Cake balls in coconut. Coconut Balls - Homemade Candy Recipe

I bring to your attention a homemade recipe for delicious creamy sweets, somewhat reminiscent of the taste of Raffaello and tell you how to cook them at home. Step-by-step photos show in detail and clearly the process of making Coconut Balls, so you will not have any difficulties with their preparation!

Headings:
Preparation time: 1 hour
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Exit: 5 servings

Ingredients for coconut balls

• Cream 33% - 60 ml
• White chocolate - 100 g
• Butter - 30 g
• Wafer cakes - 70 g
• Coconut shavings - 2 tbsp.

Homemade Raffaello Coconut Balls Recipe Step by Step

Take a bar of good quality white chocolate, break it into squares, put it in a saucepan and pour cream into it. On a quiet fire, without bringing to a boil, constantly stirring the chocolate mixture with a spoon, bring it to the dissolution of the chocolate, do not boil.

When the chocolate mass has cooled to room temperature, add a piece of butter to it, which should also be at room temperature, that is, you must put it out of the refrigerator in advance so that it warms up. Beat the cream with a mixer, it is necessary to get a homogeneous smooth mixture.

Take waffle cakes without filling, unsweetened. Crumble them by hand or with a coffee grinder or blender. It is not necessary to grind to a state of flour, large pieces will come across - it's okay. 70 g is approximately six standard rectangular small cakes. I want to note that coconut balls can also be prepared with the addition of whole nut kernels, then you will need to wash the nuts and lightly fry in a pan, after which, if necessary, peel them from the husk or take ready-made roasted nuts.

Now pour the crumbled wafer cakes into a container with cream, mix the mixture with a spoon and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour, so that the cream has time to harden a little, and the wafer crumb swells, which will facilitate the process of forming sweets.

There are many options for their preparation, you can try to cook.

Coconut milk

Coconut water is often confused with coconut milk. Coconut milk is extracted from the pulp, it is white and tastes different from coconut water. This milk is made by strongly crushing the flesh of the coconut and mixing it with water. This white liquid contains many fats and sugars and is used to make sweets and savory sauces. I order it in online stores, as well as coconut flakes.

Coconut oil

For the preparation of confectionery instead of 100 gr. margarine or butter should be used 75 gr. coconut oil. It contains a lot of vitamin E, which contributes to the normal function of reproduction.

In the photo on the right - coconuts, peeled from the top layer.

Coconut oil is very quickly absorbed. It reduces the risk of atherosclerosis and heart disease, cancer and degeneration processes. It has long been noted that coconut oil has a long shelf life, even when opened. This is due to its bactericidal properties. Therefore, it increases resistance to bacterial, viral and fungal infections.

Coconut or, as it is sometimes called, a nut, is actually not a nut, but a drupe, that is, it is a stone fruit similar to a cherry, but larger (15-30 cm). Fruit weight - 1.5-2.5 kg.

Option 1 homemade Raffaello sweets

Coconut flakes, 1/2 pack of butter, creamy vanilla waffles (with cream), ½ cans of condensed milk, 100 gr. almonds, vanilla sugar.

To the softened butter, add condensed milk, 2 pinches of vanilla sugar, 2 tablespoons of coconut flakes. We whisk everything very well. We cover the cream with a lid and put it in the refrigerator for 5-7 hours (the cream should harden well).

From the prepared cream we form small balls. Place an almond in each ball. Roll the ball in waffle crumbs (crush waffles in advance). After in coconut flakes. We put the sweets in the refrigerator for several hours. Serve straight from the refrigerator as they are very delicate and may melt.

Option 2 - with cottage cheese

Cottage cheese 250 g, coconut flakes, sugar 150 g. Mix everything, form balls, roll in coconut and put in the refrigerator for half an hour. You can put a walnut inside.

Healthy coconut cake

Ingredients: almonds, prunes, dates, coconut flakes. Mix, you can layers, roll in coconut.

Coconut balls without eggs

• 100 g butter at room temperature
  200 g flour
  100 g sugar
  50 g coconut flakes
  4 tbsp milk

Knead the butter with flour. Then add the remaining ingredients and knead into a soft dough. Roll into balls and place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees. Approximately 20-25 minutes.

Coconut cake without flour and eggs

300 g sweetened condensed milk

300 g coconut flakes
2 tsp vanilla essence or vanilla sugar

We mix everything. Preheat the oven to 180 g. Line a baking sheet with baking paper, grease with oil.

Spread the mixture with a spoon (you can make balls with your hands) on a baking sheet.

Bake for 10-15 minutes.

Healthy candies with peanuts and coconut

Candies keep in the refrigerator for up to 14 days!

Ingredients: Figs, dates, peanuts, coconut. Mix and form sweets, put in the refrigerator.

