Chocolate nut clusters, delicious and crunchy treat made of toasted nuts and dark chocolate. Nut clusters are easy treats that can be made literally in minutes.
I have used the oven for toasting the oven. Takethe chopped nuts in a oven-proof tray, add a teaspoon of oil and using your hands,mix it into the nuts well
Preheat the oven to 180 C and toast the nuts 8-10 minutes. The temperature and timings vary from oven to oven, so keep an eye from 8th minute. Once done, remove the nuts and let it cool completely, before using it in the recipe.
Let us make the chocolate clusters
In a microwave safe bowl, add roughly chopped chocolate, microwave it for 60 seconds first. Remove it and give it a stir, check if all the chocolate is melted, if you have huge chunks of chocolate, then microwave it for another 15-20 seconds and mix it again.
Remove the chocolate from the microwave, stir it until smooth. Let it sit for 10-15 seconds, now add the chopped, roasted and well cooled nuts to this chooclate, add the cinnamon and mix it well.
Keep a parchment lined tray ready by your side.Place spoonful of chocoalte nuts on the tray, giving some gap inbetween eachlump you put on the tray
Refrigerate the tray until the chocolate is set. It would be ready in 10 minutes. Remove the clusters and refrigerate them. If the chocolate is well tempered it would stay good in room temperature also, if not it might start melting.
Enjoy these nutty chocolate clusters, they make a great snack, healthy too.
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Notes
i prefer using the oven to roast the nuts. You can also do it on stove-top, but take care not to burn the nuts, do it in simmer flame until you get a toasted aroma of the nuts.
The nuts must be completely cooled before adding it to the chocolate.
Again i prefer the microwave to melt the chocolate. you can also melt it on stove-top, follow bain-marie/double boiler method.
I have used cinnamon powder as flavoring, you can also use vanilla or your choice flavors.
I prefer to refrigerate the nut clusters, since the chocolate might melt in room temperature, if its not tempered well.