Almond Dragées

Directions

• Combine sugar and water, cook until long-thread stage, remove from heat, add nuts and
  stir until sugar crystallizes.
• Return to heat, stir constantly until sugar melts and caramelizes onto nuts.
• Add butter, stir in quickly, pour out onto marble slab and separate nuts right away. Let
  cool.
• Coat with tempered chocolate in three stages.
• At last stage, add cocoa powder, let set, then sift off excess cocoa powder.