I’d like to share with you a tried and tested dessert/gift recipe that I make every year for Christmas:
Ingredients:
- 2 x 25 dkg frozen sweetened chestnut puree
- 3 tbsp powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 packet vanilla sugar
- 2 tbsp rum flavouring
- 4-5 tbsp minced biscuits
- dark chocolate (about 1-1,5 bars)
- decorating sugar
Preparation:
Mix the ingredients well, except for the dark chocolate and decorating sugar, then form into small balls.
Melt the chocolate over a steam and dip in it the chestnut balls to coat them all over. Drain off the excess chocolate.
Place them on a tray or metal rack and sprinkle with decorative sugar (or whatever you like) before the chocolate sets.
If you want to make it even more Christmassy, grate some orange zest into the mixture. In this case, it is important to use only organic, untreated peeled oranges that are suitable for human consumption!
Dieters can reduce the sugar content of the bonbon by using sugar-free chestnut puree and adding liquid sweetener. You can also buy a sugar-free version of minced biscuits and use diabetic chocolate for the coating.