Best French Candy Recipe: Dark Chocolate Mendiants
A quick and easy recipe for a delicious French candy, dark chocolate mendiants studded with dried fruit and nuts
Ingredients
- 8 oz 60% cacao chocolate (bittersweet)
- 1/2 cup mixed dried fruit and nuts cranberries, cherries, apricots, pecans, almonds, walnuts, pistachios
Instructions
- Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Prepare the nuts and fruit you will be using, chopping each topping into small pieces. You can mix them together to sprinkle over the chocolate or you can keep them separate to create different combinations.
- Chop 8 oz of bittersweet chocolate and place in a microwave safe dish. Heat in increments of 30 seconds, stirring in between, until the chocolate is completely melted. As you approach the end of the melting time and only have small pieces left, melt them by stirring. Do not overheat the chocolate as it can scorch.
- Fill a tablespoon about 3/4 full. Holding the spoon perpendicular to the prepared cookie sheet, allow the chocolate to drop straight onto the parchment paper. You can swirl the spoon slightly to create a perfect circle, although it will generally make a circular shape on its own.
- Immediately top the melted chocolate, creating one completed disk at a time. Work through until all of the chocolate is gone.
- Let the completed mendiants sit out at room temperature until firm, at least four hours (will vary based on temperature and humidity). Be sure they are completely firm before removing them from the parchment.
- Carefully peel the mendiants off of the parchment paper when they are firm.