Apricot-coconut sweets

Name: apricot-coconut sweets
Total time: 95 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 250 gram dried apricots; 125 ml freshly squeezed orange juice; 125 gram grated coconut; 100 gram extra pure chocolate

Ingredients

Directions

Cut or cut the apricots into very small pieces of about half a inch and put them in a saucepan.
Pour in the orange juice.
Bring it to the boil while stirring.
Let it boil gently for eight minutes until the juice is absorbed.
Remove the pan from the heat and stir in three quarters of the coconut.
It must be a solid mixture.
Add more coconut if necessary.
Let it cool.
Draw a square of 20 x 20 cm on a piece of baking paper.
Spread the apricot mixture evenly in the square and press it firmly until it is just as thick everywhere.
Cut this apricot cake into 25 squares and let it rest for half an hour in a cool place (not in the fridge).
Bring a layer of water to a boil in an au bainmarie pan.
Break the chocolate over the bowl.
Hang the bowl over the water and let the chocolate melt with stirring.
Stick the apricot sweets one at a time on a satéstick.
Dip them half in the chocolate.
Put the apricot sweets on the same baking paper carefully off the skewer and let it firm in a cool place in half an hour.
Serve the candies on a plate.