Turrón de Chocolate

Name: Turrón de Chocolate
Cuisine: Peruvian
Ingredients: 2 cups vanilla wafers or cookies (broken into small pieces); 2 cups vanilla wafers or cookies (broken into small pieces); 1 cup (200 g) raisins; 8 oz (220 g) butter; 3 eggs; 1 cup sugar; ¾ cup sifted cocoa powder; 1 cup (200 g) chopped pecans

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Art of Peruvian Cuisine

By Tony Custer

Published 2000

About

A friend of mine once told me ‘if you ever meet someone who doesn’t like chocolate there might be something seriously wrong with him’. The recipe for this delicious chilled chocolate turrón is from Lisette Hansa. Serve it with thick chocolate fudge sauce and you have a chocolate lover’s double delight.

Ingredients

2 cups vanilla wafers or cookies (broken into small pieces)
8 oz (220 g

Americas
Peru
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preparation

Melt butter in the top of a double boiler over low heat. Remove from the heat and mix in sifted cocoa powder. In a large bowl, beat sugar and eggs together until the mixture forms soft peaks.

Gently fold butter and cocoa mixture into the beaten eggs with a spatula. Mix in raisins and pecans. (Reserve some chopped pecans for decoration.) Add the broken wafers and mi