Apricot Coconut Balls

"Great served after dinner with coffee, or with a picnic. Great as a gift with home made rum balls at Christmas time. Can be made up to 2 weeks ahead and stored in airtight container in refrigerator."
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
7
Yields:
40 balls
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ingredients

  • 250 g dried apricots, finely chopped
  • 2 tablespoons brandy or 2 tablespoons orange juice, if preferred
  • 12 cup cream
  • 250 g white chocolate chips
  • 14 cup packaged ground almonds
  • 1 cup plain sweet biscuit crumbs
  • 12 cup coconut
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directions

  • Combine apricots and brandy or orange juice in a bowl, stand for 10 minutes.
  • Place cream in a small pan, bring to boil, remove from heat.
  • Add white melts, stir until melted.
  • Add undrained apricots, almonds and biscuit crumbs; mix well.
  • Refrigerate mixture until firm enough to handle.
  • Roll 2 level teaspoons of mixture into balls, toss in coconut.
  • Refrigerate until serving.

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Reviews

  1. This is simple and delicious!! I misread the recipe and added the 1/2 cup coconut into the mix and ten rolled the balls in additional cocnut, but worked fine!! Am thinking I should not have made these 4 sleeps before Xmas, might have to make another batch for Xmas day!!!
     
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