Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes eBook

Print

Word

PDF

then with heavy paper. The fondant may be used the next day, but is in better condition after several days, and may be kept almost indefinitely, if the cloth covering it be wrung out of cold water and replaced once in five or six days. Fondant may be used, white or delicately colored with vegetable color-pastes or with chocolate, as frosting for small cakes, or eclairs or for making candy “centers,” to be coated with chocolate or with some of the same fondant tinted and flavored appropriately.

ALMOND CHOCOLATE CREAMS

CENTERS

1/4 a cup of blanched almonds, chopped fine, 1/2 a cup of fondant, 1/4 a teaspoonful of vanilla, Confectioner’s sugar for kneading and shaping.

CHOCOLATE COATING

About 1 cup of fondant, 2 squares of Baker’s Chocolate, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract, Few drops of water, as needed, Halves of blanched almonds.

Mix the chopped almonds with the fondant and vanilla; add confectioner’s sugar, a little at a time, and knead the mass thoroughly, on a marble or large platter; shape into a long roll, then cut into small pieces of the same size. Shape these into balls a generous half inch in diameter and leave them about an hour to harden on the outside. Put the fondant for the coating and the chocolate (shaved or broken in pieces) in a double boiler (with hot water in the lower receptacle); add the vanilla and the water and heat until melted; take out the spoon and put in a dipping fork (a wire fork costing about ten cents) beat the fondant, to keep it from crusting and drop in a “center;” with the fork cover it with fondant; put the fork under it and lift it out, scrape the fork lightly on the edge of the dish, to remove superfluous candy, turn the fork over and drop the bon-bon onto waxed paper. Make a design with the fork in taking it from the candy. At once press half of a blanched almond on the top of the candy, or the design made with the fork will suffice. If at any time the coating be too thick, add a few drops of water. If any be left over, use it to coat whole nuts or cherries.

[Illustration: ALMOND AND CHERRY CHOCOLATE CREAMS.]