Coconut truffles recipe

So, the other day I was just surfing the Internet and wandering around and didn’t really know what to do, I was just looking at those blogs and pictures and stuff like that and whichever I liked I just opened the link and saw what there was written and things like that, you know. I really like looking at those recipes that have great pictures in them and are very short and detailed, at the same time. I especially like dessert recipes, not because that I can prepare desserts better than the usual dishes, but because they look really delicious and beautiful and stuff like that, I’m sure you will agree with me on that.

So, then was when I saw a recipe for coconut truffles, which looked so amazing that I couldn’t just ignore them and not open the link and even if I didn’t read the article, I would just look at those pretty pictures and enjoy them. Well, the pictures were really real and natural and I just wanted to have those truffles with me at that time to eat them. Then I read the recipe. To be honest, the blogger had a great article about them, I mean, she had that thing, where you just write the ingredients and then the preparation method and everyone can see them just very easily, and, of course, she had other things written, too, as it was a blog and not a special recipe page, but it was written just fine and everything was on their places, so that everyone could find what they wanted there. And the thing I wanted was the ingredients list and the method of how to prepare the truffles. All the ingredients were acceptable and the preparation method was not very difficult, too, and that was when I realized that I could do that truffles and make myself and others happy. I thought for a long time, when I could prepare them, so that others could eat them, too, and, of course, I had to be free, I mean, I should have a free time to prepare them.

Now, I just had to buy some ingredients, and, despite the fact, that the ingredients were not much, I just had to figure out where to buy them. You know, there are certain places, where you can find certain things and one should know those certain places, because otherwise one can’t get the desired thing. Well, I knew where to buy some of the things. So, I needed chocolate melting chips and good coconut flakes. Once I remember, I wanted to buy some melting chocolate chipsand I bought them and when I tasted them, they were not very delicious and they tasted more like butter, so it was not good and I didn’t really like them and I try not to buy things like that anymore. And, well, while buying you can not really taste them, right? So, it’s kind of impossible to know what kind of chocolate chips you get and whether or not they will be tasty and stuff like that.

Well, I had it all planned, when I would buy some things and prepare the truffles and all the other stuff, and I was pretty happy with my decision, but then something happened. That day was a disaster _ I mean, it was raining cats and dogs and it was all wet outside and you wouldn’t know what to expect next. But since I still had to walk in the rain, because I had to go home from the lectures, it was not a bad idea if I stopped by and buy those ingredients, as they were on the road and stuff. So, I decided that I would do that. I went to the market, where I could buy some coconut. And I wanted to buy coconut oil, too, and I have been wanting to buy coconut oil for some time now, but I have not, so I thought that I would buy it, too. Well, I went to that store and I bought some coconut flakes, they were not expensive and stuff and I asked about the coconut oil and they said to ask that outside in another store, and I also wanted to buy some chocolate melting chips, but it was not the chips they had, but some chocolate balls and I didn’t really know their taste, so I didn’t buy them and I thought that I would buy them in another place, where I bought them some time ago and they were delicious, not the same as the last ones, which were all buttery and stuff like that.

In addition, maybe you would already guess, that I was pretty wet by the time I got home, but I bought all the things I wanted. Although, I had to go to different places, because some of them didn’t have the things that I wanted and I didn’t want to experiment some things and wanted to buy the things that I had already tasted and stuff like that, you know. Well, I was looking forward to tasting my chocolate melting chipsand that condensed milk. I knew this condensed milk would be good, because it always is, but it had been a very long time since I last ate it, so I just really wanted to taste it. And the chocolate chips, well, they would either be good, or not, so I tasted some of them and was pretty satisfied, as they were just fine. So, I had everything that I needed and it was time to get started and prepare some truffles.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups shredded coconut flakes;
• 3 tbs melted butter or margarine;
• 1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk;
• 1/3 cup powdered sugar;
• 2 cups chocolate melting chips;
• Vanilla, 2 packages;
• Cocoa powder (optional).

