Orange chocolate marzipans

Orange chocolate marzipans

An ideal home-made gift. This recipe for orange chocolate marzipans, wrapped up with out Winter bark, will win hearts this Christmas.

Orange chocolate marzipans

  • Serves icon for lots of people
  • Time icon Takes 35 minutes to make, 5 minutes to cook, plus chilling

An ideal home-made gift. This recipe for orange chocolate marzipans, wrapped up with out Winter bark, will win hearts this Christmas.

Nutrition: per serving

Calories
91 kcals
Fat
5g (1.7g saturated)
Protein
1.4g
Carbohydrates
10.5g (9.8g sugar)
Salt
trace

Per chocolate:

Ingredients

  • 115g ground almonds
  • 55g golden caster sugar
  • 55g icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
  • 1 medium free-range egg yolk
  • Grated zest of 1 orange
  • 2-3 tsp Armagnac or brandy
  • 250g orange-flavoured dark chocolate (we like Green & Black’s Organic Maya Gold, from major supermarkets)
  • Candied orange peel (we like Sundora candied peel, from Sainsbury’s), thinly sliced, to decorate
  • Chocolate coffee beans (from delis and chocolate shops), to decorate
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Method

  1. Whizz the almonds, caster and icing sugar, egg yolk, orange zest and Armagnac in a food processor until it forms a paste (add a little more Armagnac if it seems crumbly). Wrap in cling film and place in the freezer for 10 minutes to chill.
  2. Roll out on a surface dusted with icing sugar until 2cm thick, then stamp out rounds with a 3.5cm round fluted cutter. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and chill until needed. Put the chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water, stirring, until melted. Remove and leave to cool a little.
  3. Lightly press marzipan rounds on the prongs of a fork and lower into the chocolate. Lift out and put on a wire rack until any excess chocolate has dripped off, then return to the lined baking sheet. When almost set, top with candied peel or a chocolate coffee bean. Leave to set fully.

Nutrition

Per chocolate:

Nutrition: per serving
Calories
91 kcals
Fat
5g (1.7g saturated)
Protein
1.4g
Carbohydrates
10.5g (9.8g sugar)
Salt
trace

delicious. tips

  1. These chocolates will keep, covered and refrigerated, for up to 2 weeks.

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