest with a knife into crumbs. We form balls from the cooled chocolate mass, hide a nut inside each candy, roll it into a bun and roll it in crushed nuts.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    I got 15 medium-sized candies. In general, you can leave the sweets like that, they are already very tasty, but I still decided to cover some of them with chocolate.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    To do this, melt the milk chocolate, let it cool down a little. We cover our candies with chocolate. Ready-made sweets are sent to the refrigerator for 15 minutes to freeze the chocolate.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Such candies will serve as a wonderful gift, put the candies in a box and give them to a loved one. Bon appetit!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Buttermilk - 36   kcal/100g
  • Cream of 20% fat content - 300   kcal/100g
  • Cream of 10% fat content - 120   kcal/100g
  • Cream - 300   kcal/100g
  • Hazelnuts - 670   kcal/100g
  • Cherry liqueur - 299   kcal/100g
  • Baileys Liqueur - 327   kcal/100g
  • Liquor - 327   kcal/100g
  • Chocolate 70 % - 539   kcal/100g
  • Dark chocolate - 539   kcal/100g
  • Milk chocolate - 550   kcal/100g
  • White chocolate - 554   kcal/100g

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