Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Bounty-like Coconut Sweets



Now here's a discovery! Before the last Christmas I decided to bake something for my family and friends. Of course, there were the gingerbreads, but I decided to make something more interesting! So I came up with this recipe the picture of which made me sure of my sweet presents! ;)

For around 50 coconut sweets, we'll need:
50g butter, unsalted
85g sugar
200g double cream
200g coconut shavings

For the glaze:
200g dark or white chocolate (I used dark, containing ~60% cocoa)
25g butter

1. In a pot, mix the butter, sugar and double cream. Heat it until boiling and boil it for 5 min.
2. Put in the cocoa shavings and mix everything well.
3. Poor the mass onto baking paper and wait until it cools down. Cut the mass into squares (as square, as possible, but if you don't get good squares, don't worry - the more various the sweets will be the better. But the thing is to make all the pieces quite hard so that it is easy for you to use them later).
4. On a low heat, melt the butter and chocolate (melt the chocolate separately - in a bowl above another bowl filled with boiling water... In this way your chocolate won't burn).
5. With your fingers or, if the sweets are hard enough - with a wooden pin, take the white sweets and put them into the mixture of chocolate and butter. Let them roll around! :D Do it one sweet at a time.
6. Put the sweets onto the baking paper and leave them to get cool. When they get cool, put them into the fridge to get even colder - they'll get even tastier!

Bon appetit! :)

Source: a book Gardžios dovanos (Tasty gifts) of the magazine Mano namai (My Home), Lithuania.

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