Jamie Magazine
By Ginny Rolfe
15 mins plus setting
Not Too Tricky
makes 20
About the recipe
Popular in the Middle East, dates are the fruit of the palm tree. Sweet like caramel, they work well with a dark chocolate coating.
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Ingredients
150g quality dark chocolate (70%)
20 large dates
optional: 60g marzipan
20 whole blanched almonds
Method
- Break the chocolate up into pieces, then place in a glass bowl set over a small pan of simmering water, without letting the bottom of the bowl touch the water. Stir until melted, then turn off the heat.
- Cut a slit down the side of each date and remove the stone. Wrap a little marzipan (heat to soften slightly), around each almond, then stuff one in each date.
- One by one, dip the dates in the melted chocolate to coat, then place on a sheet of greaseproof paper to set.
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