round balls in gilded wrapping can often be seen on store shelves. Beautiful packaging allows them to become an excellent sweet gift for any celebration. But is it possible to cook them at home? In this article we will talk about Ferrero Rocher sweets.
A little history
The birthplace of this delicacy is Italy. It is produced by the company of the same name. It is noteworthy that this is a family business and during the existence of the brand there have been three generations of the dynasty. The founder of the dynasty, Pietro, inherited from his father a small bakery in a small provincial Italian town. He was not engaged in the production of bakery products for long; the confectionery business seemed to him much more profitable. As the future showed, he was not mistaken in his calculations. Even in difficult post-war business conditions, he was able to keep the company afloat. So, in 1942, Pietro opened his own store. The enterprising Italian had to work literally around the clock. In the morning he personally baked cakes and prepared desserts, spent the day behind the counter, and at night he came up with new recipes. His efforts paid off with increased demand and already in 1946 the first Ferrero confectionery factory was founded.
By the way, the creative component of Pietro’s character was realized quite successfully. In the same 1946, he invented Nutella spread, beloved by many people with a sweet tooth. Until now, sales of this product bring the company about 40% of its total profits. Subsequently, the company's successful projects included: Tic Tac dragees, Kinder Surprise, beloved by children around the world, and, of course, Ferrero Rocher candies. They first went on sale in 1982. Then the company was already managed by Pietro’s son. According to experts, the phenomenal success of this enterprise is explained by the fact that all new products, which subsequently gained worldwide popularity, invariably went a long way from an idea to a finished delicacy with excellent taste and attractive appearance.
What is Ferrero Rocher?
The original Ferrero Rocher chocolates have a round shape. During production, a whole hazelnut is placed in the center of each of them. Hazelnuts, as a rule, are enclosed in a thin wafer filled with delicate cream. The wafer body of this delicacy is traditionally covered with chocolate glaze with the addition of crushed hazelnuts. The calorie content of one finished product is 70 kcal.
Homemade recipe
The furor that Ferrero Rocher made on the market was attempted by many manufacturers. In stores you can find many sweets that resemble them in their structure and set of main components. However, it is not at all necessary to go to the store in search of the original delicacy or its analogues. Preparing it is quite simple and does not require much time. Homemade Ferrero Rocher will certainly turn out to be no worse in taste than store-bought ones.
We will need:
- 200 gr. Nutella chocolate spread;
- 50 gr. milk chocolate;
- 70 gr. hazelnuts;
- 6 waffle tartlets.
- First, let's start filling our dessert. To do this, you need to mix Nutella and chocolate. It is recommended to first grind the second ingredient into small pieces, and the best solution would be to use it in grated form. Before adding chocolate to the paste, you should melt it either in a water bath or in the microwave. After adding it to Nutella, mix the resulting mixture thoroughly.
- Carefully fill the waffle tartlets with the resulting mixture. Each tartlet filled with filling must be filled with a nut. To do this, you will need to place the hazelnut in the middle of the surface of the filling and press it with the tip of a knife until it is completely out of sight.
- Next, put the tartlets in the refrigerator. After their contents have hardened, you can begin the final stage of preparation, which will allow you to achieve maximum resemblance to the original sweets.
- Having taken homemade Ferrero Rocher chocolates out of the refrigerator, we begin to prepare the icing for them. Grind the nuts in a blender and melt the chocolate again in any way convenient for you. Add nuts to it and mix thoroughly - the texture should be homogeneous. We dip the tartlets into it one by one.
- In this form, it is most convenient to place the tartlets on pre-prepared wax paper or foil. We put our sweet preparations in the refrigerator again and wait until the glaze hardens on them. After that, we take them out and begin to “correct” their shape. You will need to use a knife to remove all excess and unevenness that may interfere with “gluing” the tartlets together in pairs. In this case, a thin layer of glaze will act as the “glue”. Having completed a similar manipulation, we put our Ferrero Rocher sweets into the refrigerator for the last time, after which they will be ready for use.
Important nuances
- The size of the blanks in the recipe proposed above directly depends on the size of the waffle tartlets. Keep this in mind when purchasing them!
- You can always experiment with ingredients if you wish. For example, choose other nuts to use in the filling.
- As you know, sweets are produced under the Ferrero Rocher trademark, the recipe of which has remained unchanged for many years. However, this does not prevent the manufacturer from constantly improving the visual design of its products. If you are planning to give your own Ferrero Rocher chocolates as a gift to a loved one, you should follow the example of the world famous brand and also take care of decent packaging.
- When finished, such sweets can be used as decorative elements for other (larger) desserts, such as cakes or pastries.
