In a hurry and looking for an easy Easter treat? I’ve paired up with Epicerie Food2go to bring you Take 5! Easy recipes that only require 5 ingredients – quick to prepare and with lots of Luxembourgish ingredients.
This month I’m making some super cute chocolate Easter nests with croquant – they are easy to prepare with a big wow factor.
And the best is, you only need to buy 5 ingredients for this Easer treat! High five!
30g butter
70g sugar
100g almonds
a pinch of salt
30g candied ginger
200g chocolate (dark or milk)
To decorate:
27 peanut MnMs
Makes 9
Lay out a piece of baking paper on a baking tray.
Melt the butter in a frying pan and add the almonds, sugar and a pinch of salt. Fry on a medium heat, stirring constantly, until the sugar has melted and the almonds are golden – this takes about 4 minutes.
Put the nuts on the baking paper and spread them as much as you can to separate them. Leave to cool completely.
Once cool, break up the candied almonds then chop so you get bitesized morsels. Transfer in a bowl.
Finely chop the candied ginger and add to the bowl with the candied almonds.
Melt the chocolate in a saucepan over a bain marie. Pour the melted chocolate in the bowl with the almonds and mix well so all the almonds are covered in chocolate.
Lay out 9 cupcake cases in a muffin tin. Put little mounts of chocolate almonds into each cupcake case, sticking 3 MnMs in the middle of each.
Put the chocolate nests in the fridge so they can set for about an hour.
Once set, remove the nests from the baking paper and store in an airtight container in the fridge for a week.
