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Cooking for children: natural sweets,
made with your own hands
Children are ready to eat sweets always and everywhere. But most of them are hardly healthy food. And yet, your favorite treats can be useful if they are natural sweets made with your own hands.
The most delicious chocolate
To get to the chocolate factory, like the Dragon from the Soviet cartoon, is the cherished dream of many kids. Although real chocolate can be made at home. We will need 60 g of grated cocoa. Ready-made cocoa powder for the recipe of natural chocolate will not work — the taste will be too flat. Grated cocoa crumble into pieces, mix with 60 g of cocoa butter and, stirring constantly, dissolve on low heat. Enter 80 g of powdered sugar and, without bringing to a boil, remove from the stove. Cool the chocolate mass, pour it into a wide rectangular shape and put it in the refrigerator. For the most capricious, add berries, nuts or dried fruits to the chocolate bar.
Sweet modeling lessons
Delight is guaranteed to cause sweets made of natural bitter chocolate. Fry 300 g of peanuts in a dry pan. Mix it with 100 g of shortbread cookies and grind it in a blender into crumbs. Combine 2 tablespoons of butter with 4 tablespoons of honey and, without bringing the mass to a boil, pour it over the nuts and cookies. On low heat, melt 250 g of bitter chocolate. With wet hands, we form neat balls from the nut filling, dip them in chocolate and spread them on a dish with foil, after which we send natural sweets for children to the refrigerator for the night. Rest assured, this delicacy will not have time to melt.
Fruit aspic
Fruit jelly is a benefit in its purest form, because it consists of natural ingredients. Put 100 ml of honey in a water bath, add 400 ml of water, 100 g of sugar, a pinch of vanilla and bring the mixture to a boil. We introduce a bag of pre-soaked gelatin and boil the mixture for 2 minutes. Peel and seed 2 pears and cut them into slices. Cut into quarters of 150 g of apricots, large grapes and strawberries. The same amount of melon pulp is cut into cubes. For the recipe of natural jelly, any fruit is good. So feel free to add everything that your children love. We spread the filling on the cremans, pour honey syrup and let it freeze. This treat is ideal for children’s parties. To make the jelly color, instead of water or half with water, you can add your favorite juice.
Favorite plums
Natural marmalade can not help but like the kids. Fill 20 g of gelatin with 100 ml of freshly squeezed plum juice and leave it to swell. Cook the syrup from 2 cups of sugar and 100 ml of water with the addition of lemon zest and orange. Constantly stirring the mixture, cook it for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat, filter and add the gelatin and juice. Next, according to the recipe, the marmalade from natural juice should be allowed to freeze. It can be poured into elastic cells from under a box of chocolates — so they will get an interesting shape and easily separate. Homemade chewable marmalades will never compare with store-bought ones. In addition, they are much more useful!
Apricots in the snow
Natural fruit ice cream also enjoys success with a sweet tooth. The recipe for its preparation is simple. Peel 1 kg of peaches from the skin and seeds, puree them with a blender. Beat 7 egg yolks with 200 g of sugar until the mass turns white. Heat a liter of cream over low heat, add the egg mixture and, stirring continuously, cook until thickened. Remove it from the stove, cool, pour in the peach puree and beat with a mixer until smooth. According to the recipe, natural ice cream should be put in the freezer for 3-4 hours, and every hour it must be punched with a mixer. Serve with waffles and a sprig of mint.
Milk pleasure
Natural yogurt is a champion among healthy treats. In the departments of baby food, it can be purchased without difficulty. But natural yogurt at home is much tastier. Bring a liter of milk to a boil, cook it for 5 minutes and cool it to 40 °C. We dissolve 1 package of sourdough (it can be purchased at the pharmacy) in 3-4 tbsp. l. milk and pour it back. If you don’t have a yogurt maker, a thermos will replace it. Fill it with milk and leave it to ferment for 7-8 hours. Ready-made yogurt can be sweetened with honey or jam, add fruit or berries, sprinkle with powdered sugar or grated chocolate. In short, fantasize with additives and delight your favorite sweetmeats.
Sticky apple
Apple pastille is another interesting recipe for natural sweets. Cleaning up ½ kg of apples, fill them with 2 cups of water and simmer on the fire for 30 minutes, until the fruit is cooked. Cool the mass, add 300 g of sugar and beat it with a blender. Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper, grease it with oil, pour the applesauce and level it into a layer no thicker than 1 cm. Dry the pastille for 2 days in the oven at a temperature of 50 °C. Periodically, it will need to be removed and cooled. The finished pastille is cut in half, rolled into tubes and cut into rolls. For those who like it sweeter, you can dust them with powdered sugar.
And what natural treats do your children like? Share recipes of your own composition and successful ideas of healthy sweets in the comments.