"I don't understand why humans consider mice as disgusting animals, carriers of bad luck and evils! We witches, on the other hand, like them very much, they are cute little animals that run around the house and give us the right inspiration for potions and magical rites! They are also sweet pets already, really sweet, so sweet that I decided to prepare them in the kitchen and eat them !! "
Let's see how to prepare some cute chocolate mice for Halloween.
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Identity Card of the Recipe
- 309 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
For 8 mice
- 150 g of dry biscuits
- 40 g of chocolate cream
- 100 g of fresh ricotta
- 15 g of bitter cocoa
- 50 g of sugar
- If necessary: 1-2 tablespoons of milk
To decorate
- 30 g of dark chocolate
- 1 tablespoon of silver beads
- A few chocolate dragees
- About 10 g of sliced almonds
- Q.b. of coconut flour
- Q.b. of bitter cocoa
- 1 tablespoon of Goji Berries
Materials Needed
- Bowl
- Plastic bag
- Rolling pin or meat tenderizer for cookies
- Sieve
- Chopping board
- Baking paper
Preparation
- Collect the dry biscuits in a plastic bag and cut them into crumbs with the help of a rolling pin or a meat mallet. Mix the biscuits with the sugar.
- Sift the unsweetened cocoa powder and add it to the biscuits.
- Mix the powders together with a spoonful of hazelnut and ricotta spread. Knead with your hands until you get a workable compound; if necessary, add a few tablespoons of milk to facilitate processing.
- Divide the mixture thus obtained into 8 more or less equal parts. From each portion, obtain an oval with an elongated end: in this way, the body of the mouse can be obtained.
- Roll 4 mice in grated coconut and the remaining 4 in unsweetened cocoa powder: in this way we will obtain black and white mice.
- At this point, proceed with the decoration. To prepare the tails, melt the dark chocolate in the microwave or in a double boiler. Drain the melted chocolate onto sheets of baking paper, trying to make sticks with a curled end: in this way, you will get the tails of the mice. Leave the chocolate to cool in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
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To speed up the times, it is advisable to let the chocolate sticks cool in the freezer: in this way, the tails will be ready in a few minutes!- In the meantime, decorate the faces of the mice. Make the eyes with silver beads, the mouth with a goji berry and the ears with colored chocolate confetti or with almond flakes.
- Once cooled, the chocolate will have taken on the shape of a stick. Gently insert each tail of chocolate into the mouse, opposite the nose.
- The Halloween mice are ready!
Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
We bet that now you humans will start looking at these mice with a different eye? I told you that mice are sweet pets (and they are good to eat) !!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
Halloween Chocolate Mice are rather energetic desserts, with a caloric prevalence attributable to carbohydrates, followed by lipids and finally proteins.
The breakdown of fatty acids is in favor of the unsaturated ones, cholesterol is not very present but the fibers are abundant.
Halloween Chocolate Mice are not suitable foods for the diet against overweight and certain metabolic diseases. They contain gluten and lactose, which is why they do not lend themselves to the diet against related intolerances.
The average portion is around 30g (95kcal).
The nutritional values refer to 100 grams of mice, without decoration.