Alternative recipe
If you need to make Ferrero Rocher in a hurry, use a simpler recipe. Unfortunately, it does not allow you to maintain the correct structure of the original delicacy, invented in Italy, but it quite accurately conveys its taste. By the way, due to its simplicity, this recipe is suitable for cooking with children.
We will need:
- 150-170 g hazelnuts;
- 150 grams of chocolate wafers;
- 200 grams of Nutella chocolate spread;
- 200 grams of milk chocolate.
- First, dry the hazelnuts in the oven; this process will take no more than 10 minutes. Next, grind it using a blender. We do the same for waffles. Mix crushed nuts and waffles, add chocolate paste to them. The resulting mixture must be mixed thoroughly.
- Now we begin the process of forming balls using a teaspoon. If the mixture is too liquid and does not quite hold its shape, put it in the freezer for a while.
- Prepared sweets need to be placed in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes. By this time it is recommended to prepare the glaze. To do this, melt the chocolate in a water bath. Each ball-blank should be dipped into slightly cooled glaze. After it hardens, the sweets will be ready to eat. You can serve them to guests as a treat with tea or coffee.
Watch the video on how to make Ferrero Rocher sweets at home:
Today we present to you a homemade recipe for Ferrero Rocher sweets with a unique, exquisite taste that you can improve if you wish. The Ferrero Rocher recipe is quite simple, but you must follow the cooking steps and create a beautiful round shape by hand. If you want to make a classic layer between the nuts and the frosting, use finely crushed hazelnuts rather than powder.
Ingredients for Ferrero Rocher sweets
- 100 grams of wafers with hazelnuts,
- 150 grams of chopped hazelnuts,
- several whole nuts
- 200 grams Nutella,
- 200 grams of milk chocolate.
Making Ferrero Rocher sweets
Take a deep bowl and pour in the chopped wafers, crushed toasted hazelnuts and Nutella. Blend candy ingredients until smooth and creamy. If Nutella is difficult to remove from the jar, place it near the stove for a while to soften it.
Place the bowl in the refrigerator for half an hour to allow all the ingredients to thicken. After this, distribute the chocolate mixture into small portions and form balls, filling each with a whole hazelnut and giving it a round shape. Then place these candies on a tray and leave in the refrigerator for another 1 hour.
Break the creamy chocolate into pieces and melt it in a water bath, then carefully dip the candies into the chocolate and dry on wax paper. If you want to create a thicker layer of icing on your candies, you can dip them in this manner several times.
Homemade Ferrero Rocher sweets are ready - a wonderful gourmet dessert at no extra cost! They can also be wrapped in foil or food paper. You can roll the candies in crushed toasted hazelnuts, coconut flakes, crushed wafers, in addition, they themselves can serve as a decoration for a cake, pastry or other dessert.
Ferrero Rocher candy recipe (Ferrero Rocher)
I think that few people are indifferent to the famous candies Ferrero Rocher. I invite you to please yourself and surprise your loved ones with delicious chocolate balls with nuts, which are in no way inferior in taste to factory-made ones. Ferrero Rocher. The recipe is very simple and easy to prepare.
Option #1
Ingredients for homemade Ferrero Rocher (for 12 sweets):
- 100 grams of chopped nut wafers;
- 150 grams of roasted and coarsely chopped hazelnuts + 12 whole nuts;
- 200 g Nutella chocolate spread;
- 150 g dark or milk chocolate
Making homemade Ferrero Rocher sweets:
1. In a separate bowl, mix crushed waffles, coarsely chopped nuts and Nutella. You should get a thick filling with pieces of waffles and hazelnuts. Place the mixture in the refrigerator for about half an hour. The filling should harden.
2. After the allotted time has passed, when the chocolate mass is ready for modeling, scoop a teaspoon of chocolate cream and roll it into balls, inserting a whole nut into each one. Place the finished balls, laid out on a flat plate, in the refrigerator again so that they secure their shape and harden.
3. Next, melt the chocolate in a water bath and, placing it on a wooden skewer, dip each nut ball into it. Place the balls on a wire rack so that the top layer of chocolate sets. Then we send the balls back to harden in the refrigerator. If desired, as a top layer, while the chocolate is still wet and sticky, you can roll the candies in nut crumbs.
To fully match homemade sweets with the original, you can wrap each candy in golden foil.