Coconut cakes with eggs and sugar

Beat the eggs with sugar in a water bath into a strong foam, remove from the bath, continuing to beat, cool (you can in a bowl of cold water), add coconut. Put on 15-20 min. into the refrigerator.

With two tablespoons form round cakes and put them on a sheet of parchment.

Bake until light brown at T = 150-170 C.

Coconut Cookie Cake

1. Lightly dry the coconut on a baking sheet, let it cool.

2. Beat the whites into a strong foam, so that you can cut with a knife, gradually beat in sugar, cinnamon and confectionery oil.

3. Gently add the coconut flakes to the "egg snow" (do not stir). Using 2 teaspoons, put slides of dough on a baking sheet, put in an oven preheated to 130-150 ° C for 20-25 minutes.

Chocolate Coconut Puff Cakes

For the chocolate base:

100 g butter

1/2 cup sugar (250 ml cup)
1 large egg
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt

For the coconut layer:

2 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
0.5 tsp vanilla extract (or vanillin on the tip of a knife)
1 cup flour
200 g coconut flakes + about 5 cups for sprinkling

Sugar can be reduced - to taste at your discretion. We heat the oven to 220 degrees.

Beat melted butter, sugar, eggs, then add cocoa and flour, gently knead until smooth. Pour the mass into the mold and send it to the oven until the edges begin to lag behind the walls of the mold (for 15-20 minutes). Remove and let cool while you prepare the coconut layer.

Beat eggs with sugar and vanilla, gently fold in flour and coconut flakes. We spread the coconut mass on top of the chocolate layer, level it. Sprinkle coconut on top.

We put in the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes, until the chips turn golden, and the splinter immersed in the cake comes out almost dry.

Cool in the form, then take it out, lifting it by the edges of the foil, and cut into portioned cakes. The bottom layer turns out to be viscous - do not be alarmed, that's how it should be.

Candy recipe "Bounty"

1. Melt butter, cream and sugar over low heat. Remove from heat and add coconut flakes. All this is well mixed.
2. Put all this mass into a form covered with paper and put in the refrigerator for an hour.
3. After that, we cut the sweets and again put them in a cold place, but already at night. If you do not have enough patience, then you can put in the freezer for 2-3 hours.
4. Melt the chocolate: Place small pieces of chocolate in a fireproof bowl and place over a saucepan of boiling water.
5. Take the bars and dip in chocolate ... then leave them on paper and let the chocolate harden. Sweets are ready!

Uhhhh, no, it won’t stick together)) For a long time I haven’t eaten so many sweets at night looking))
I went to a cooking class again living room of Aksinya Blanche- a secret place for girls with powerful energy, delicious tea and sincere conversations.
There they draw and embroider, do oriental dances and yoga, talk with a psychologist and stylist, learn to weave braids and create unearthly beauty flowers from fabric. And, of course, delicious treats!
We already know how or .
This time, the hospitable hostesses of the living room came up with a new project - "Healthy Sweets", the opening of which was the "Sweet Balls" master class.
Now you won’t surprise anyone with proper or separate nutrition, convinced vegetarians have long sighed calmly - they are no longer treated as outlandish animals that eat incomprehensibly what, and in any supermarket there are entire departments with diabetic nutrition, vegetable proteins, fiber, tofu cheese and eggless cookies. Moreover, in our city there are several shops “Lavka useful products” - here you can even find vegetarian sausage and figs distinguish it from the usual meat.
I don’t agitate anyone anywhere, moreover, I myself think that there is nothing tastier than a grilled steak with blood, but very often there are the most harmless dishes on our menu - you just sometimes want meat, and sometimes vegetables))
What about sweet? I knew for sure that in India, for example, there are a lot of different desserts and sweets, but I thought that some special ingredients were needed to prepare them. But it turned out that almost everything can be easily found at home in the kitchen cabinet or in the refrigerator. Well, or not be lazy and take a walk to the store))

So, I'm telling! We rolled cotton balls))
With a minimum set of ingredients and a small amount of them, we prepared several types of sweet balls - so many that 14 adults and not so girls could not eat everything and dragged valuable bundles home - to share with loved ones))
These sweets, by the way, belong to the Vedic cuisine. Oh, just don’t be scared and think that this is some kind of pagan witchcraft - on the contrary, this is a very interesting direction, and even now it is fashionable to clarify between times that you live “according to the Vedas”.
The Vedas believed that the sweet taste works wonders - it calms, makes people smiler and softer. Sweets are not only pleasure, they give strength and satisfy hunger.
Moreover, Vedic sweets differ from ordinary sweets in that they do not make you fat. So, you regale yourself, but you don’t harm the figure and it’s a complete benefit for the soul))

Ekaterina Maksimovna taught us to comprehend the secrets of healthy sweets.
We were all literally amazed by her revelation - 20 years of experience as a technologist at a sausage factory! And then, like a thunderbolt, it was necessary to change everything in life! And the principles of nutrition underwent the first changes - Ekaterina Maksimovna became a vegetarian, but how now to work in her profession? So with the new taste preferences, the work has changed. And then the first vegetarian cafe Gauranga even opened in Abakan, which in Sanskrit means gaura “golden, sparkling, beautiful” and aṅga “body”. Unfortunately, for various reasons, the cafe is now closed, but you can order sweet balls (as well as cakes and dumplings) with delivery - as much as your heart desires! All the details are in a group on Vkontakte, and administrators promptly answer all questions.

