Make your own Christmas sweets
Crispy cornflakes - dipped in chocolate
Chocolate-soaked cornflakes with a little crunch. A quick and easy Christmas sweet to make, which everyone will love. Because what could go wrong when you make chocolate-flavoured sweets?
Ingredients
- 2 dl sugar
- 4 tablespoons cocoa
- 200 g butter
- 100 g chocolate (choose your own favourite)
- 1 dl syrup
- 8 dl cornflakes
This is what you do
- Heat the sugar, cocoa, butter, chocolate and syrup in a saucepan. Let it simmer for 3-4 minutes.
- Pour in the cornflakes. Mix gently so that they don’t break up.
- Put the mixture into small paper muffin cups.
- Put into the fridge and let them cool for a few hours.
Butterscotch - a Christmas favourite
Here is a real Christmas classic - butterscotch! This is a favourite with many and in Sweden there is hardly any Christmas sweet that screams Christmas more than butterscotch! Bon appetit!
Ingredients for 75 sweets
- 2 dl whipping cream
- 2 dl light syrup
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 dl caster sugar
- 1 dl blanched, chopped almonds
This is what you do
- Mix the whipped cream, syrup and sugar in a saucepan.
- Stir occasionally for about 20-35 minutes. The mix is ready when it passes the ball test or has reached a temperature of 124°. You do the ball test with a glass of cold water. Take a little of the mix on a spoon and drop it in the water. Pick it up with your fingers. If the mix is ready, it should be able to be shaped into a ball and have the consistency you want.
- Add almonds and butter
- Distribute the mix into small ‘knäck’ moulds.
- Put into the fridge and allow to set.
Chocolate cups with crushed nuts - quick and easy
Make the Christmas chocolate cups that are so popular with Swedes - and melt in your mouth. Top them with some almonds and voila, the perfect Christmas sweets!
Ingredients for about 50 sweets
- 200 g chocolate - choose for yourself if you want dark, light or white
- 150 g coconut fat
- 5 dl almonds
- 5 teaspoon flake salt
- Small aluminium moulds
This is what you do
- Break up the chocolate into a metal bowl. Place the bowl over a saucepan of boiling water. Stir and let the chocolate melt.
- Stir in the coconut fat and let it dissolve.
- Finely chop the almonds and quickly toast it in the frying pan with a little butter and flake salt.
- Pour the chocolate into the aluminium moulds.
- Sprinkle with the crushed nuts
- Put into the fridge and allow to set.
Now we hope you have found inspiration to spend a free day, or evening, in the kitchen and cook your own Christmas sweets. Take the chance to spend time with someone you like, because Christmas baking is more fun if you do it together!
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