Chocolate Figures for Christmas


Recipe summary
Chocolate Figures for Christmas from Dessertliebe is structured into a clear recipe card with 12 ingredients and 11 step-by-step instructions. It includes sugar, cocoa powder, milk and butter. Tags: vegetarian. ChefScribe turns the original cooking source into a recipe that is easier to follow, save and print.
Ingredients
- 120 g sugar
- 30 g cocoa powder
- 200 ml milk
- 70 g butter
- 1 piece mandarin (zest & juice)
- 300 g butter cookies
- 40 g cashew nuts or other nuts
- 100 g dark chocolate (for the coating)
- 100 g milk chocolate (for the coating)
- 10 ml vegetable oil (neutral)
- 100 g white chocolate (for details)
- Green & red food coloring (fat-soluble) (for decoration)
Method
- 1
Mix sugar and cocoa powder in a pot.
- 2
Add milk and bring to a boil.
- 3
Add butter to the mixture and let it melt.
- 4
Add mandarin zest and the juice of one mandarin.
- 5
Crush butter cookies and add to the mixture.
- 6
Add cashew nuts and mix everything well.
- 7
Transfer the mixture into molds and chill for a few hours.
- 8
Melt dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and vegetable oil together.
- 9
Pour the melted chocolate over the chilled figures.
- 10
Add details with white chocolate and color.
- 11
Finish and enjoy.
