Coconut Kisses Recipe

These Coconut kisses recipes are delicious, but yet quite healthy and easy lunch box snack or great for morning teas with the girls! If you have a food processor, this is really, really easy! If not a little bit of time and effort makes these moments in your mouth treats.

Traditional Coconut Kisses Recipe – with dates

This traditional Christmas coconut ball with their rich sticky date filling, are an absolute delight to eat at anytime of the year, not just as a Christmas sweet treat.

Coconut Kisses Tips

To avoid your hands becoming overly sticky, ensure they are moist when rolling the mixture into balls, it will help form the ball easier and allow the coconut to stick at the same time.
Leave your Coconut Kisses to chill in the fridge as soon as they are coated, you can avoid collapse or the balls flattening.
For a Christmas feel you may want to add preserved or sugared cherries.

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Recipe Serves: 20
Recipe Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

1 large cup of chopped pitted dates
Half a cup of chopped walnuts
Half a cup of chopped almonds
1 tsp of vanilla essence
1 tsp of almond essence
3 tbs of cocoa powder (cheap powder or drinking chocolate will suffice)
Handful of milk chocolate chips if desired

Directions

Chop or process all the ingredients, excluding the chocolate chips (see number 8) and coconut, making sure you have mixed it well.
Put the coconut on to flat plate. You could also roll these in icing sugar or more chopped nuts.
As quickly as you can, roll a small lump of the mixture in the palm of your hand to a ‘mouthful’ sized piece
Roll in the coconut and set aside on a separate plate.
Continue rolling these delicious bites until you have finished.
Store in the fridge or these can be frozen for another time.
If you really want to impress, buy some sweet wrappers and give these away for birthdays or special occasions, maybe in a little chocolate box or organza purse.
If adding the chocolate chips, put these into the processed ingredients and then melt the mixture in the microwave on high for about 30 seconds. Mix well before rolling – but be quick, as your hands will get quite sticky!

Brazilian Coconut Kisses Recipe

– posted by Bridget
This Brazilian coconut delight is known as beijinhos de coco (or little coconut kisses). These beautiful fudgy balls of goodness are made with 4 simple ingredients, they are sweet and perfect for a little something after a meal.

Brazilian Coconut Kisses Tips

You may replace the butter with Coconut butter for a dairy free option
This popular treat is similar to Brigadeiro’s (Brazilian chocolate fudge balls)
You can serve your kisses immediately or store them in an airtight container in the fridge ready when family and friends arrive.
Recipe Serves: 20
Recipe Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

395g can sweet condensed milk
2 cups sweet coconut flakes
2 tbs butter (or coconut butter)
1 tsp of vanilla extract
1 egg yolk (optional) to make the flavour richer and brighter in colour

Directions

Pour the sweet condensed milk into a saucepan and then warm over a low heat, adding a tbs of butter, stir the mixture constantly so it doesn’t burn. Allow the condensed milk to simmer and cook until thickened (or reduced by half).
Once the mixture has thickened, remove it from the heat, keep stirring and add a cup of coconut flakes and the vanilla extract, once it is mixed well set it aside to cool.
Lightly grease a bowl with the remaining butter.
When the fudge is cool enough to handle, transfer it into the bowl and place in the fridge for 1 hour.
Shred the remaining sweet coconut flakes in a blender, when they are finely chopped spread them onto a flat plate.
Once the fudge is considerably firmer and cool throughout, you can remove it from the fridge.
We can now start to form our balls, butter a tbs and use this to scoop out the fudge from the bowl, rolling each scoop firmly with your hands into balls.
Roll the fudge balls into the finely chopped coconut, until they are entirely covered.
You can place your Coconut Kisses into a small paper cady cup or on a desert platter, ready to be served to family and friends.

Puerto Rico Coconut Kisses Recipe

– posted by Adriana
This Puerto Rician coconut desert is known as besitos de coco. This delight is a favourite in the Spanish speaking Carribean islands. With its golden brown, crispy delicious bite size, they are great with coffee for an afternoon recharge, or pack the kid’s lunchboxes for a yummy surprises.

Puerto Rico Coconut Kisses Tips

You may replace the butter with Coconut butter for a dairy free option
You can serve your kisses after they have cooled or store them in an airtight container in the fridge ready when family and friends arrive, all you need to do is drizzle some melted chocolate over the top.
Recipe Serves: 24
Recipe Preparation Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

3 cups of unsweeted coconut flakes
1/2 cup of plain flour
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup unsalted butter
4 large egg yolks
2 tbs of vanilla extract (coconut extract)
100 g of either Dark/Milk/White chocolate

Directions

Preheat your oven to 180C. Grease your large cookie pan or line with baking paper.
In large bowl thoroughly mix the coconut flakes, flour and brown sugar, mix through well.
Add the egg yolks, butter and vanilla extract to the mixture and mix with a wooden spoon until it becomes a sticky consistent dough that can hold its form.
Divide the dough into uniformed balls, roll them using your hands and place them on the cookie pan.
Place the tray into the warm oven and bake for 25 mins, until they are golden brown.
Remove from the oven and let them cool.
Once cool, melt the desired chocolate and drizzle over the top of the coconut kisses.

For more Coconut information, you might be interested in reading this:
Coconut for children

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Coconut Ice Recipe