Handmade coconut candy. Homemade Coconut and Date Candies

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Do you want to surprise your friends with something unusual? Or to please the sweet tooth amazing dessert? Then cook coconut candy walnut! Delicate, with a delightful aroma of fresh coconut and creamy taste, they are very similar to the famous Raffaello sweets. But, like any sweets made with your own hands from quality products, these coconut candies will be much tastier and healthier (compared to ready-made ones, of course). And they are prepared with just three ingredients: condensed milk, coconut flakes and butter. Add nuts inside or not - decide according to the situation. Even without the nuts, the candies are delicious!

By the way, you can cook.
In the recipe, the basis of sweets is fresh coconut flakes. Do not be too lazy to buy a coconut (they are sold in any large store) and grate the pulp. How fresh the chips will be depends on how tasty and healthy the sweets will be. After all, the recipe does not use any flavor enhancers or other synthetic additives, which means that you need to take all the best for them. Of course, you can buy dry shavings, but the taste will be different.
Making coconut flakes is very easy. You need to open all three eyes of the coconut and drain the juice. Then split the shell (a hammer will help, the coconut opens easily!), peel the flesh from the brown crust and grate on a fine grater. Once you taste the grated flesh of a fresh coconut, you will never want to buy dried shavings. By the way, it is also natural, but there is nothing useful in it anymore - the chips are dried after they have been used for cooking coconut milk, moreover, wring it out at least three times. So think - is there anything left in it, except light coconut flavor? It can be used for breading sweets, and as the main ingredient it is better to take natural product.

Ingredients:

- fresh coconut - 1 piece (or 200 gr. Coconut flakes);
- any nuts;
- condensed milk - 180 gr (0.5 jars);
- butter - 40 gr;
- coconut flakes for breading - 2-3 tbsp. spoons.

How to cook with a photo step by step

Open the coconut as described above, cut off a thin layer of brown skin with a knife (peel like a potato) and grate the pulp on a fine grater. It is more convenient to divide the coconut pulp into several pieces, so things will go faster.

We take high-quality butter, preferably homemade or with a high percentage of fat content (at least 70%. We put the dishes with butter on water bath, melt.

Pour the condensed milk into the hot oil. Tip: take the best quality condensed milk so that there are no questionable additives in the composition, only whole milk and sugar. If the milk is with an abundance of incomprehensible components, it is unlikely to thicken and give the desired consistency.






Stir milk and butter until both products are combined. Gradually add coconut flakes, mixing it with a viscous mass. Continue heating for a few more minutes to evaporate excess liquid.
After heating and stirring, a rather thick lumpy mass will be obtained. It may not seem thick enough, but after solidification, the density will increase. Cool the workpiece to room temperature, after that we send it to the freezer for one hour. Be sure to cover or tighten with foil.

After freezing, the candy mass will become much denser. We collect about a teaspoon with a slide, make cakes. We put any nuts in the middle (cashews, almonds, hazelnuts).

We wrap the edges on the nuts, roll the balls in the palms. The mass will be sticky, but it does not stick to the palms (there is oil in the composition).






We put the coconut sweets in the freezer for 10-15 minutes so that the oil hardens again. Then roll in coconut flakes - natural, if any, or dried. By the way, dry shavings stick to sweets better and stick to them better. After all the balls are rolled in shavings, we again send the sweets to the freezer for an hour. Then we rearrange into the common chamber of the refrigerator, where they will be until serving.

And here are the finished candies! For a “front” serving, stock up on special corrugated molds for sweets and cakes or put sweets on a beautiful plate. Delicious with a cup of coffee!




Author Elena Litvinenko (Sangina)




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If you have a big sweet tooth, then this homemade candy recipe is just for you. We will prepare delicious coconut sweets, which will be delighted not only by children, but also by adults. The recipe is simple, and if you carefully read and look step by step photo master class, you can easily prepare mega chocolates with coconut for a sweet table. They can be beautifully packaged and presented as a sweet gift for any occasion. Optionally, inside the candy, during formation, you can add a whole nut of almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts or a piece walnut. , prepared with your own hands, are completely safe, since you know their composition.

coconut candy

Please note that for cooking we need heavy cream, above 30%.
Required Ingredients:

Ingredients:

• Chocolate black - 85 g,
• Coconut flakes - 80 g,
• Fatty cream -70 g,
• Butter - 60 g,
• Cocoa powder - 1 tbsp.,
• Nuts - optional.

