Home Made Chocolates for Christmas or New Year's Eve or Valentins Day

Ingredients for about 30 chocolates chocolates:

200 g marzipan

50 g powdered sugar

20 g walnuts, finely grated

200 g whole milk chocolate coating

30 half walnuts

First, we knead some icing sugar the grounded walnuts and marzipan quickly together, so we get a smooth mass.
Take the mass and roll it on a pastry board dusted with powdered sugar (as thick as a thumb)
Take a knife and cut out small circles or cubes.

The chocolate is melted in a water bath or either very, very briefly in the microwave. Now create a Marzipan piece after another on a fork, dip it into the chocolate, let the chocolate drip a bit and set the pieces on the prepared baking sheet. Immediately after this u put half a walnit on it for decoration and then let the finished chocolates dry.

The look especially nice in small paper cases

Ingredients for 30 pieces:

100 g soft soft dried apricots

100 g soft soft prunes

180 g walnuts

about 4 tablespoons rum

125 g bittersweet chocolate

125 g milk chocolate

baking paper

Preparation of chocolates:

We take three plums and three apricots aside.

The rest of the fruits we cut to cubes - separately - very finely and mix them together with 2 tablespoons rum.
Well, now the fruit have to pass through a half hour.

Meanwhile, we set forth the other ingredients:

We grind the walnuts, but not too fine.

Set aside the apricots cut into narrow strips, we cut out the plums in small rings.

Crush the bittersweet and milk chocolate separately - each in a cup.

When the fruits have been long enoth inside the rum mixture, we put 90 g ground nuts inside for each chocolate and knead the mixture.

* Apricot chocolates: *

We make about 15 small cookies out of the apricots mass.

We melt the milk chocolate very briefly in the microwave or better boil it.

Now we dip the cookies with a fork into the chocolate, they just let them shortly drain and put them on the baking paper. As decoration we put a band of apricot on it, then we got our first candy ready.

* Plum chocolates: *

Now we form from the plum mass to about 15 small balls.

Then we melt the bittersweet chocolate in a water bath or very briefly in the microwave.

Now we dip the balls with a fork into the chocolate, let them shortly drain again and put them on the baking paper. For decoration i take a little plump ring which i place on top of the sweets.
Especially nice looking is a small paper cases for decoration too.