Coconut, Coffee & Chocolate Balls

I'm still trying to find my way around blogging and this site, and I'm still trying to write a 3000 word essay on death on three texts (bluh!), so please bear with me if I'm posting these recipes a little slowly. I'll get there, promise. In the meantime, I made these for you.

If you could smell pictures, then oh boy! Picture courtesy of ma mamma.

These little treats are just a whole new kind of delicious, and there isn't an oven in sight. They're another Swedish treat that combines coffee, chocolate, vanilla and coconut. Thank you Sweden! They are so easy it's unreal, so, have a go, go ooooon. I may have gone for a swim earlier and eaten A LOT of these afterwards, or not.

Delicious goo.

They're not pretty yet, but just wait!

Just too pretty, another one courtesy of me mam! Here's to pretending it's summer!

This recipe reminds me of summer, my brother and I eat a ton of these every time we visit our grandparents in Sweden. My brother in particular can work his way through several packets in a couple of days! I've used guess work to try and replicate the recipe a couple of times, they're not quite the same, but still pretty good I'd like to think!

If you want to try the real thing, then the ones from Ikea are pretty good!

Also, if you're wanting to make cake pops, whack a lolly stick in each one before you dip it in the chocolate, but that's where it starts getting too complicated for me!

Here comes the recipe....

Coconut, Chocolate & Coffee Balls

Ingredients

Makes about 27 balls.

2 3/4 cups oats (2 cups will need to be blitzed in the food processor and the 3/4 held back)
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 1/4 cups butter
1/4 cup chocolate powder

2 tsp coffee granules, diluted with 3 tsp hot water
tsp vanilla extract, or half pod vanilla pod, seeds scraped out
2 cups desicated coconut
250g chocolate

1. Blitz 2 cups of the oats in a food processor, till there are no more whole oats, though you don't want it like flour either!

2. Melt the butter and add to the oats.
3. Add the sugar, coffee, chocolate powder and vanilla and the 3/4 cups oats and mix until combined and looks like the picture above. If it is too wet, add more oats, too dry, more butter.
4. Roll into walnut sized balls and put on a sheet of greaseproof paper and leave in the fridge to set for 1 hour.
5. Melt the chocolate and allow to cool slightly, pour the coconut onto a chopping board, then, using barbeque tongs dip each ball into the chocolate until it is completely covered and roll in the coconut.
6. Return to the greaseproof paper and leave until the chocolate has set, enjoy with a strong coffee!

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