pizza in addition to icecream) thence I went low-key when planning dessert for our lunchtime picnic. After flicking through a few cookbooks I establish the perfect things inward the dessert-focused Tempted. This mass was a Christmas gift from Michael's blood brother Matt a few years ago, which made it fifty-fifty to a greater extent than perfect.
I've played roughly amongst the basic fruit-and-nut-chocolate sentiment many times earlier but these recipes, for rum in addition to raisin bagatelles in addition to white chocolate bark, used combinations I wouldn't convey sentiment of myself. Even better, they made role of white chocolate, raisins, currants in addition to shredded kokosnoot left over from our Xmas party dishes.
I was especially pleased to role upward the white chocolate, as Michael in addition to I don't much taste eating it on its own. We did non facial expression the white chocolate bark to live on our favourite of the twenty-four threescore minutes menses but it was the picnic's prom queen. It's sweet, sure, but the apricots were tangy in addition to the roastedness of the macadamias added a piffling depth.
Rum in addition to raisin is an onetime favourite combination of Michael's yet non i I'm fond of. But at that spot nosotros were amongst raisins in addition to fifty-fifty white rum inward the household thence I soaked those raisins, melted some nighttime chocolate, in addition to stirred through some shredded kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts as directed. Yes, pino nuts! I was intrigued and, sadly, disappointed. All the pino nuts roughly seemed a piffling stale in addition to at that spot were also many of them here. If I were to brand this i time to a greater extent than (and I'm pretty certain Michael would similar me to), I'd double the rum in addition to raisins in addition to halve the quantity of pino nuts. I yet believe they've got a 'lil something to contribute.
The rum in addition to raisin bagatelles were supposed to live on shaped into haphazard piffling balls but they pretty ugly to boot, in addition to I decided to mimic the commencement recipe in addition to shape an every bit ugly but much less fiddly canvass of chocolate to interruption into tiles. It mightiness live on prettier, on reflection, if one-half of the pino nuts and/or kokosnoot were reserved for sprinkling on top. No i was also fussed on Christmas day, though - nosotros had a rattling pleasant dyad of hours lazing in addition to grazing inward a nearby park, prioritising relaxation over presentation.
White chocolate bark
(a half-quantity of a recipe inward Tempted: 150 Very Wicked Desserts)
75g macadamia nuts, chopped
125g white chocolate
60g dried apricots, finely chopped
25g currants
Preheat an oven to 180°C. Line a tray amongst baking newspaper in addition to spread the macadamias over it. Roast the nuts until lightly browned, simply 5-6 minutes, in addition to orbit them a dyad of interim shakes for fifty-fifty cooking. Set the nuts aside to cool, reserve the tray in addition to newspaper for the chocolate.
Gently melt the chocolate inward a saucepan, thence stir inward two-thirds of the macadamias, apricots in addition to currants. Pour the mixture onto the lined tray, spreading it to less than 1cm thickness. Sprinkle over the remaining macadamias, apricots in addition to currants, gently pressing them into the chocolate. Refrigerate the chocolate until set, thence interruption it into chunks to serve.
Rum in addition to raisin tiles
(adapted from a recipe inward Tempted: 150 Very Wicked Desserts)
100g raisins (next fourth dimension I'd double this)
1 tablespoon white rum (next fourth dimension I'd double this)
50g shredded coconut
100g pino nuts (next fourth dimension I'd halve this)
400g nighttime chocolate
Stir the rum through the raisins inward a small-scale bowl in addition to operate out them to soak for at to the lowest degree an hour.
Preheat an oven to 150°C. Line a baking tray amongst paper. Spread the kokosnoot over the tray in addition to gently toast it until golden, 5-10 minutes, giving the kokosnoot a dyad of interim shakes for fifty-fifty cooking. Set the kokosnoot aside in addition to role the same method to gently toast the pino nuts.
Gently melt the chocolate inward a saucepan. Drain the raisins in addition to stir them into the chocolate; stir inward the kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts. (Alternatively, reserve one-half of the kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts for a prettier presentation.) Pour the mixture onto the lined tray, spreading it to less than 1cm thickness. If you lot convey reserved kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts, sprinkle them over the chocolate sheet, gently pressing them into the chocolate. Refrigerate the chocolate until set, thence interruption it into chunks to serve.
White chocolate bark
(a half-quantity of a recipe inward Tempted: 150 Very Wicked Desserts)
75g macadamia nuts, chopped
125g white chocolate
60g dried apricots, finely chopped
25g currants
Preheat an oven to 180°C. Line a tray amongst baking newspaper in addition to spread the macadamias over it. Roast the nuts until lightly browned, simply 5-6 minutes, in addition to orbit them a dyad of interim shakes for fifty-fifty cooking. Set the nuts aside to cool, reserve the tray in addition to newspaper for the chocolate.
Gently melt the chocolate inward a saucepan, thence stir inward two-thirds of the macadamias, apricots in addition to currants. Pour the mixture onto the lined tray, spreading it to less than 1cm thickness. Sprinkle over the remaining macadamias, apricots in addition to currants, gently pressing them into the chocolate. Refrigerate the chocolate until set, thence interruption it into chunks to serve.
Rum in addition to raisin tiles
(adapted from a recipe inward Tempted: 150 Very Wicked Desserts)
100g raisins (next fourth dimension I'd double this)
1 tablespoon white rum (next fourth dimension I'd double this)
50g shredded coconut
100g pino nuts (next fourth dimension I'd halve this)
400g nighttime chocolate
Stir the rum through the raisins inward a small-scale bowl in addition to operate out them to soak for at to the lowest degree an hour.
Preheat an oven to 150°C. Line a baking tray amongst paper. Spread the kokosnoot over the tray in addition to gently toast it until golden, 5-10 minutes, giving the kokosnoot a dyad of interim shakes for fifty-fifty cooking. Set the kokosnoot aside in addition to role the same method to gently toast the pino nuts.
Gently melt the chocolate inward a saucepan. Drain the raisins in addition to stir them into the chocolate; stir inward the kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts. (Alternatively, reserve one-half of the kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts for a prettier presentation.) Pour the mixture onto the lined tray, spreading it to less than 1cm thickness. If you lot convey reserved kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts, sprinkle them over the chocolate sheet, gently pressing them into the chocolate. Refrigerate the chocolate until set, thence interruption it into chunks to serve.
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