Preparation process:

Well, the first thing that I did was to collect all the stuff that I needed. So, there were those shredded coconut flakes, condensed milk, vanilla packages, some margarine, chocolate melting chips, powdered sugar and the equipment, I mean, spoons and bowls and other stuff, you know.

First of all, you should know, that it’s better if your coconut flakes are not very small, as mine were pretty small and I realized, it would have been better if they had been a little bigger. But still, they were fine. Also, they were really dry and I should have soaked them for some time or something like that, because I guess that would be better, but I don’t know. Maybe there wouldn’t have been any change. Anyways, it was still good. So, I poured some of those coconut flakes into a bowl and added some powdered sugar to them. I also added those two vanilla packages, each of them were about 10 grams, I guess and mixed them together. Then I added that condensed milk and soaked them for some minutes, until I melted the margarine and until it cold. So then I added it to the mixture and mixed all those things together thoroughly. Well, I also tasted the mixture as I had to know whether it was good or not. And everything seemed just fine. And then the next step was to make cute little ballsout of the mixture. I used that small chocolate spoon to take balls of the same size and them used my hands to shape them well as balls. I used aluminum foil to put the balls on it and it was really helpful. The balls became really pretty and I just had to freeze them for some time. In fact, I put them in the freezer for an hour, so that they would be totally frozen.

So, I just waited for an hour for the coconut balls to be frozen. Well, during that time I did some other things, of course. And then, when the time came, it was time to melt some chocolate chips!

I used a smaller fireproof bowl and a larger one. In a smaller one I poured some water and put it on the gas, and in the larger one I put those chocolate chips and placed it on the smaller one so that the heat would melt the chocolate. Of course, if you have a microwave, you can just put the melting chocolate chips into your microwaveand melt them there for a couple of minutes. And while on the heat of steam, you should stir those chocolate chips until they get all liquidy and stuff and then just take the bowl off from heat and prepare for another step, which is putting those balls into the chocolate and making some truffles!

So, I took my coconut balls out of the freezer and put them into the melted chocolate and just made chocolate coconut balls. You can either use fork to take the coconut balls and get them into the chocolate and then take them out, or just use a spoon or maybe even your hands, whichever is more comfortable. I used everything, if you want to know the truth, because it was my first time preparing those truffles and I kind of wanted them to be perfect and I just couldn’t help myself but to use everything so that they could be pretty and beautiful and stuff like that, you know. And when I took them out and placed them on that aluminum foil, I just took a little bit of coconut flakes and sprinkled on them, so that they would stick on that chocolateuntil it got dry. And they were really beautiful, if you ask me.

There was this another thing: I wanted my chocolate chips to have a taste of milk just like milk chocolate, so when I melted some of them, I just poured some condensed milk in it and then stirred, but then it happened so, that everything became not liquidy, but kind of solid and I couldn’t put those coconut balls into that, because they wouldn’t get that chocolate around them and it would just be a waste of those coconut balls, so I didn’t know what to do. I put some margarine in that mixture and mixed it well, but there was no change really. Then I even added some chocolate chips in hope that it would get liquidy, but in vain. So, I just decided that since it was not as solid and I could shape them in whatever shapes I wanted, I would make some chocolate balls from that mixture and just like those coconut balls, I would roll them into another melted chocolate. And that’s what I did. I wasted so much chocolate on that thing, that there were plenty chocolate balls that I made from it. And what about the melted chocolate?! Well, I made another one with other chocolate chips and, this time, I didn’t add anything else, it was just those chocolate melting chips and everything came out just fine, it was liquid and I could roll those balls in it very easily and do all the things I wanted. So the problem was solves, kind of, and everything seemed to be in a great way.

I should tell you, that I used some cacao powder to roll my chocolate balls in it and it made them really beautiful, too, just like chocolate truffles. There are these truffles bought at grocery stores in paper packs, that are covered with this cacao powder and they are really delicious, so my chocolate balls were like them, you know.

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