Option No. 2
Ferrero Rocher at home Ingredients: Chocolate wafer - 100 g Hazelnuts - 150 g Nutella - 200 g Dark (or milk) chocolate - 250 g Preparation: Heat the oven to 180C. Dry the nuts in the oven for 8-10 minutes. Exfoliate the nuts with your hands or a towel. Finely chop the nuts. Break the waffles to medium crumbs. Mix waffles with nuts. Add Nutella and press together with your hands. Make balls from 1 teaspoon of chocolate mixture. If the mass is too liquid, then put it in the freezer for 15-20 minutes. Place the finished balls in the refrigerator for 45 minutes. Melt the chocolate in a water bath. Cool the chocolate and dip each ball into the mixture. The sweets should harden - and feel free to serve them with coffee.
- CHOCOLATE GLAZING ------4 tbsp milk, 4 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp (full) drained butter (I put more, the glaze is stronger), 3-4 tbsp cocoa (I also put more, I like it bitter chocolate). Put the butter + milk on the fire. Once the butter has melted, pour in the sugar and cocoa (before doing this, I mix them together well, rubbing them into an even mixture), stirring all the time so that it doesn’t burn (preferably over low heat), bring to a boil (do not boil), the cocoa will change the color will turn black and the mixture will become thick. Cool everything and you're ready. I make a double batch, more butter, stronger glaze, well, using the test method!
- caveat - cocoa can form lumps, then during the process, after I have mixed the glaze well, I take a small strainer and rub all the lumps through it while it is still on the stove until it boils, quickly and conveniently!
- but you can do without Nutella by preparing the glaze at home, adding nuts and waffles, and then follow the recipe.
Hello, dear readers of the culinary blog and lovers of delicious sweets! We recommend preparing a fantastically delicious Ferrero Rocher cake: a recipe with FERRERO ROCHER sweets, and the attached photos will help you understand all the intricacies.
This cake is based on the popular candies of the same name. Its main ingredients are nut butter, hazelnuts, crispy wafers and lots and lots of chocolate. This is a real royal dessert for any family celebration.
Ingredients:
For the cakes:
1. Vegetable oil - 120 ml;
2. Cow's milk - 240 ml;
3. Lemon - 1 large slice;
4. Freshly brewed coffee - 200 ml;
5. Vanillin (essence) - 1 tsp;
6. Cocoa - 65 g;
7. Flour - 450 gr;
8. Soda - 2 tsp;
9. Baking powder for dough - 1 tsp;
10. Eggs - 2 pcs.;
11. Salt - a pinch.
For cream No. 1:
1. Nutella - 350 g;
2. Cream 33%-35% - 175 gr.
For cream No. 2:
1. Egg white - 4 pcs.;
2. Sugar syrup - 90 grams of water + 300 grams of granulated sugar;
3. Butter, softened - 400 gr.
4. Nutella - 4 tbsp;
5. Waffles without filling - 3 pcs.;
6. Hazelnuts - 200 gr;
7. Vanilla essence - 1 tsp;
8. Salt - a pinch.;
9. Citric acid - 1 pinch.
For the final layer (chocolate ganache):
1. Cream 35% - 60 g;
2. Chocolate - 100 gr.
Cooking method:
Preparing sponge cakes:
1. Prepare a baking dish in advance; in our case, we used two, 18 cm in diameter. Place a circle of parchment on the bottom of each, and also grease the sides with vegetable oil.
2. To prepare the cakes, add the amount of baking powder, soda and salt indicated in the ingredients to the sifted flour.
3. Pour the juice from 1 slice of lemon into the milk and set aside for 5 minutes until the milk curdles. Instead of such curdled milk, you can use natural yogurt or kefir.
4. Pour high-quality cocoa powder and sugar into the flour mixture, mix thoroughly and sift so that no lumps remain.
5. Beat the eggs (not chilled) into a separate container and pour in the vegetable oil.
6. Add vanilla extract.
7. Then the resulting yogurt. Beat with a mixer until smooth. Then gradually add the flour mixture, turning on the mixer at minimum speed.
Stir for 1 minute. Pour hot, strong coffee at the very end and stir again. The mass should be homogeneous and incredibly aromatic.
8. The coffee used is as strong and freshly brewed as possible. To do this, add 2 scoops of coffee to 200 ml of water.
9. Divide the dough into 2 equal parts and pour into the prepared forms, evenly distributing the dough over the entire surface with rotating movements. This helps the cake rise evenly.
10. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 35 minutes (check the readiness of the cake with a match). The finished cakes should be cooled for 15 minutes, and then removed from the springform pan, removing the parchment.
While the cakes are cooling completely on a wire rack, prepare two creams: the first for coating the inside of the cakes, and the second for the outer decoration.
