Chocolate Medallions
Recipe: Chocolate Medallions
Chocolate Medallions are fun, quick and easy sweet candy or confection to enjoy. One medallion is enough to take care of your craving for something sweet. I like making these medallions as I am able to add a variety of dried fruits, seeds and nuts.
Why Chocolate Medallions?
- Kids can help to make them. A fun project.
- Use the chocolate of your choice, dark, milk, white or a mixture.
- Add toppings of your choice.
- Healthy as you can have a controlled portion of chocolate along with dried fruits, seeds and nuts.
- Ideal for gifting.
- Better than ready made chocolates like Mars, Kitkat, Snicker, etc as they are just too sweet.
- Easy to make so you can make a fresh batch within 20 minutes. It also does not take too long to set.
Sharing Chocolate Medallions With Sunday Funday Group
Sundays come so quickly, image now its fall time, soon it will be Diwali followed by Christmas and the year ends. Karen who blogs at Karen’s Kitchen Stories suggested we prepare some candy or a dessert that has some candy. When it comes to candy I am not the hard boiled sweets, toffee or gummy person. I love chocolate and fizzy joy of love hearts by Swizzels Matlow. The latter is not easily available everywhere. Therefore, enjoy it whenever I go to UK. Hubby insisted that I make M&M cookies but I am leaving that for Christmas time.
Memories
I had made Chocolate Medallions for the first time way back on 27/06/2016. I had shared the recipe with the group FoodieMonday/ Blophop. The 46th theme was dry fruits. We had to use dry fruits or rather dried fruits to make a sweet or savoury dish. The first thing that came to my mind was cookies or muffins.
Visit To Montreal – Had A Great Time With My Son
We arrived in Montreal on 20th June. And it is so hot here. Coming from Mombasa, we didn’t want the hot weather. However, it is excellent weather for the Canadians after the long cold winter. It just gets too hot to switch on the oven so the idea of baking was thrown out of the window. A trip to the local supermarket to check buy some dried fruits was a surprise for me. I went with the intentions of buying either dried cranberries, blueberries or raisins. Imagine the surprise when I saw a mixture of dried banana, pineapple, kiwi and mango along with some cranberries. Bought that packet. After two days the idea of using the dried fruits for chocolate came to my mind. And viola in spite of the hot weather made some chocolate medallions. They didn’t last for too long, hubby and my son finished them in 2 days. Had to make another batch.
Evenings With My Son
Most evenings we would walk to either to the restaurant or for some ice cream. Evenings tend to get cooler and lots of people still out in the parks, restaurants, on the streets. All enjoying the long daylight time.
Fast forward to 2024, we now live in Canada. I so enjoy the different seasons, love fall and winter. Don’t care too much for spring as in Canada it is still cold and tends to rain a lot. Summers, well I still find them too hot. So I avoid getting out between 10 am to 5pm. Hubby and I go for walks either early in the morning or in the evenings when it is much cooler.
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Ingredients Required For Chocolate Medallions
Chocolate
Dried Fruits
Any dried fruits of your choice. Can use one type or a mixture. You can also opt to make medallions with one type of dried fruit. I like to use a mixture. Generally, 1 tbsp each of chopped dried fruits is enough. I have used dried mango, pineapple, banana slices, cranberries, kiwi and coconut slices.
Nuts
Can add some or leave them out. We love nuts so I add chopped walnuts, almonds , hazelnuts, pistachios, peanuts, etc. Depends on what I have in the pantry. About 1 -2 tbsp of chopped nuts is enough.
Seeds
Add seeds if you like. I like to add pumpkin, sesame and sunflower seeds. Depends on what I have in the pantry.
Watch How To Make Chocolate Medallions
CHOCOLATE MEDALLIONS
Ingredients
- 200 g dark chocolate chips
- 1 tbsp each of dried mango kiwi, pineapple, cranberries and banana slices
- 1 tbsp almond slivers
- 1 tsp pistachio slivers
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
- 2-3 dried rose optional
Instructions
- Take a parchment paper about 12"X 8". Using a round small lid draw circles on the paper. I used a 2" inch lid. Turn the paper and tape the edges with sellotape to a tray or work board. The circles are your guidelines.
- Keep whatever dried fruits, nuts and seeds you are going to use. I used dried banana slices, mango, cranberries, kiwi and pineapple. I added sesame and pumpkin seeds. Also added some almond and pistachio slivers.
- Melt chocolate either over boiling water or in the microwave oven.
