Shakin & Bakin Foodie Blog: Easy Coconut Balls

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Easy Coconut Balls - Cookies Recipe

If you are looking for an easy recipe and enjoy coconut, you will like this one! My husband absolutely loves coconut so he loves these cookies when I make them for him. They are also a big seller at my daughter's holiday school bake sale.

Coconut Balls (Cookies) Recipe

2 lbs. confectioners' sugar
14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup margarine, softened
10 oz. flaked coconut
1/8 tsp. salt
1/2 cup pecans, chopped
12 oz. chocolate chips
2 Tbsp. parafin wax
additional coconut for topping

Melt butter in a large saucepan and add milk. Stir in the sugar and salt. Add coconut and chopped pecans; chill for 1 hour. Remove from refrigerator and form dough into small balls. Insert a toothpick into each ball and freeze for 1 hour. Melt chocolate chips and parafin in a double boiler. Dip each ball in melted chocolate mixture and set on waxed paper or a nonstick silicone mat. Wait 30 seconds and sprinkle additional coconut on balls. Remove toothpick and let balls cool. Store in an airtight container.