EntranceCoconut sweets. Braid candies with nuts
Compound:
- Cottage cheese - 200 grams
- Powdered sugar - 50 grams
- Coconut flakes - 100 grams for sweets, and 50 grams for rolling candies.
Cottage cheese sweets with coconut flakes look like Raffaello sweets. But they have one thing in common - this is coconut flakes.
I found a lot of homemade candy recipes on the Internet, but I liked this one because they are very easy to prepare. Time spent no more than 15 minutes, minimum effort, and relatives will be delighted with sweets. In addition, these sweets are light and useful. They don't need to be cooked. butter, condensed milk and chocolate. All you need is cottage cheese, powdered sugar and coconut flakes.
Sometimes you can’t force children to eat cottage cheese, which is necessary for their growth, and cottage cheese and coconut sweets are a great solution for young mothers. The kids will enjoy eating them. By the way, you can add prunes or nuts filling to sweets, to your taste.
Homemade candy recipe:
1. The powder, along with coconut flakes, needs to be crushed a little in a blender.
2. Cottage cheese also grind in a blender (separately from coconut flakes with sugar) and beat a little.
3. Then mix powdered sugar and coconut flakes mixed with cottage cheese chopped in a blender.
It turns out here is such a mass.
4. Now you need to mold small balls with your hands.
5. Then roll the molded coconut balls in coconut flakes.
6. These are the candies with coconut flakes we got.
Enjoy your meal! Enjoy sweet and healthy yummy with the whole family!
Perhaps there is no easier candy to make. Plus, they're pretty, pretty dressy looking, and taste like a Bounty, even though they're completely devoid of chocolate.
Candies with coconut, similar to Raffaello, are nutritious and sweet. Also - a delicate aroma of vanilla, a nut (hazelnuts are used here, but almonds can also be used), and it's ready delicious dessert with a surprise for romantic dinner by candlelight. On the Day of St. Valentine, for example.
The portion is designed for 12-15 sweets. Cooking time: 80 min.
Ingredients
- butter - 15 g
- condensed milk - 120 g
- coconut flakes - 65 g
- hazelnuts for filling - 12-15 pcs.
- vanillin - ½ sachet or vanilla essence - a few drops
- for decoration - paper baskets
Cooking
Melt the butter over low heat without boiling.
Add the condensed milk to the hot melted butter and stir until smooth.
In a creamy condensed mass, add 65 g of coconut flakes, half a bag of vanilla or a few drops of vanilla essence.
Mix all ingredients well. Put the resulting mass in the refrigerator for 40-60 minutes. Then, when the mass hardens a little, it is necessary to quickly fashion sweets until it starts to stick to your hands.
Advice: so that your hands do not stick, you can wipe them with vegetable oil.
Sprinkle coconut on the table. Using a measuring spoon to get the candies of the same size, form a ball.
Then crush it, insert a nut into the middle and connect the edges, forming a ball again. Roll it in coconut flakes. Repeat procedure.
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 dates for 20 minutes in water 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 cook homemade diet candy.
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 covered surface cling film lay out homemade diet sweets from coconut flakes.
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!
Homemade Coconut and Date Candies
Ingredients:
Dates - 150-200 gr;
Coconut flakes from one coconut;
Sesame - about 6-7 tablespoons.
First you need to prepare the coconut flakes, for this we rub the contents of one on a fine grater. You can see how to open a coconut easily and safely here.
After the coconut flakes are ready, we start dates. Mine, let dry a little, remove the bones and put in a small saucepan or stewpan.
Add a little water and put on a small fire. The goal is to get soft homogeneous mass You can use a spoon or spatula. If the dates are soft, then the mass is ready in a couple of minutes. Then let it cool down a bit.
Add coconut flakes to it and mix everything thoroughly.
The resulting mass can be removed in the refrigerator for a while, so it will be better molded.
Fry the required amount of sesame seeds in a pan or in the oven until a light golden hue, let cool. Pour the sesame seeds into a small bowl.
Let's start forming balls. To do this, simply take a little candy mass with your fingertips and form a small ball, then put it in a container with sesame seeds, where we roll it from all sides.
These are some amazing candies!
