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Chocolate Christmas Stars with Nuts and Cranberries

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Chocolate Christmas Stars with Nuts and Cranberries

Santa will love these white chocolate stars packed with dried cranberries, pistachios and toasted almonds - and so will the rest of the family!

Preparation time:
20 mins, plus 1 hour to set
Cooking time:
15 minutes
Total time:
1 hour 35 minutes 60 minutes 35 minutes
Makes:
 12 stars

Ingredients

  • 2 x 150g packs Waitrose Cooks' Ingredients White Chocolate, broken into chunks
  • 75ml double cream
  • 50g shelled pistachios, roughly chopped
  • 50g Waitrose Toasted Flaked Almonds
  • 100g pack Waitrose Wholesome Dried Cranberries

Method

  1. Line a 20 x 30cm airtight container or metal tin with baking parchment, leaving some overhanging the edges, which will act as a handle later on.
  2. Bring a pan of water to the boil over a high heat. Place the chocolate and cream in a large bowl. Remove the pan from the heat and place the bowl over the pan, making sure that it does not touch the water. Leave to stand for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the chocolate mixture has completely melted.
  3. With the bowl still over the pan of water, stir the pistachios, almonds and cranberries into the melted chocolate and mix thoroughly to coat.
  4. Spoon the mixture into the prepared container or tin and level the surface with the back of the spoon. Cover with clingfilm and place in the fridge. Leave for 1 hour or until completely set.
  5. Remove the set chocolate from the container using the overhanging parchment 'handle' and place on a board. Use a metal star cutter (about 5cm across) to stamp out 12 shapes. Keep in the fridge until ready to eat.

Cook's tips

If the off-cuts of chocolate don't get nibbled along the way, try them roughly chopped and folded through plain cake or cookie mixture before baking.

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nellyg

nellyg 10 December 2009 21:12

I was unable to find a the required 20 x 30cm airtight container or metal tin for making this recipe so never got round to making the chocolate Christmas stars! But I woould like to make them this year so I am wonering if anyone could recommend where I could find a suitable conatiner or perhaps suggest an alternative.

Rev. Ruth

Rev. Ruth 30 December 2008 23:40

Perhaps using a heart shape cutter would leave less oddbits to gobble ?! Do need to leave in fridge overnight. Totally scrummy!

fssc1

fssc1 19 December 2008 08:39

I didn't think this looked very appetising but I wanted to make something christmassy. I chilled mine overnight and didn't have a large enough metal star cutter, so instead cut it easily into squares. Diamonds would look good too. Everyone loved this, including me and lots of children. A definite hit and one I will be sure to make again. One teenager even asked for the recipe.

belsull

belsull 18 December 2008 13:46

This looked delightful on the card, but was a real effort for not a great result. I chilled these for about 3 hours, but it would not set hard enought to cut these stars out, so then put them in the freezer. It was a devil of a job trying to get these off the baking parchment and it created a lot of leftovers (which I used in a cookie batch). I wouldn't bother with this one!!

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Nutritional Info

Typical values per serving:
Energy 244.0kcal
Sugars 20.8g
Fat 15.8g
Saturated Fat 7.2g
Salt 0.1g

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This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in December 2008