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Do not waste: This is how you make a spread out of chocolate Santa Claus

Most households have accumulated a lot of sweets at Christmas time. Especially chocolate Santa Claus were often bought and given away. Whoever still has some at home, but does not want to eat after the gluttony of the last days, can make it a delicious spread.

To process chocolate Santa Claus to spread

In recent weeks, a large number of Christmas sweets has accumulated in numerous German households, especially chocolate St. Nicholas. Often way too much to eat. But they do not need to be discarded; You can also use the sweet Santas differently to avoid a food waste.

Anyone who has been given too many chocolate sweets at Christmastime does not have to eat them all. You can also easily make a spread from it. (Image: twixx / fotolia.com)

Recipe for half a kilo of spread

Anyone who has been given too many chocolate Santa Claus in the pre-Christmas period and the festival does not necessarily have to eat it right away. From the sweet chocolate figurines you can also make a tasty nut nougat cream for your bread.

In the magazine "Effilee" (issue January 2018) there is a recipe for it: For 250 grams of spread you need 250 grams of chocolate Santa Claus 150 grams of hazelnuts, a tablespoon of sugar, 100 grams of butter, 40 milliliters of whole milk, half a vanilla pod and a pinch of salt.

First, the nuts are roasted at 180 degrees for about a quarter of an hour in the oven and then rubbed off the skin with a tea towel. Then they are finely ground in a blender.

Then melt the chocolate over a water bath and mix it with liquid butter, milk, vanilla and salt.

Finally, the ground nuts are underlined. When the cream has cooled, it comes into a clean container, such as a screw jar.

Health-endangering substances detected

If you want to make a spread out of the Christmas sweets, you should always pay attention to which brands are used.

For the consumer protection organization Foodwatch has reported several times in the past that it has found in laboratory analyzes harmful mineral oils in chocolate Santa Claus.

The detected substances are sometimes suspected of triggering cancer. Affected Santa Claus should therefore probably not be processed into spreads. (Ad)