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Dulce De Leche (Caramelized Milk)

Dulce De Leche is a snack or dessert which is originally from South American, but is now served all over the world. Directly translated Dulce De Leche means candy of milk or milk candy. In this recipe the Dulce De Leche is prepared by slowly boiling a can of condensed milk for some hours. When the condensed milk has cooked from some time it starts to thicken and caramelize and after 3 hours of slowly cooking the milk is turned into a very delicious and thick caramelized milk. The consistency of the caramel is very similar to the [Read more...]

Bacon-Wrapped Dates

Categories: Snacks/ Tapas

This recipe for bacon-wrapped dates is just super simple to make. The dates are great as a snack or as a part of your tapas dinner. Tapas is a wide variety of snack or appetizers originally from the Spanish cuisine. We have served these bacon wrapped dates several times for our friends and family each time with great success. [Read more...]

Delicious Scones with Chocolate Pieces

Categories: Bread/ Snacks

Scones with Chocolate

This recipe for scones with chocolate pieces are super easy to make and they taste very delicious. A scone is like a sweet bun or cake and is very popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland and is often served as an afternoon snack or together with tea or coffee. They can be bought in most bakeries and supermarkets. However, because scones are so delicious they are also widely popular in the rest of the world too. [Read more...]

Delicious Date Balls with Licorice

Categories: Desserts/ Nordic Christmas/ Snacks

Homemade Delicious Date Balls with Liquorice

We have to confess - we are in love with candy and especially in the Holiday seasons we eat a lot of it. For many people, the Christmas holidays are associated with delicious, and often fat, food and candy in large amounts. And we are absolutely no excuse! In Denmark the candy are mostly chocolate, wine gum and different cakes. Sometimes all this sugar and calories can be just enough. This recipe for delicious candy balls are based on dates and nuts, and do not contain any sugar at all. They are super simple and easy to make and a great and healthy alternative to the regular candy. We normally role the date balls in licorice powder, cocoa powder or coconut flakes, this gives a great taste to the candy and makes them very decorative. The recipe is kids friendly and it is super fun to roll and decorate your own candy balls. [Read more...]

Danish Peppernuts (Pebernodder)

Categories: Nordic Christmas/ Snacks

Recipe for Homemade Danish Pebernødder (Pepper Nuts)

This is the recipe for the very traditional Danish Pebernodder which is a walnut-sized Christmas cookie in a circular/spherical shape.

In Denmark we call these small cookies pebernodder which directly translated means pepper nuts. These cookies are very popular in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands and are internationally sometimes referred to as pfeffernuesse or simply just peppernuts. In Denmark it's properly one of the most popular and traditional Christmas cookies, even though it is competing with the very delicious Danish Jewish cookie and the Danish brown cookie.

The Pebernodder cookies are served as snacks in the whole month of December and we find that they are highly addictive - once we are started eating these, we can't stop. The origin of this cookie is not entirely known, however it's expected that it's somewhere in Germany or the Netherlands. [Read more...]

Chocolate covered Roasted Almonds

Categories: Nordic Christmas/ Snacks

This is a recipe for the most delicious chocolate covered almonds. They are very easy to make and they are a super snack, especially for Christmas or other special occasions. As said the recipe is very simple, you simple just roast some almonds in the oven for about 10 minutes, dip the in some melted chocolate and finally roll them in cocoa powder. In Denmark, and the Scandinavian countries in general, liquorice is a very popular sweet. We think that liquorice it's a very Nordic thing be course we always have a hard time finding this sweet when we are traveling abroad. Besides rolling these chocolate covered almonds in cocoa we also like to roll them in liquorice powder which gives when a nice and fresh taste. We also like to double dip the almonds in the chocolate so that they get a nice and thick layer of chocolate.

Roasted Almonds with Chocolate and Liquorice

400 g (14 oz)
Preparation time: 60 minutes
Danish title: Ristede mandler med chokolade og lakrids

Ingredients:
200 g (7 oz) almonds
200 g (7 oz) white chocolate (or half white and half milk chocolate)
1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tbsp liquorice powder (optional)

Instructions:
Step 1: Roast the almonds on an oven tray in the oven for about 8-10 minutes at 180 C (360 F).
Step 2: When the almonds are roasted let them cool off a bit.
Step 3: Mix the cocoa and liquorice powder together. If you don't have any liquorice powder you can just use cocoa powder.
Step 4: Melt the chocolate by placing a heat resistant bowl in a sauce pan with water at the bottom. The bowl should float. Chop the chocolate in large pieces and pour it in the bowl. Slowly heat up the water and let it boil lightly. The chocolate will now melt slowly. Be careful not to get any water down in the chocolate melt or it will clump together. If you are using both white and dark chocolate, to decorate your almonds, of course don't melt it at the same time.
Step 5: Pour the almonds into the melted chocolate and mix them around.
Step 6: Use a fork to take up the chocolate covered almonds and place them on a sheet of parchment/baking paper. Let the chocolate solidify.
Step 7. Now put the chocolate covered almonds into the chocolate melt one more time. This will give them a thicker layer of chocolate.
Step 8: Take the almonds up and let them cool off - before the chocolate it completely solidified roll them in the cocoa/liquorice powder. Of course if you don't have liquorice powder, cocoa powder will do it.

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