Cooking process:

Prepare a pot of water. Boil. Place a heat-resistant deep container on top so that the bottom does not touch the water. Pour the cream into the heated bowl. While stirring, heat up to 35 degrees.

Add to warmed cream butter good quality. Stir until the composition is completely dissolved. In no case, do not use margarine, then the sweets will be tasteless.

Use good quality chocolate, black or milk. Chop the chocolate bar into small pieces. Add cocoa powder and chocolate to the creamy mass. Stirring vigorously with a spatula, heat until chocolate is completely melted and cocoa is evenly distributed. You should get a homogeneous, smooth, glossy mass. When the mixture has a uniform color, remove from the water bath.

Let cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally with a spatula. To speed up the process, you can type in a saucepan cold water and lower the bowl with the chocolate mass. Mix with a spatula until cool.

Add half of the coconut to the cooled mass, mix. Shelter cling film and refrigerate until thickened, for a couple of hours.

With a spoon, take a portion of the chocolate mass, press the nut into the center and quickly form a ball with your hands. Dip in coconut flakes. Send to the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.

Coconut candies are ready.

Happy tea! Store homemade sweets in a resealable container in the refrigerator.

Chocolate candies with coconut flakes: a recipe with a photo from Svetlana especially for the Notebook website.

Here is a recipe chocolates with coconut came to my mind. There was just a cream left and it was a pity to throw it away. I decided to make candy out of it. These candies taste like Bounty, but the filling turned out to be even tastier. So let's get started.

We need these products.

We cook as usual semolina: heat milk, add sugar, vanillin, and pour semolina, constantly stirring. When the contents of the pan boil, cook a little more until cooked. Pour the coconut flakes into the hot mixture. Mix in soft butter. Set the cream aside until completely cooled.

We put the finished cream on paper or put it in a rectangular shape covered with paper. We make a layer 1.5-2 cm thick and cut into strips. We send the strips to the freezer for an hour.

Mix cream and chocolate. Melt either in a water bath or in the microwave.

We take out our cream, our sweets and pour them with chocolate. We pour it on each with a spoon, if we want an even layer, then we try not to level the top, only the sides. If there is not enough chocolate the first time, then pour again. You can also just dip the candy in chocolate, but I liked to water it more.

These are the ones I got at home chocolate sweets with coconut, put them to freeze in the freezer, not for long. Enjoy your meal!

Most people love sweets! I don’t know about you, but I just consider myself to be this most sweet tooth) At the same time, people usually strongly associate sweets with something harmful and forbidden. You need to at least limit yourself in their use, and it is better to completely refuse, which of course requires hellish efforts of the will! Personally, I am not a supporter of such artificial restrictions in nutrition or in other areas of life.

Rather than constantly exhausting yourself with prohibitions, it’s better to figure out once carefully what exactly this or that product is harmful and how useful it can be replaced. For me personally, the knowledge of what specific destructive processes occur inside my body when I eat chocolate bar or another harmful product, allows me to consciously and calmly refuse these nasty things. Indeed, in my mind, they move from the category of "food" to the category of "poisons".

The most beautiful thing is that there are a bunch healthy sweets that will not harm your health in any way. For example, homemade sweets based on dates. 'Cause they don't have sugar fatty oils and especially artificial additives and obscure chemical ingredients. Everything is only the most useful and natural.

I have posted the recipe on this site before. Be sure to try making these sweets, they are my favorite! Today I want to tell you how to make delicious coconut sweets.

We only need three ingredients:

Coconut - 1 pc.

Dates - 20-30 pcs. depending on the size. The ratio of dates to coconut pulp should be approximately 1:1.

Dry coconut flakes (for sprinkling) - a few tablespoons.

