How to make candy

For tea and candy. One of the favorite delicacies, of course, is known to everyone without exception. Both children and adults have tried hundreds of types of sweets in a wrapper. But all this is a store assortment. But homemade sweets are a rare treat. This is because the cost of products for their manufacture is even higher than the purchase of ready-made sweets. But you know for sure that you are eating a healthy and high-quality product, without emulsifiers and stabilizers.

There are many ways to make candy at home. You can make high-calorie, but very tasty chocolate, sprinkled with plenty of nuts. Others will choose dietary - based on dried fruits.

How to make chocolates

When making chocolate-based candies, do not add too much water, otherwise the excess liquid will prevent the candies from forming. When defrosted, they will melt and become covered with perspiration. It is even worse if the confectionery blank curls up in lumps.

Black and white chocolate does not thicken as much as your favorite milk chocolate. Therefore, it is easier to deal with the first two types. But milk can burn.

According to the classic recipe, you can pour both classic tiles and candies of various shapes. There are very simple tips on how to make chocolates at home. For example, any silicone mold will do, the sweet mass will not stick. Or we cover any rectangular dishes with foil. Often balls are rolled from chocolate, cooling quickly so that they do not lose their shape.

Chocolates "Izyuminka"

Ingredients for chocolates "Zyuminka"

• 4 tbsp. l. milk
• 50 g butter
• 7 art. l. granulated sugar
• 5 st. l. cocoa powder
• a teaspoon of flour
• handful of raisins

How to make chocolates "Izyuminka"

A mixture of milk, sugar and cocoa is heated over low heat. In the process of cooking, put the oil so that the liquid does not burn. Add flour and let thicken.

The easiest way to form a sweet dessert is in a silicone mold. Put the raisins in a cell and fill with a portion of hot chocolate. Cool down until firm. On the table, sweets will melt and become delicious.

Orange peels in chocolate

• Orange
• bitter chocolate
• Cane sugar - 2 tbsp. l.
• Glass of water
• Milk - 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking method

A simpler and more exotic dessert at home is hard to find.

Cut the crusts into slices, boil for a couple of minutes until soft.

We cook the icing in a water bath from melted chocolate, milk and water.

Roll orange straw in sugar grains, dip in hot chocolate and cool.

It is not only delicious, but also beautiful.

Home roasting

• Two bars of chocolate
• Walnuts - a glass
• Sugar - 150 g
• A little lemon juice

We cook the syrup from three ingredients - water, sugar and lemon juice.

We do not crush the nuts, but chop them into small pieces, you can use a knife.

Pour into syrup.

We heat chocolate in any convenient way - in the microwave or on the stove. Let the glazed nuts cool, roll into balls and dip into the glaze. Grillage left to cool and serve with tea.

strawberry caramels

• 100 g strawberries
• 200 g sugar

Lollipops are very easy to prepare, it is difficult to make the right syrup for them.

We heat just a couple of tablespoons of water and caramelize sugar in it. Changes in the sweet mass must be constantly monitored so that it does not burn out. As soon as it thickens and the color becomes golden, we dip the strawberries in sweetness and get homemade sweets in a frozen form.

classic lollipops

The simplest recipe for which only sugar and water are needed. Moreover, the weight is determined by eye. When heated, the mass should thicken. If it doesn't, just add more sand. Pour a little dark brown mass onto a toothpick and lower it into cold water. Cockerel at home is ready.

How to make sugar candy

Sugar candies are the same lollipops. But you can diversify them with any fruit juice. Often housewives drip lemon.

Description of preparation

Boil water and sugar until thick and sunny, pour in a little juice. Lubricate the molds where the sugar candies will solidify with oil, they will not break when removed. By the way, you can store them directly on the table, they will not melt.

Butterscotch

• Butter - 10 g
• Sugar - 540 g
• Milk - 270 g
• Vanillin

We heat milk and sweet sand on the stove. Appetizing brownish tint should appear.
Butter and vanillin are flavor additives, the aroma of which has been familiar to us since childhood. Pour the thick mass into a mold, and then cut into cubes, like "Kis-kiss".

How to make chocolates

• Packet of cocoa powder
• 150 g butter
• 150 ml water
• One third of a glass of milk
• 20 g sugar
• Large heaping spoonful of flour

We need hot water, but not boiling. Melt a piece of butter and rub it with cocoa.

All the ingredients, both mixed and pure, are added to hot water, mix so that there are no lumps.

The dishes in which we form the treat are covered with foil, and pour the brown mixture into it. After a couple of hours, the chocolate bar will harden in the freezer, and then divide it into sweets.

bird's milk

Ingredients

• 200 g chocolate
• 180 g sugar
• A pack of gelatin
• 150 g condensed milk
• 150 g butter
• 3 egg whites
• Citric acid and vanilla

We turn the protein mass with a mixer into a thick foam along with lemon powder.

Separately, melt the gelatin with sugar over low heat.

In the third bowl, grind the condensed milk and the butter piece.

Once the gelatin part has cooled, combine all the ingredients.

Cream tender soufflé set to cool.

The last step is the most delicious. Let's melt the chocolate bar and fill the soft center of "Bird's milk" from all sides.

Recipes for homemade cocoa chocolates

It is impossible to list all the known recipes for sweets with cocoa. The most popular are dried apricots, prunes, raisins in chocolate, "Squirrel" based on nuts, grilled and truffles. You can put whatever you like as a filling. And chocolate icing is made in the usual way - from melted chocolate or cocoa with milk.

Chocolates with nuts

• Dark chocolate bar
• A piece of butter
• teaspoon of cinnamon
• Hazelnut or almond kernels
• Cocoa powder for sprinkling

We heat the chocolate bar with butter in a water bath, but do not allow liquid to get into the mass.

Let the frosting cool slightly and divide into two servings. In one we will have cinnamon, in the other - cocoa.

We roll the nuts into the fragrant mixture by hand. We give the shape of an oval. Sprinkle the top with cocoa powder.

Chocolates "Truffle"

• Bitter chocolate - 250 g
• Glass of cream
• Butter - 50 g
• Cocoa

Cooking Truffles

In the heated cream, put in small pieces of cocoa product, dissolve until smooth. We remove to cool when the mass has already thickened. For taste, we throw an oil piece.

For several hours, the workpiece should stand in the cold. After that, we roll balls out of it, roll in cocoa powder and serve.

Homemade sweets are good not only for tea. Feel the taste of natural delicacy with champagne, for example. Surprise your guests on New Year's Eve.