It is difficult to imagine a person who at least once in his life has not tasted sweets. Of course, this is not the main food, you can do without it. But sweets have a different purpose: dessert can enhance mood, can give pleasure only from its use.
World of sweets
The use of sweets has long been considered a special tradition, the completion of the main meal or an independent snack, the whole charm of which was to savor, leisurely eat and enjoy the taste of dessert.
The world of sweets is great. These are various types of sweets, candy, marshmallows, jellies, cakes and pastries, sorbets and halva. Sweets always accompany us. There are traditional, characteristic of this or that people, and there are treats that were preparing for any holiday. There are goodies that you can eat for dessert every day. Among these sweets are glazed fruits. They can be used as an independent dish or as a decoration for cakes, pastries, sweet cakes.
Glazed fruits
This insanely tasty treat is loved by both adults and children. It is prepared from well-ripened, but not overripe fruits. The recipe is simple, and the dessert turns out to be useful, since it contains many vitamins.
Large fruits must be peeled from the core and peel and put in porcelain dishes with a lid. Separately, prepare the syrup: 500 grams of sugar pour 0.5 liters of water, heat until completely dissolved. Then fill the fruit with the hot syrup prepared in this way, cover with a lid and leave for a day. After filtering the fruit through a sieve. Boil the syrup again until thickened and again pour the fruit into it. Leave again for a day.
We repeat this procedure until the syrup has completely evaporated. As a rule, it takes 8-10 days, and the glazed fruits are ready. We dry them well and put them in glass jars.
A little trick: to give the fruit an attractive appearance, you can add gelatin to the syrup (two grams per hundred grams of fruit).
Recipes
Glazed fruit for the cake can be prepared according to the following recipe. For its implementation we will need: apples, pears, quince (two pieces each), plums, apricots, peaches (four pieces each), water (one liter), icing sugar (one kilogram).
We make syrup from water and powder. We clean the fruits, cut large ones into slices, pierce with a needle to better soak. Fill with hot syrup, leave for a day. Then we merge, boil until thick and pour fruit again. Leave for 5-7 days until the syrup is completely evaporated. We put the fruits on paper, dry them well and put them in a cardboard box.
Such glazed fruits are stored for a very long time. They will be a wonderful decoration for the cake.
You can pleasantly surprise guests with a delicious and beautiful dessert. It can be a cake, the unusual beauty of which is given by glazed fruits (the recipe with the photo was given above).
It’s easy to make such a cake. First, prepare shortcrust pastry according to any recipe. Put the biscuit on the bottom of the form. Then we’ll make the filling: beat the butter with powdered sugar, add the eggs, almonds, flour, chocolate, vanilla. Put on the cake and put in the oven. Baked cake with the filling left to decorate with glazed fruits, which can be prepared according to one of the recipes mentioned above.
Enjoy your meal!