They remain three months for Christmas and although in the middle of the Michaelmas summer it seems that snowflakes and reindeer are something from another planet, there are those who are already fertilizing the ground and thinking about the iconic Christmas desserts.
True: in the supermarkets they are already finalizing the arrangement on their shelves of all the chocolates, nougats and marzipans that we will put on our chests and backs this Christmas, now that we are still getting rid of the extra kilos taken on by The Ice creams.
Well, the first to launch this campaign has been Mercadona, with an assortment of nougats that return as a novelty so that its clientele begins to make your mouth water.
But many will wonder who is thinking about buying nougat right now. Well, this launch also allows the company deseasonalize slightly reduce the consumption of these desserts and make the client start having an easy dessert in their hands sooner at any family meal in the 12 weeks left until the big party.
In this way, the Valencian supermarket chain already has bars of Chocolate nougat with Caocream cookie (milk chocolate nougat and cocoa cookies), a 200 gram tablet for 1.95 euros.
This nougat, which imitates the flavor of Oreo cookiesincludes among its ingredients sugar, cocoa cookie (20%) and cocoa butter, among others.
Another novelty to start making mouths is the Nougat cheesecake Farmerwhich comes in a 150-gram tablet and costs 1.90 euros per unit.
It is a white chocolate nougat with powdered cheese and cream flavored with berries, especially designed for lovers of cheesecakeand in full (sustained) boom of this emblematic pastry product.
Peanut with honey and Kinder Bueno
A unique tablet is the Chocolate nougat and fried peanuts with Hacendado honey, which sells for 1.50 euros per 250 gram unit. This proposal raises the fried peanuts with honey to its maximum expression.
Another strong bet is the Hazelnut Hazelnut Hazelnut Hazelnut Hazelnut Chocolate Nougatwhich is an imitation of the flavor of candy bars Kindergarten Good that children and adults like so much.
In this case, Mercadona sells the bars of this milk chocolate nougat with creamy milk filling, hazelnuts and biscuit crispy 140 grams at 1.80 euros per unit.
The classics
He also returns to Mercadona on Hacendado soft nougat typical of these holidays, with 250 gram tablets at 2.60 euros per unit. Made of toasted almond At 66%, this dessert also includes liquid invert sugar, honey, sugar and egg white.
Another classic of the season is the Hacendado hard nougat in containers of 250 grams and 2.60 euros per unit, in this case toasted almonds (63%), sugar, inverted liquid sugar, wafer (the typical white cookie that surrounds them) and egg white.
Finally, the unavoidable Crispy crunchy chocolate nougat (which has been imitating for years Suchard) returns with 250 gram tablets at 1.70 per unit. Lovers of this dessert know that this snack has a nut paste (based on hazelnut and almond) and crunchy cereals among its ingredients.
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As is usual with Hacendado nougats, these tablets are mainly made by the Valencian company, based in Segorbe, Antiu Xixona. Also, among the makers of these desserts is the Alicante company Sanchis Mira.
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