It was very interesting to listen to Ekaterina Maksimovna - she talked about sweets with some extraordinary love, shared her favorite brands of products, answered questions with pleasure and was very, very upset by the creative mess on the kitchen table.
“You have to work beautifully!” I was deeply touched by her words.
And she also has unusually beautiful hands - now I will show the process of creating sweet balls - you will see everything for yourself!

First on the list we had sweet balls "Snowball"

Required:

• 250 grams of granular cottage cheese 9%
• 150 grams of powdered sugar
• 250 grams whole milk powder
• boiled condensed milk for stuffing
• walnuts for decoration

Yes, according to the idea, these should be balls, but our work was in full swing so much that the air simply became hot and seemed to crackle. Therefore, our balls turned into cakes, but this did not affect their taste at all!))

Mix cottage cheese, powdered milk and powdered milk until smooth. Cottage cheese is better to choose dry and granular - then it keeps its shape well.
To give strength to future balls, the mass must be put in the refrigerator (not in the freezer) - so that it freezes a little.
The mass is not very sticky - you can take a piece from the bowl with your hands, make a cake, put a little (half a teaspoon) of boiled condensed milk or a nut inside, then gently connect the edges and roll the ball without much fanaticism, because. the mass sticks together well.
Roll the finished ball in coconut flakes.
At this stage, everyone exhaled in unison: “Like Rafaelki!”)))
Put the balls on a plate and put in the refrigerator so that they do not lose their shape. And the top can be decorated with half a walnut.

Cooking is a real art. Our next balls were supposed to be “Energy balls” from Hercules, but we messed up something with the ingredients and instead of Hercules we poured talgan from a different recipe - this is how two completely new types of sweets were born))

Talgan is our typical Khakass product. In short, these are grains of barley or wheat, which are well dried, then fried and then ground into flour (rather coarse grinding). Accordingly, either barley or wheat talgan is obtained. Surely many have seen such packs in local stores. There are 4 recipes on the back.

Surprisingly, talgan does not require any additional heat treatment - a couple of tablespoons of this “flour” can be diluted with a glass of milk, water or tea and get a real energy snack!
You can cook a very tasty and healthy porridge by brewing talgan in boiling water and flavoring it with butter. Talgan is added with ordinary flour to cookies or they make a sweet treat - balls from talgan.

Required:

• 250 grams of talgan (we used wheat)
• 50 grams of sugar
• 25 grams carob or cocoa
• 70 grams coconut flakes
• 5 grams vanilla sugar
• 50 grams of butter
• 100 ml. honey or condensed milk
• walnut kernels for stuffing

Another little-known "beast" in ingredients is carob. Carob is the fruit (seed) from the pods of the carob tree, the seeds are harvested and made into a powder. This is a cocoa substitute - in appearance, color and even smell one to one, only several times sweeter. The main difference is that carob does not contain caffeine, which means it does not have stimulating properties.
Unfortunately, we cannot find such a powder on free sale, but those who deal with spices can bring it on request.

First, mix all the dry ingredients (talgan, regular and vanilla sugar, coconut flakes, carob), and then add butter and honey (or condensed milk if desired).
Stir the mixture well with a spoon until smooth. The readiness of the mass is determined by hand - if the taken lump rolls into a ball and holds its shape well - it's ready.
We form a cake from the mass, put a quarter of a walnut inside and roll it into a ball.
The balls are elastic, dense, and even a little shiny.

milk balls- this is a direct analogue from childhood. Probably many mixed powdered milk (or baby food powder) with condensed milk and enjoyed the sugary-sweet mass.

Required:

• 200 grams whole milk powder
• 1/4 can of condensed milk
• 15 grams butter
• 50 grams of walnut kernels
• 50 grams dried apricots
• water for wetting
• coconut flakes for dipping

Soak walnut kernels for a couple of hours (or better - overnight) in cold water. From this procedure, the nut becomes plastic, does not crumble, and you can easily remove all brown films.
Dip the dried apricots in boiling water for a few minutes - this will remove all the debris and dust, and it will be more convenient to cut.
We chop both nuts and dried apricots into small cubes or straws.
Mix milk powder, butter and condensed milk. We add a little condensed milk to control the density of the mixture, otherwise the balls will not hold their shape. If you still overdo it and the mass spreads - you can put it on a plate, freeze and cut into diamonds.
Add chopped nuts and dried apricots to the mass, mix well and roll the balls - the “dough” should turn out elastic and not sticky.
So that coconut chips stick to the balls, we moisten them in water and roll them, and then put them on a dish.