Prepare buttercream with nutella:
1. Pour the cream into a bowl.
2. Beat with a mixer, first at medium power, and then at maximum until stiff peaks form.
3. Reduce speed, add Nutella and stir until smooth.
Prepare an airy protein butter custard with Nutella.
1. Add citric acid to sugar syrup to avoid sugar crystallization.
2. Cook it over medium heat without stirring.
3. Beat the whites to stiff peaks, first at low speed, and then immediately at maximum speed, add a pinch of salt.
As soon as the syrup reaches a temperature of 125 degrees, remove it from the heat and pour it into the whites in a thin stream, without getting on the mixer whisk. Do not stop the beating process.
4. Continue beating the egg whites until the air mass cools down. Add vanilla extract. If the mixer bowl is not hot, you can reduce the mixer speed to medium.
5. Add room temperature butter in small portions.
6. Add Nutella.
7. Stir until smooth.
In this case, the use of a blender or a weakly powerful mixer is excluded, as the devices may burn out. A mixer from 350 W is suitable.
We prepare additional components.
1. Divide the cooled cakes in half lengthwise, removing any unevenness that formed during baking. Hazelnuts are necessary both for the filling and for decorating the sides of the cake.
2. Fry the nuts in a dry frying pan, and then chop them until they form coarse crumbs. A wafer is used to add an extra crunchy touch.
You can purchase any waffles without filling. Trim all waffles to fit the shape of the cakes.
Let's start assembling the cake.
1. To prevent the cake from sliding on the surface, apply a little cream under the first layer. Spread the bottom cake with cream No. 1.
2. Place the waffle on top, and spread the protein cream around the edges.
3. Apply cream No. 1 again to the wafer. Sprinkle nuts on top and cover with the other half of the cake.
4. The above algorithm is repeated: buttercream with Nutella on the crust, wafer, protein cream around the edges, buttercream with Nutella on the waffle, nuts and crust again.
5. The surface of the last cake should be perfectly flat. Cover the top with egg white cream.
6. Use a spatula to level the sides and top. Place the cake in the refrigerator so that the cream hardens slightly, and then apply another layer of protein cream again.
To decorate the top of the cake, prepare chocolate ganache.
1. Chop the chocolate into small pieces and pour heavy cream into the chocolate. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler, stirring constantly, or in the microwave at short intervals.
2. Pour chocolate ganache over the cake, creating chocolate drips. Carefully level the top with a spatula. Cover the sides with chopped hazelnuts.
Top with FERRERO ROCHER candies.
1. The cake turns out very tasty, as chocolatey as possible, with soft cake layers and light textured buttercream and a savory layer with crispy waffles and nuts.
Be sure to prepare the Ferrero Rocher cake, because the recipe is presented in the most easy-to-read form, step by step. Enjoy your tea! We look forward to your feedback, recommendations and suggestions.
Homemade Ferrero Rocher sweets - few can resist such a temptation
The famous Ferrero Rocher chocolate-nut balls have been on the pedestal of gourmet chocolate treats for many years. These candies are recognizable both from the inside and by their characteristic golden packaging. This sweetness is not for every day, but for a special occasion, and not for just anyone, but for the most loved ones. Why not add a personal touch to this treat and make it at home using your own handpicked, premium ingredients?
Original homemade chocolates filled with nuts, chocolate-nut paste and wafer crumbs - few can resist such a temptation. You hesitate in vain before trying this Ferrero Rocher recipe - nothing difficult to prepare.
Ingredients for Ferrero Rocher (for about 12 chocolates):
100 grams of chopped nut wafers;
150 grams of roasted and coarsely chopped hazelnuts + 12 whole nuts;
200 g Nutella chocolate spread;
150 grams of dark chocolate (or milk chocolate - optional). Making homemade Ferrero Rocher sweets:
1. In a separate bowl, combine the crumbled waffles, coarsely chopped nuts and Nutella. You should get a thick filling with pieces of waffles and hazelnuts. Place the mixture in the refrigerator to harden for about half an hour.
2. After the allotted time has passed, when the chocolate mass is ready for modeling, scoop up a portion of chocolate cream with a teaspoon and roll it into balls, inserting a whole nut into each one. Place the finished balls, laid out on a flat plate, in the refrigerator again so that they secure their shape and harden.
3. At this time, melt the chocolate in a water bath and, placing it on a wooden skewer, dip each nut ball into it. Place the balls on a wire rack to allow the top layer of chocolate to set. Then put the balls back in the refrigerator to harden. If desired, as a top layer, while the chocolate is still wet and sticky, you can roll the candies in nut crumbs.
If you want to achieve full compliance of your home masterpiece with the famous prototype, you can wrap each candy in golden foil.
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