Avoid food waste with chocolate Santa Claus spread

Making chocolate santa claus for delicious spread
During the Christmas season, a large amount of food has accumulated in many German households. Homemade cookies and sweets have been added to the mostly numerous dishes, especially chocolate St. Nicholas. These can be used quite well elsewhere.

Too many food
Often have accumulated in the Advent season large amounts of Christmas sweets. On the feast days there were even more. In many German households now stands a large number of chocolate St. Nicholas. Often too much to eat all of them. But they do not need to be discarded; You can also use them differently to avoid a food waste.

Anyone who has been given too many chocolate sweets at Christmas will not have to eat them all soon. You can also easily prepare spreads for bread. (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" (Edition Winter 2016/2017) there is a recipe for this: 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. 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
However, you should pay attention to what brands you got so gifted. Because the consumer protection organization Foodwatch reported only a few weeks ago that it has found in a laboratory analysis hazardous 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)