Playing with the ingredients for the basic dough and fillings is fun, and if you follow a few basic principles, you will certainly succeed in creating great color and flavor variations. During December, we will bring you tried and tested recipes for four of our most successful pieces.
What can you look forward to?
Traditional wasp’s nests: sponge cake, cocoa and eggnog
The basis of mass on the traditional wasp nests usually consists of sponge crumbs with I poopbutter and sugar. In some families, finely ground nuts, a few spoonfuls of milk (or rum) for moistening, or egg white are also added. If you have a proven recipe, there is no reason to change it. If you are still looking for the right one, you can try one of ours.
But it doesn’t have to be just cookies and cocoa. For the base of the mass, you can use broken and unsuccessful leftovers of cookies, or almost any kind of cookies or gingerbread for grating. The principle is the same: allowed butter is whipped with sugar and other ingredients, biscuit crumbs are added and the mixture is left to sit. You can mix in it different types of nuts, almonds, coconut and even poppy. Use condensed milk, nut butter or your favorite liqueur to moisturize.
Tip: If you start experimenting, you may find it useful to know that for 25 wasp nests you will need approximately 150 g of biscuits, 30-60 g of nuts, almonds or coconut and about 120 g of butter. Save with sugar, a spoonful is often enough.
Don’t be afraid to experiment with the filling
For 25 wasps’ nests, you will need a filling bottle. It can be traditional thick eggnogbutter beaten with egg yolk, a little sugar and rum, but you can also use the rest of the cream from stuffed nuts or any favorite denser filling. You can try lemon curd and this year citrus jelly worked for me. Cream of caramel condensed milk and butter also works well.
All errors can be corrected
Unbaked cookies have the great advantage that they can be easily “fixed”. Does the material crumble too much? Add a spoonful of butter or milk. Too sticky? Another handful of cookie crumbs will do. Wasp nests can’t be knocked out of molds? Roll them into balls. The result will always be great.
