Regardless of who interprets the name of this French delicacy and how, it is ardently loved by the vast majority of sweet tooth. “Grillage is a solid chocolate candy,” some readers will say. Partly they are right. But experts will correct that this name can only be determined by filling the goodies. “Grillage is a delicious nutty cake,” others will say. It is very sweet and satisfying, it can be either soft or rather hard. And this opinion is also correct.
In fact, roasting is coarse nuts, poured with thick fruit jam or sugar syrup and dried. It is generally accepted to call any dish or confectionery product, which contains nuts and sugar. These include some sweets, cakes and cakes.
Origin and species
Grillage is one of the popular French desserts made from sugar and roasted nuts. With its origins, the dish dates back to the coarsely ground eastern halva. Some sweets from walnut, Soviet, and later Russian-made, are of the same name.
Confectioners roasting, where the presence of crushed nuts is mandatory, is divided into two types:
- Soft, where the presence of boiled fruit is provided.
- Hard in which molten sugar is used.
It is also known that this term is called roasted sweets in which fruit syrup is a binder. The technology of their production is not too complicated.
Candies "Grillage": is it possible to cook at home?
Candy candies are loved by many. They are bought both for everyday tea drinking and for a festive table. The special taste of delicacies is provided by the presence in it of an amazing combination of the taste of chocolate, caramel and roasted nuts. The products of various manufacturers (TM "Skava", "Svitoch", "Red October", Doma, etc.) are distinguished by the uniqueness of the formulation and the quality of the ingredients, the naturalness of which is often questioned by the authors of numerous reviews.
Candies “Grillage in chocolate”, as experienced home-made confectioners assure, are quite easy to make at home yourself. Their advantageous difference from store products ("Squirrels", "Prometheus", "Meteorites") lies precisely in the presence of natural ingredients. A treat prepared at home will be not only delicious, but also healthy.
Cooking at home roasted sweets
One option is home-made chocolate-fried sweets. The article offers a step-by-step recipe for cooking goodies.
As part of this treat, dried apricots, chopped prunes and candied fruits are very interesting. By the way, they can be used not only fruit, but also vegetable ones - from carrots or beets. A small portion of alcohol will add piquancy to the treat. It is best, according to homegrown craftsmen, to add cognac to the roasted sweets. But if they are offered to children, it is better, of course, to do without alcohol.
In the process of cooking, in the microwave or in a water bath, the chocolate is melted. Mistresses share that dark chocolate needs more time to harden than milk. The consistency of finished chocolates with dark chocolate will be tougher than with milk.
So, the ingredients
To prepare the grill you will need:
- 1 cup walnuts;
- 5 pieces of dried apricots;
- 100 g of granulated sugar;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of water;
- 1 dessert spoon of lemon juice.
The icing will be prepared from 170-200 g of dark chocolate. To ensure trouble-free separation of sweets from the plate on which they will be made, use 1-2 tsp. butter.
What devices will be needed?
In the process of making homemade roast sweets, the hostess will have to use:
- a ladle for boiling water;
- a saucer for melting chocolate;
- a tablespoon for stirring the glaze and boiled sugar;
- a dessert spoon to measure the juice squeezed from lemon;
- a ladle for cooking roasting;
- a dish with cold water to wet your hands or a spoon (needed when forming roasted balls of dried apricots, nuts, and boiled sugar);
- toothpicks for pricking roast balls up to 10-15 pieces;
- two plates for placing finished candies.
Cooking
A step-by-step instruction is as follows:
- First you need to chop walnuts into slices. Cut dried apricots into small pieces and mix with nuts.
- Pour sugar, water into the bucket, mix and put on a slow fire.
- The mixture must be boiled until the syrup thickens and its color changes from white to light brown.
- Remove the dishes from the heat, add lemon juice, mix. Juice will prevent hardening of the mixture. Alternatively, in the process of making sweets, honey can be used instead of boiled sugar.
- Pour a mixture of dried apricots and nuts into a sugar and lemon preparation and mix well with a spoon.
- Using a spoon, which should be constantly moistened in cold water, form balls. You can do this directly in your hands, which should also be constantly moistened in cold water.
- Then they stick a toothpick into each ball. It is better to do this with screwing movements - this will prevent the balls from falling apart.
Then you should prepare the base for sweets. To do this, with constant stirring, melt in the water bath a little less than half of all available chocolate. After that, the plate is greased with butter and hot flat rounds of chocolate are applied to it - there should be exactly as many as created roast balls.
Next, melt the remaining chocolate in a water bath. Walnut-sugar-fruit balls are completely glazed. Each candy should be put on a chocolate base, remove toothpicks from all the candies, and cover the places where they were stuck with chocolate. After that, the finished candies are cleaned for half an hour in the refrigerator for solidification.
The remaining melted chocolate with a spoon on a clean plate is applied to some pattern, which will become the decoration provided for serving. A plate with a pattern is also for 30 minutes. cleaned in the refrigerator. After half an hour, sweets and dishes with a pattern are taken out of the refrigerator to be laid out beautifully. If desired, the dish can be decorated with slices of chocolate and half a walnut.
Cake "Grillage"
An unusually tasty, hard, very sweet and satisfying dessert harmoniously combines natural and healthy ingredients for the body: honey, chocolate caramel, walnuts. Cooking a roast cake with a great taste, according to experienced chefs, is not difficult. The process itself will take about seven hours. It takes about half an hour to prepare. The rest of the article proposes a recipe for 12 servings.
Ingredients
Roasted cake is made from the following products:
- 200 g butter;
- 200 ml of honey;
- 4 cups of wheat flour;
- sugar (half a cup);
- 1 tsp soda;
- 5 ml apple cider vinegar;
- two eggs.
Caramel is prepared from the following ingredients:
- cocoa powder (5 tablespoons);
- 400 g butter;
- 8 tablespoons of honey;
- 2 walnuts;
- two glasses of sugar.
How to cook?
First, the dough is made: sugar with eggs is whipped, honey is added, then the mixture is stirred. Put oil in a saucepan and melt it. Pour into egg mixture and stir. Add flour.
Next, knead the dough. Flour may need more than indicated in the recipe. The main thing is to ensure that the dough is not sticky. Then you need to "extinguish" the soda, add it to the dough and mix thoroughly. Divide the dough into 6 balls of equal size. Each ball is laid out on a baking sheet or in a special mold, pre-greased with margarine and sprinkled with flour. Then the balls are rolled into cakes.
Each cake is pierced with a fork, put for 15 minutes in the oven, heated to 180 ° C. Next up is caramel. To do this, chop nuts (should get 2 cups). Melt the butter. Sugar, nuts, cocoa and honey are added to it in turn. Put on fire and cook with constant stirring for about 5-7 minutes.
Next, cakes are greased with finished caramel and the cake is collected, as usual. The top should be lubricated so that the caramel picturesquely drips on the side of the treat. The cake must be allowed to cool and soak for 5-6 hours. The resulting treat will decorate any table and will delight guests gathered for tea.