Chocolate Coated Marzipan Sweets Recipe
Homemade sweets to give to visitors, as gifts or presents or just for you to eat because you can
Ingredients
| 350g/12oz | Ground almonds, delumped using your fingers |
| 175g/6oz | Icing sugar, sieved |
| 175g/6oz | Caster sugar |
| 1½tsp | Lemon juice |
| ¼tsp | Steenbergs natural almond extract |
| 1 | Free range egg, lightly beaten |
| 300g | of organic dark chocolate |
Method
- Put the ground almonds and sugars together in a mixing bowl, then make a hole in the centre. Add the lemon juice, natural almond extract and beaten eggs into the hole. Mix it all together – I use my hands for this, massaging it all together into a smooth paste. When it has all mixed into a ball, put it onto a lightly iced board.
- Roll small amounts into smooth balls; it’s probably about 1tsp for each ball, but you just need to break it off the main ball with the tips of your fingers.
- Melt two 150g bars of dark Green & Black’s chocolate or Divine's dark chocolate in a bowl over a pan of boiling water. Then dip the balls into the melted chocolate and using a toothpick scooped them out and left them to dry on some baking parchment.
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