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Dark Chocolate Covered Turkish Delights

Bring something special to the table with this well-loved recipe.

Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
1 hr 15 mins
Total Time
1 hr 45 mins
Servings: 36 chocolates
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Turkish

Ingredients

Sugar Syrup
  • 500 g caster sugar
  • 500 ml water
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
Cornflour Paste
  • 80 g cornflour
  • 300 ml water
  • 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
Flavour, Colour & Decorating
  • 1 tsp vanilla paste or essence
  • 1 to 2 tbsp rose water
  • 2 to 3 drops pink food colouring
  • 225 g dark chocolate (I use Lindt 51%)
  • 50 g white chocolate buttons (I use milky bar buttons)

Instructions

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  1. Prepare your pan: Grease a 6 x 6-inch pan with a little neutral-flavoured oil and line with cling film. Once lined, lightly oil the lining and set aside.
  2. Make the Sugar Syrup: Pour sugar into saucepan, add water and lemon juice. Turn heat to low and stir until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and bring to a boil. Place a sugar thermometer in the saucepan and bring the mixture to 115 °C i.e. the softball stage. Stir frequently. Once you hit the correct temperature, turn heat off.
  3. Make the Cornflour Paste: Mix cornflour, water and cream of tartar in a saucepan over medium heat until it forms a thick paste. Turn heat to low for the addition of sugar syrup.
  4. Add Sugar Syrup to Cornflour Paste: Pour sugar syrup in small batches to cornflour paste and whisk until fully incorporated with no lumps. Then switch to a wooden spoon to stir mixture. Increase heat to high until mixture starts to bubble, then reduce to low and let the mixture gently bubble for approximately 1 hour, stirring frequently throughout this whole process. The mixture will go from a pale to a deep golden colour. The mixture is ready when it leaves the sides of the pan, can be pulled into the middle and is thick enough to see a clear line when you draw a spoon through it. 
  5. Add Flavouring and Colour: When the mixture is thick enough, add the vanilla essence, rose water and food colouring. Stir until fully incorporated. Turn off the heat. 
  6. Set the Turkish Delight: Pour mixture into the lined dish. Using the back of a spoon, spread the mixture into all corners of the dish. Leave uncovered somewhere dry to set overnight. 
  7. Cut the Turkish Delight: Flip the Turkish Delight onto a slightly oiled chopping board and peel off the lining. Take a pizza cutter or knife and oil the blade with a little neutral-flavoured oil and cut the Turkish delight into equal strips (6 strips). Then cut the strips into squares (6 per strip). Once all squares have been cut, move on to preparing the melted chocolate.
  8. Melt the Dark Chocolate: Line a tray with baking parchment in preparation for the chocolate dipped Turkish Delights,Fill a medium-sized saucepan about a quarter full with water and bring to a boil. Then lower heat to simmer. Place a heatproof bowl on top. Make sure it isn’t touching the water and that no steam can escape up the side of the bowl, which can let water droplets into the chocolate.Break chocolate up into small, even pieces and add to the bowl. Simmer gently for 2–3 minutes, until most of the chocolate is melted, stirring a couple of times with a rubber spatula. Turn heat off and allow the chocolate to continue to melt slowly in the residual heat ( 3–5 minutes).
  9. Dip the Turkish Delights: Using a fork, pick one Turkish Delight square up and place in the melted dark chocolate. Move it round with the fork to get fully coated. Lift out using the fork and tap against the edge of the bowl to shake off excess chocolate. Then place the chocolate covered Turkish Delight on the lined tray to set. Repeat process with all the remaining squares. It will take approximately 10 to 20 mins for the chocolate to set.
  10. Melt White Chocolate and Decorate the Turkish Delights: You can either use the same method to melt the white chocolate or use a microwave as it is a smaller amount of chocolate. Place the white chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave in 10 second increments, remove from microwave and stir, and then zap again, if required, in additional 10-second increments. Keep microwaving and stirring each time, until completely melted and smooth. Pour into a small piping bag and pipe thin lines on the Turkish Delight. Leave to set - approx 10 mins then they are ready to eat!