Many are the homes in which when the end of Christmas is coming, we still have the furniture in our kitchens full of mantecados, nougats and Christmas products that we have left over for another year. It is true that these types of products tend to endure a lot, but if you want to end them as soon as possible so that next year you will not have old products again, from Dulces La Ponderosa we suggest that you innovate in the kitchen with our recipes with leftover polvorones.

Polvorones sponge cake

For those who love pastries, this polvorones cake will not resist you either because of its flavor, or because of how simple it is to make, you just have to know the ingredients, the instructions for use follow the steps of making any cake. We tell you:

Ingredients

• 150 gr of polvorones (homemade). If you prefer to make it with lemon, chocolate … you can play with the flavor of the polvorones.
• baking powder
• Powdered sugar
• Butter
• Two eggs

Elaboration

• Prepare the mixture, the polvorones, half an envelope of yeast, 30 g of previously melted butter, two eggs and a couple of tablespoons of icing sugar, in a large container
• We stir everything until there is a homogeneous mass.
• We place butter on the mold, to prevent it from sticking and pour the dough
• With the oven preheated to 200º, we introduce our sponge cake for about 10 minutes
• When the dough begins to take shape, once the time has passed, we lower the temperature to 180º and let it bake for another 40 minutes until golden.
• We put the cake in the refrigerator and let it cool down for a while

Nougat flan

If you tried to make our nougat cookies because you are a fan of this Christmas product, prepare this delicious fresh nougat flan to make a different dessert for a special occasion.

Ingredients

• Half a tablet of nougat to taste
• 4 eggs
• Half a liter of skim milk
• Sugar
• Liquid candy

Elaboration

• Put the nougat tablet, the four eggs, half a liter of skim milk and two tablespoons of sugar in the bowl of the mixer
• We grind everything to form the mixture
• Place the liquid caramel in the bottom of the molds and pour the content
• Bake in a bain-marie for half an hour at 180º
• Let cool for a day so that the flan takes consistency and the right temperature to serve it.

With the nougat you can also make other desserts such as nougat pudding, mouse, ice cream, cookies …

Nougat cookies

Another recipe whose degree of difficulty is minimal, decorate your table with different cookies made from those nougat pastries that were not finished eating at Christmas. If you have children, you can take the opportunity to prepare a fun cooking afternoon with the little ones in the house, preparing these delicious cookies.

Ingredients

• 50 grams of butter
• 50 grams of sugar
• A soft nougat tablet
• 100 grams of flour
• Two eggs

Elaboration

• Soften the butter in a saucepan over low heat
• In a bowl we mix the butter, the sugar, the nougat tablet and the flour
• When we have all those ingredients mixed we add the two beaten eggs and mix
• We let the dough rest for an hour so that it hardens a little and we can give our cookies gorma
• On a surface with flour we pour the dough and knead to later cut them, here we can use fun molds to give a different touch to our cookies
• We put the cookies in the oven between 5 and 10 min at 150º and that’s it!

Marzipan mousse

To make this great dessert based on leftover marzipan if we need to have a little more skill in the kitchen, its preparation consists of some steps that are somewhat more complicated than those carried out in the previous sweets.

Ingredients

• 150 grams of butter
• 100 ml of liquid cream for desserts
• Two eggs

Elaboration

• 1.Mix the marzipan, together with the liquid cream and two egg yolks.
• 2.We mount the whites and incorporate them very carefully>
• 3.Place the mouse in the containers where we are going to serve it and let it cool for two hours.

Can you help us complete this recipe book? If you know another recipe made from leftover Christmas sweets, do not hesitate to tell us, we will update it in this post so that they become many and many more recipes and we create a true recipe book.