While we were making balloons, Ekaterina Maksimovna began to tease us with a cake))
Delicious shortcrust pastry cake without eggs. Well, if not instantly, then very quickly, and you can grease the cakes with anything.

Required:

• 500-700 grams of wheat flour
• 200 grams of butter
• 1 cup of sugar
• 0.5 teaspoon soda
• 5 tablespoons 10% sour cream

We mix all the ingredients, divide into 5 parts, roll out and bake the cakes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 5-7 minutes.

While they are still hot and plastic, we cut off all the jagged edges.

Cream can be anything. For example, you can coat the cakes with boiled condensed milk, or mix sour cream with powdered sugar and add slices of banana, kiwi or strawberries. And sprinkle the top with cocoa (or the same carob).

BUT! Not a single good housewife will scatter nishtyaks in the form of scraps from cakes, because you can cook from them sand dough balls- this is the "waste" disposer.

Required:

• shortbread scraps
• 2-3 tablespoons poppy seeds
• 0.5 cans of boiled condensed milk

Grind sand cakes or trimmings from them with a rolling pin or with your hands. It is not necessary to achieve a uniform size of crumbs, when they are larger or smaller, then the texture of the balls turns out to be more interesting.
We add poppy seeds and condensed milk to the crumbs, mix and according to the “old” scheme - we pinch off a piece from the mass, make a cake, hide the nut inside, roll it into a ball.
All the participants said - one to one to taste like the "Anthill" cake!

Although at the very beginning we messed up with the ingredients, we still decided to cook energy balls- from oatmeal and slightly changed the recipe.

Required:

• 250 grams of oatmeal
• 50 grams of sugar
• 25 grams carob
• 100 ml honey or condensed milk
• 70 grams of coconut flakes in the "dough" + for rolling
• walnut kernels for stuffing

Hercules flakes must be fried in advance in a dry frying pan and ground with a coffee grinder, a food processor or a powerful blender (in appearance, this “flour” looks very much like talgan - so we mixed it up).
We mix all the dry ingredients, and then add honey or condensed milk and knead the plastic mass.
We form small cakes, put a nut inside, roll into a ball, and then roll in coconut flakes.
The view is just space! Sweets "Ferero-Rocher" - only incredibly budgetary and confidently dietary!

Yeah, roll delicious balls - this is for you))
Everyone actively took part, it turns out that this is a very exciting process - to knead the mass, and hide the filling inside, and form a ball. Rolling in coconut shavings is a real pleasure.
And with so many hands, we easily prepared several large plates of sweets - it's not difficult, but it looks delicious! Budget friendly and useful!

Well, for a snack - dates with almonds.

Required:

• dates
• almond kernels
• butter

Peel the almonds and soak the kernels for a couple of hours in cold water - it becomes soft, easily peeled off the brown film and completely changes in taste.
Pour boiling water over the dates for a few minutes - firstly, we clean them from dust and debris, and secondly, they soften.
We remove the bones from the dates - in ripe and soaked in boiling water fruits, this is done very quickly. And then we insert the almond kernel in place of the bone. For a more delicate taste, generously grease the almonds with butter.
As it turned out, almonds can be eaten even at night! Hooray!))

Well, then tea! Black, green, fruity, with or without sugar, strong coffee or delicate cappuccino.
And of course the table was bursting with sweets!
Once again I will show all our lovingly prepared balls: cottage cheese "Snezhok", from talgan, dairy with nuts and dried apricots, from shortcrust pastry with poppy seeds, energy balls from oatmeal.

We drank a few liters of tea)) We talked about a million women's topics, asked Ekaterina Maksimovna about her lifestyle, Vedic nutrition and healthy foods, laughed to tears and burst into delicious balls. Yes, right at night! It is said “Useful!”, so we believe and do not get fat))

But to be honest, you can’t eat a lot of such sweets - they are very sweet and satisfying. I hardly took a sample from all types, and also a cake! The girls also ate quickly, and there were so many more things on the plates - they took Hare home - to treat them with useful balls. Fortunately, he doesn’t turn up his nose at any strange or new food (well, except he doesn’t eat capers) and tasted our works to the fullest. Said delicious! Well, it’s still problematic for a man to slip a sweet candy instead of a piece of meat)) So it’s not deceiving, it’s really delicious! They even decided later that it would be nice to make such balls in advance and keep them ready in the refrigerator - obviously better than sweets or a sandwich. I wanted sweets with tea in the evening - here you are!

So no, it won't stick!
Enjoy!