Bajadera (Bah-ya-deh-ra) is a famous chocolate praline created by the Kraš confectionery company in ex-Yugoslavia, now Croatia. Yugoslavia did not survive as a country, but a recipe for home-made Bajadera is still widely popular across the ex-Yugoslavian territories – Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Macedonia. Making Bajadera at home is a lot of fun, it is a relatively simple no-bake desert, based on a nougat paste from ground nuts, chocolate, cookies, sugar syrup and butter. Needles to say, there are as many Bajadera recipes as there are cooks in the Balkans. Below is a version that my family used for years. And in case you are wondering, the real thing can nowadays be purchased on Amazon, see http://www.amazon.com/Kras-Bajadera-Nougat-Dessert-500g/dp/B000LQNB72.

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