Recipes: learn to make three sweets with chocolate – 04/21/2023 – Food

With a lot of skill or little in the kitchen, it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t like a dessert that takes chocolate.

See, below, three recipes with ingredients ranging from the traditional carrot cake to the homemade version of the hazelnut cream with chocolate, which is popular at breakfast and as fillings for sweets.

BRIGADEIRO CANDY WITH STRAWBERRY

Difficulty level: Easy
Preparation time: up to half an hour
Performance: 16 units
Benjamin Abrahão bakery recipe

Ingredients

• 2 cans of condensed milk
• 1 box of strawberries
• 200g of butter
• 800g semisweet chocolate

Way of doing

• Cook the condensed milk until it reaches the point of brigadeiro (when you turn the pan, it should be coming away from the bottom)
• Allow to cool in a bowl at room temperature
• Butter your hand so it doesn’t stick and model the dough around the strawberry.
• Melt the chocolate in a water bath and quickly cool on the table for a shock.
• Then, put the chocolate in a bowl and cover each strawberry candy with this syrup.
• Wait to cool down before eating

CARROT CAKE WITH HAZELNUTS AND CHOCOLATE Syrup

Difficulty level: Easy
Preparation time: 1h15
Performance: 12 servings

cake ingredients

• 300 g of carrots
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup (tea) of sugar
• juice of an orange
• 250g finely chopped hazelnuts
• 1 cup wheat flour (tea)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon yeast

Way of doing

• Heat the oven to 180°C
• Peel and grate the carrots as finely as possible and set aside.
• Separate the egg whites and beat the egg yolks with the sugar in a mixer until the mixture is almost white.
• Turn off the mixer and, with a spoon, mix the orange juice, grated carrots, crushed hazelnuts, wheat flour, salt and yeast. Reserve.
• Beat the egg whites until stiff and gently incorporate them into the previous mixture, using a wooden spoon.
• Grease a 24 cm round cake tin with butter.
• Place the dough and take it to the medium oven (180ºC), preheated, for about 45 minutes.
• Let the cake cool and place it upside down on a plate.
• In the meantime, prepare the chocolate sauce

Chocolate syrup

• 200 g of butter
• 200 g chocolate powder
• 2 cups of water (tea)
• 2 cups of sugar (tea)

Way of doing

• In a saucepan, place the butter and chocolate, stirring constantly until the butter melts.
• Remove from heat and add heated water and sugar.
• Mix well and return to the heat, stirring constantly until it reaches the syrup point.
• Take a small portion of the syrup with a spoon and place it on the inner wall of the pan; when the syrup no longer drips, it will be ready.

CHOCOLATE CREAM WITH HAZELNUT

Difficulty: Average
Performance: About 400g
recipe by Juliana Ventura, a journalist trained in gastronomy.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of hazelnuts (tea)
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate (chopped in small pieces)
• 3 tablespoons of corn glucose
• 3 tablespoons of milk
• ½ spoon (coffee) of salt

Way of doing

• Place the hazelnuts on a baking sheet and leave in a hot oven for about five minutes.
• Place them in a cloth and rub to remove as many of the skins as you can.
• Blend the hazelnuts in a food processor until you get a rustic paste consistency.
• Melt chocolate in double boiler
• Add the chocolate and the other ingredients and beat well for about eight minutes until you get a paste consistency.