BM # 46 Week 3 Day 1
For the last week of BM # 46 , I have picked Festival recipes. Christmas being round the corner, I thought of making Mendiants. Mendiants are French confection, which are discs or pieces studded with nuts and dried fruits.These represent the four mendicants of the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans and Carmelites.these chocolates are usually found during Christmas. The traditional chocolate has taken new combinations of nuts and fruit peels. These might be very simple ones but taste amazing. The apricots and nuts give a wonderful flavor after being chewed with chocolate. In fact Fruit and Nut has always been my favorite amongst chocolate bars.
The recipe is simple and nothing much has to be done, but here is how I made these.
What you need
Cooking chocolate
Almonds
Cashews
Pistachios
Apricots
Blue berries
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.
Stir well with a spatula and make sure you have a smooth consistency.
Pour the melted chocolate into a tray or using a spoon drop as discs.
Let it set for a while and while it is still moist place the nuts and raisins, or what ever dried fruits you wish to top it with.
If using a tray make indents, so it is easy to break the slab into pieces.
Enjoy.
Nuts and chocolate go so well and this is so easy to prepare. And a nice holiday dessert/snack.
So easy and sounds delicious. Chocolates and nuts make a great combo.
Oh I was planning to make these as well..:)…very nicely done…
wow such an addictive mendiants 🙂 looks fantastic with dry fruits topped:)
Great info about Mendiants. Looks great
very festive, very royal…lovely…will make them for xmas
Wow mouth watering Vaishali. Nuts and chocolate, I just love them.
Sound delicious. I will make these on Saturday for Sunday is special day for mee.Thanks.
Oh my god, chocolate with nuts looks so decadent. Love the pictures they are so tempting.
I can die for this mendiants, please do send me some..Too tempting..
Yummy would love to have some.
Looks very festive! Would make very good gifts in the festival season!
looks so colorful and inviting
OMG this looks so delicious plus they are so simple to make…love it
I think Suma made these for the mega BM and I bookmarked it. They are great edible gifts for the holidays.