- To melt chocolate over boiling water,put chocolate chips in a small heatproof bowl. Heat the water in a saucepan. Place the bowl in the pan, it should not touch the water. So make sure it sits at the rim of the pan. Mix the chocolate with a spoon. The steam from the hot water will melt the chocolate.
- To melt it in the microwave oven, put the chocolate chips in a microwavable container. Heat for 40 seconds. Remove the container from the microwave oven and mix the chocolate chips. Return the container into the microwave oven and heat further for 15-20 seconds. Mix well. The time required to melt the chocolate will depend on your microwave oven. Mine gets melted in 1:15 seconds.
- Put a tablespoon of the melted chocolate on one of the traced circle. Spread it out a bit. Repeat till the melted chocolate is over.
- I put each fruit, nuts and a sprinkle of seeds on each medallion so that each piece has an equal amount of fruit, nut and seeds.
- Put the medallions with the tray or board in the fridge till the chocolate sets.
- Or you can use small silicon muffin cups. Add about a tablespoon or two of the melted chocolate. Add the toppings. Allow the chocolate to set in the fridge.
- Remove the medallions from the paper or muffin cups. Store in a container in the fridge till required. Believe me, cold chocolate medallions taste so much better than the room temperature ones.
Notes
- I haven't give the exact measurements of the dried fruits, nuts and seeds as the amount required depends on the type of fruits, nuts and seeds you use.
- You can add any fruits, nuts and seeds of your choice.
- Use a mixture of dark, milk and white chocolate.
- Use white chocolate instead of dark and milk chocolate.
The number of medallions you get will depend on the diameter of the circle.
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24 Comments
alkajena
June 28, 2016 at 2:15 am
These looks so tempting
Pushpita Singh
June 28, 2016 at 6:08 am
Minimal ingredients yet tempting medallions' recipe share Di!
Sujata Roy
June 28, 2016 at 9:26 am
Healthy share. Looks so tempting Mayuri 😊
Mayuri Patel
June 28, 2016 at 4:21 pm
Thanks Alka
Mayuri Patel
June 28, 2016 at 4:22 pm
So true Pushpita and hardly took any time.
Mayuri Patel
June 28, 2016 at 4:23 pm
Thanks Suajata. The charming thing about this recipe is that one can choose what type of chocolate, fruits, nuts and seeds one wants to use.
Saswati Hota
June 28, 2016 at 6:03 pm
Super inviting medallions Dee 😊👌🏻
Shobha
June 28, 2016 at 9:36 pm
Wow.. these look gorgeous.. definitely a kids delight !
Nisa@ Flavour Diary
June 29, 2016 at 10:35 am
melt in mouth medallions with dry fruits….delicious
linsy wayne
June 29, 2016 at 7:56 pm
I made this last year and it was as soon as i put it on plate. love to make it again
Mayuri Patel
July 2, 2016 at 10:32 pm
Thanks Shobha, its even a good treat for adults.
Mayuri Patel
July 2, 2016 at 10:33 pm
Thanks Saswati.
Mayuri Patel
July 2, 2016 at 10:33 pm
Thanks Nisa.
Mayuri Patel
July 2, 2016 at 10:34 pm
I made them for the first time Linsy and loved them. Thinking of making them again. Its a great way to control the portion of chocolate hubby can have:)
Preethi Prasad
July 3, 2016 at 11:26 am
The medallions look so tempting. I am sure my kids will love it.Bookmarking it.Thanks for recipe.
Karen’s Kitchen Stories
September 15, 2024 at 11:53 am
These are super pretty! It’s interesting that Canada gets so hot in the summer! I did visit Toronto once and it was in the 90s, which surprised me.
mayurisjikoni
September 17, 2024 at 12:22 am
Thanks Karen. We do have short summers but they can get really hot. A bit exhausting if you spend too much time outdoors.
Camilla Mann
September 15, 2024 at 1:20 pm
These are SO pretty. I can’t wait to try this, Mayuri.
mayurisjikoni
September 17, 2024 at 12:20 am
Thank you so much Camilla. Enjoy when you make the chocolate medallions.
Sneha Datar
September 18, 2024 at 10:41 am
A perfect treat for chocolate lovers!
mayurisjikoni
September 20, 2024 at 10:32 am
Thanks Sneha, it definitely is.
Wendy Klik
September 20, 2024 at 8:01 am
They are like little, individual, chocolate barks. Love this idea.
mayurisjikoni
September 20, 2024 at 10:25 am
They are Wendy, like to make them for Diwali and Christmas Parties.
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