I'll tell you a little about how to choose the right dates. In markets and shops, dates are most often sold in sticky sugar syrup. I try not to buy these. Read about how dried fruits are processed and how to distinguish natural dates from chemical ones. I really like Iranian Kaspiran dates. They are sold in small boxes weighing 600 grams. These are:

They are not processed by anything and are very soft and tender in texture. They look like this:

So, how to make coconut candy:

1. Soak the dates for 20 minutes in water at room temperature. Remove the bones before soaking. If these are dates of the Kaspiran variety, which I wrote about above, then they do not need to be soaked, since they themselves are super soft.

2. When the dates become soft, they need to be ground into a thick, homogeneous gruel. This can be done with a blender, meat grinder or grinder. In the case of soft Kaspiran dates, you just need to mash them with a fork! Right along with the skin, although if you get confused, you can remove the skin from each date. I do not do this.

3. We open the coconut. See my separate article. If you read the article and did it right, you should end up with two neat halves of coconut meat.

As a result, you will get these headings - date pulp and grated coconut:

5. Mix dates with coconut. You should get a fairly dense, thick mass.

6. From this mass we sculpt small balls with our hands. This is done simply - by rolling the ball in the palms of your hands until it becomes smooth and round. Then it remains only to roll the resulting balls in dry coconut flakes. The fresh shredded coconut you grated is not good for sprinkling, as it is not dry. Dry shavings can be bought in a store or on the market. Or you can make your own by drying fresh coconut flesh in the oven or dehydrator. By the way, you can add purchased dry coconut flakes to the sweets themselves, it's much easier. But the taste of sweets will not be so delicate.

That's it, delicious coconut sweets are ready! It is better to put them in the refrigerator for a while. There they finally “grab” and become especially tasty. These sweets are very delicate in taste, literally melt in your mouth) Be sure to try it!

Enjoy your meal! Treat yourself to healthy vegan treats!

Recipes with few ingredients are always attractive for their simplicity. And if the components are also interchangeable, useful, and very popular with children? Agree that these are good reasons to make homemade diet candies.

Homemade diet sweets:

Ah, candy! This is a pain point for the sweet tooth on a diet. We offer step by step recipe homemade candies made from coconut flakes: two-colored with a pleasant coconut-chocolate taste and delicate texture.

Don't worry about your figure - each candy contains only 37.1 kcal. In addition, sweets are low.

So, let's begin?

Ingredients:

• coconut flakes - 50 g
• cocoa - 1 tbsp. l.
• almond flour - 1 tbsp. l.
• agave syrup - 1 tbsp. l.
• for powder - a mixture of coconut flakes, lemon peel and turmeric.

Cooking healthy diet sweets without baking

In a coffee grinder or chopper (a blender will not work), grind the coconut to a wet-sticky state. With stops, shaking the cup after 1-2 seconds.

Spoon periodically stir the mass, removing it from the walls to the center.

Grind to a semi-liquid paste-like state until it stands out. By the way, do not be afraid of the fat contained in coconut, it is very useful!

Put the pasta into a bowl. Add 1 tbsp. l. agave syrup. Alternatively, you can choose maple syrup, Jerusalem artichoke syrup or honey. True, the latter has a rather high glycemic index, take this into account.

The resulting paste is divided into 2 equal parts.

In one - add 1 tbsp. l. almond flour. Instead, you can use almonds, ground in a coffee grinder or powdered milk, which, together with coconut flakes, gives the sweets the taste of "Raffaello". Thoroughly grind the "white porridge".

In the other half of the mass, add 1 tbsp. l. cocoa. (We use carob, as these candies are made for children).

The resulting mass is no longer sticky, it crumbles.

Two bases for homemade sweets are ready.

We form homemade diet sweets.

Half-fill a semi-circular measuring spoon (7.5 mg) with white mass, tamping well with your thumbs so that coconut oil comes out.

We put a dark base on top and again, press well.

We press on one edge of the candy, and it leaves the mold itself.

On a plate or on a surface covered with cling film, lay out homemade diet coconut candies.

To prepare a beautiful topping, use a mixture of 25 g coconut flakes, the zest of half a small lemon and a pinch of turmeric and in a coffee grinder whack-whack.

Put the finished sweets in the cold (not in the freezer) to harden for 3 hours.

It turns out 9-10 diet sweets. Cooking time 20-25 minutes.

Need more - increase the serving!