DessertWinter
No-cook chocolate walnut honey szaloncukor
Szaloncukor are the wrapped sweets Hungarians hang on the Christmas tree. These have a walnut-biscuit honey filling dipped in dark chocolate – no cooking, and lovely as a gift.
- Prep:
- 40 min
- Baking/cooking:
- 5 min
- Serves:
- about 30 pieces
The honey we recommend for this recipe: Honey with walnuts
The walnut pieces are already in the honey, so the filling is crunchier and nuttier, and since the honey isn't heated, it keeps its flavour. You'll need about 80 g of honey.
For a different flavour: Wildflower honey – makes a fuller, more characterful filling – add 20 g more walnuts.
Ingredients
- 80 ghoney (about 4 tbsp)(Honey with walnuts)
- 150 gground walnuts
- 100 gplain tea biscuits (such as Rich Tea or háztartási keksz), finely crushed
- 30 gsoft butter
- 1 tbspcocoa powder
- 1 pinchcinnamon
- 1 tbsporange juice or rum
- 200 gdark chocolate
- 1 tspvegetable oil or coconut oil
- 30szaloncukor wrappers (or squares of foil and tissue paper)
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Method
- 1
Mix the ground walnuts, crushed biscuits, cocoa and cinnamon.
- 2
Add the honey, soft butter and orange juice, and knead into a firm mixture that holds its shape. If it's too soft, add a little more biscuit.
- 3
Shape into small logs about 3 cm long and chill them for 30 minutes.
- 4
Melt the chocolate with the oil over a pan of simmering water, dip the logs in it and leave them to set on baking paper.
- 5
Once the chocolate has set, wrap them in the wrappers.
In our guides: Gifts from beeswax: homemade candles and beeswax wraps
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