Home-made chocolates

I bought silicone moulds for chocolates in the French bookshop in Lafayette Berlin. I tried them out today, and they are great!

I made up these 4 fillings, it's pretty difficult to find decent recipes on the internet


For the "body" of the chocolates, I melted 70% chocolate from Lidl over boiling water. Then I covered the moulds with chocolate and put them in the fridge

From left to right: nut liqueur lovelies, vanilla ducats, cherry hearts, nougat-brittle bites

1) Nougat-brittle bites

Melt nougat over boiling water. Add single cream to soften it a bit. Add hazelnut brittle (I don't know the proper English term, it's caramelized hazelnut bits).

2) Cherry hearts

Basic chocolate ganache: Use equal amounts of single cream and milk chocolate. Bring the cream to boil and pour it over the chocolate (broken into bits) in several loads. Stir everything together. Add cherry liqueur to taste.

3) Vanilla ducats

I improvised, mixing single cream, a bit of butter, white chocolate and vanilla essence.

4) Nut liqueur lovelies

Add nut liqueur to the basic ganache above.

I filled the moulds, put them in the fridge to set, and then poured more dark chocolates over them as the bases.

I also made some "Rohkostpralinen", which we used to buy from Confiserie Rottenhöfer in Munich.

I dipped dried figs into chocolate and placed a walnut half on each.

I filled the dried plums with nougat (actually the leftover filling from the chocolates above), placed a hazelnut on the opening and dipped them into chocolates.

I will give them out as presents!