Whipping it up Nougat, Nougat is a soft but chewy confection traditionally made using honey, nuts and candied fruit.  We’ve made this recipe using our Whipping It Up Multimix to add an extra depth of flavour.

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Ingredients

• 130g Sugar and Crumbs Velvet Vanilla Whipping It Up 
• 50ml Water 
• 350g Caster Sugar 
• 80ml water
• 2 Tbsp Liquid Glucose
• 340g/12oz Honey
• 150g Dried Fruit/Chocolate/Nuts like Pistachios, Hazelnuts and Almonds
• Colouring – Optional
  

Instructions

 In a clean mixing bowl whisk the whipping it up and 50ml water until thickened.  Then leave on a low whisk whilst you move on to the next stage.

Take two heavy-based pans and in one add the 350g caster sugar, 80ml water and 2 Tbsps of Liquid Glucose. Heat on a medium setting and stir occasionally.

In the 2nd pan add the honey and heat on a medium setting, let both pans heat and using a jam thermometer keep checking the temperatures until the honey is 250F and the sugar is at 300F.

Turn up the speed of the mixer to mix up the vanilla whipping it up.

slowly pour the honey into the bowl (make sure you don’t pour it onto the whisk) and whisk until corporated.

Next pour in the sugar mixture again so that it doesn’t touch the whisk.

Whisk for another few minutes until incorporated and thickened.

Take a baking tray and line it with greaseproof paper spray with grease-like vegetable oil lightly.

Take the mixing bowl from the mixer and golf in the nuts, fruit or chocolate depending on what you’re using and also the colouring if using.

Spread the mixture onto the tray to make a square-ish shape that is not too flat.  Add another lightly greased piece of parchment face down onto the nougat, and push down lightly.

Leave to set at room temperature for 4 hours.

Once set slice and wrap individual pieces in parchment paper or place in an airtight container, layering sheets of parchment paper between layers.

Whipping it up Nougat will last for approx 10 days for freshness.

Laura Stafford made the Nougat on our Facebook Live on 18/2/21 you can watch the live video here.