Rustic Chocolates with Dried Figs, Pistachios, and Toasted Nuts

Preparation info
  • Makes

    40 to 80 squares

    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Aglaia Kremezi

Published 2014

  • About

My friend Vicki Snyder says that every cookbook, no matter what its subject matter, must include a chocolate dessert. Here is mine: a medley of dried figs, banana jerky, chopped toasted nuts, and pistachios—barely held together by bittersweet chocolate. I offer boxes to friends together with jars of my marmalade. All through the winter and spring, I have a jar of these chocolates next to a jar of savory biscotti. But when the weather gets hot I stop making