Holiday Chocolate Candy
- 1 cup sugar
- 11/16 cup hazelnuts
- 5/8 cup dark chocolate
- 7 ounces chocolate with hazelnuts
- cocoa powder
- 2/3 cup almond paste
- 3 1/2 ounces chocolate with hazelnuts
- 5/8 cup milk chocolate or dark
- 1 1/8 cups almond paste
- 9/16 cup white chocolate
- 1 orange
- candied orange peel
- milk chocolate or Dark
- Heat the sugar in a saucepan over medium heat until it melts and becomes a light caramel.
- Add hazelnuts and stir quickly with a wooden spoon.
- Spread the caramelized hazelnuts on a parchment paper and let cool.
- When cool, cover with a second sheet of parchment paper and roll with the rolling pin over pressing to break into pieces.
- In a saucepan over low heat, melt the dark chocolate and hazelnut chocolate.
- Stir to smooth.
- When melted, add the hazelnut brittle pieces.
- Pour this mixture onto a parchment paper, spread to form a 1.5 cm layer.
- Allow to harden for 2 hours.
- Cut irregular pieces with a knife and roll them in the cocoa powder.
- Keep cool and take them out 5 minutes before serving.
- Cut the hazelnut chocolate bar into small sticks 0.5 cm thick and 1 cm long.
- Roll out the almond paste using icing sugar to make an rectangle 0.5 cm thick.
- Cut strips 0.5 cm but 4 cm long.
- Take a piece of chocolate and wrap it with a piece of almond paste.
- Then make a ball rolling it in your hand. Set them aside.
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave and dip each ball in chocolate.
- Allow to harden by placing them on a sheet of parchment paper
- Melt the white chocolate, mix it with the almond paste and zest of an orange.
- Shape this mixture into small balls.
- Let harden one hour in the freezer.
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave, dip the balls of marzipan.
- Top each ball with a piece of candied orange.
- Allow to harden on a sheet of parchment paper.
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Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Holiday-Chocolate-Candy-782473 (may not work)