Grilyazh is the favorite delicacy of many. How to cook candy and "Grilyage" cake?

Regardless of who and how it treats the name of this French delicacy, it is warmly loved by the overwhelming majority of sweeties. "The grill is a chocolate candy with a firm filling," some readers will say. In part, they are right. But experts will correct that this name can be determined only the filling of delicacies. "The grill is a delicious nutty cake," others will say. It is very sweet and nourishing, can be as soft or rather hard. And this opinion is also correct.

In fact, the grilling is nuts, coarse, filled with thick fruit jam or sugar syrup and dried. It is customary to call any dish or confectionery product, which includes nuts and sugar. These include some sweets, cakes and cakes.

Origin and types

Grillage is one of the popular French desserts made from sugar and roasted nuts. With its origins, the dish goes back to the coarsely ground eastern halva. Some sweets from walnut, Soviet, and later Russian production, have the same name.

Pastry confectioners, where the presence of crushed nuts are mandatory, is divided into two types:

• Soft, where the presence of fried fruits is provided.
• Solid, which uses molten sugar.

It is also known that this term refers to grill candy, in which the binder is a fruit syrup. The technology of their production is not too complicated.

Candy "Grilyage": can I cook at home?

Grill candies are loved by many. They are bought both for everyday tea drinking and for a festive table. A special taste of the delicacy is provided by the presence in it of an amazing combination of the taste of chocolate, caramel and fried nuts. The products of various manufacturers (TM "Skava", "Svitoch", "Krasny Oktyabr", Doma, etc.) are distinguished by the uniqueness of the recipe and the quality of the ingredients, the naturalness of which is often questioned by the authors of numerous reviews.

Candy "Grilling in chocolate", as experienced home-made confectioners assure, it is quite easy to cook at home on your own. Their advantageous difference from the store products ("Belochek", "Prometheus", "Meteorites") is precisely the availability of natural ingredients. A delicacy cooked at home will not only taste good, but also useful.

Cooking candy at home

One of the options are sweets "Grilyazh in chocolate" made at home. The article suggests a step-by-step recipe for preparing a treat.

In the composition of this treat very interesting are the dried apricots, chopped prunes, candied fruits. By the way, they can be used not only fruit, but also vegetable - from carrots or beets. Piquancy delicacy will give a small portion of alcohol. It is best, as the homegrown craftsmen believe, to add cognac to the grilling sweets. But if they are offered to children, it is better, of course, do without alcohol.

During cooking, in a microwave or on a water bath, chocolate melts. Mistresses share that black chocolate takes more time to solidify than milk. The consistency of ready-made sweets with black chocolate will be stiffer than with the milk chocolate.

So, the ingredients

To prepare the grill, you will need:

• 1 glass of walnuts;
• 5 pieces of dried apricots;
• 100 g of granulated sugar;
• 3 tbsp. Spoons of water;
• 1 dessert spoon of lemon juice.

The glaze will be made from 170-200 g of dark chocolate. To ensure trouble-free separation of sweets from the plate on which they will be made, use 1-2 tsp. Butter.

What devices will be needed?

During the preparation of home grilling candy mistress will have to use:

• A ladle for boiling water;
• Saucer for melting chocolate;
• A tablespoon to stir the glaze and cooked sugar;
• Dessert spoon for measuring the juice squeezed out of lemon;
• A ladle for cooking a grill;
• Dish with cold water for wetting hands or a spoon (needed for the formation of grilling balls of dried apricots, nuts, and boiled sugar);
• Toothpicks for piercing the grilling balls up to 10-15 pieces;
• Two plates for placing ready-made sweets.

Preparation

The step-by-step instruction is as follows:

• First you need to chop the walnuts. Cut dried apricots into small pieces and mix with nuts.
• In a ladle pour sugar, water, mix and put on a slow fire.
• The mixture must be cooked until the syrup thickens and changes its color from white to light brown.
• Remove the dishes from the fire, add the lemon juice, mix. The juice will prevent the mixture from solidifying. As an option, in the process of making sweets, you can use honey instead of cooked sugar.
• Pour a mixture of dried apricots and nuts into a sugar-lemon stock and mix well with a spoon.
• Using a spoon, which should be constantly moistened in cold water, form the balls. You can do this directly in your hands, which should also be constantly moistened in cold water.
• Next, each ball is stuck on a toothpick. It is better to do this with screwing movements - this will prevent the balls from falling apart.

Then you should prepare a base for sweets. To do this, with constant stirring, melt on the water bath slightly less than half of all the available chocolate. After that, the plate is smeared with butter and applied to it hot flat round chocolate rings - there should be exactly as many as the grilling balls created.

Next, you should melt the remaining chocolate on the water bath. Nut-sugar-fruit balls are completely covered with glaze. Each candy should be put on a chocolate base, take out all the toothpick sweets, and cover the places where they were stuck with chocolate. After that, the ready-made sweets are removed for half an hour in the refrigerator to freeze.

The rest of the melted chocolate with a spoon on a clean plate is applied some drawing, which will be an ornament, provided for when feeding. A plate with a pattern is also for 30 min. Clean in the refrigerator. Half an hour later, candies and dishes with a picture are taken from the refrigerator to beautifully lay out. If desired, the dish can be decorated with chocolate slices and half a walnut.

Cake "Grilyage"

In an unusually tasty, firm, very sweet and hearty dessert, natural and healthy ingredients are harmoniously combined: honey, chocolate caramel, walnuts. The preparation of a grilling cake, which is distinguished by its excellent taste, according to the opinions of experienced culinary experts, is easy. The process itself will take about seven hours. The preparation will take about half an hour. Further in the article the recipe for 12 servings is offered.

Ingredients

The grilling cake is prepared from the following products:

• 200 g of butter;
• 200 ml of honey;
• 4 glasses of wheat flour;
• Sugar (half cup);
• 1 tsp. Soda;
• 5 ml of apple cider vinegar;
• Two eggs.

Caramel is made from the following ingredients:

• Cocoa powder (5 tablespoons);
• 400 g of butter;
• 8 tablespoons of honey;
• 2 walnuts;
• Two glasses of sugar.

How to cook?

First, the dough is made: sugar is beaten with eggs, honey is added, then the mixture is stirred. Put butter in the pan and melt. Pour into the egg mixture and stir. Add the flour.

Next, the dough is mixed. Flours may be needed more than indicated in the recipe. The main thing is to make sure that the dough does not stick to your hands. Then you need to "extinguish" soda, add it to the dough and mix thoroughly. Divide the dough into 6 balls, equal in size. Each ball is spread on a baking sheet or in a special form, pre-lubricated with margarine and sprinkled with flour. Then the balls are rolled into the cakes.

Each cake is pierced with a fork, put for 15 minutes in an oven, heated to 180 ° C. Then you should do caramel. To do this, chop the nuts (should be 2 cups). Melt the butter. In turn, add sugar, nuts, cocoa and honey. Put on the fire and cook with constant stirring for about 5-7 minutes.

Then the prepared caramel is smeared with cakes and collect the cake, as usual. The top should be lubricated so that the caramel flows painstakingly to the side parts of the treats. The cake should be allowed to cool and soak for 5-6 hours. The resulting refreshment will decorate any table and will please the guests, gathered for a tea party.