Tempting Tuesday: trying not to
kill my family with my experimental cooking.
I have discovered an amazing recipe website and I want to make everything on it. I thought I'd start with these, they looked yummy and easy to make (which they were, on both counts).
Ingredients:
30g butter
397g tin of condensed milk
40g cocoa powder
100ml cold water
chopped nuts
Directions:
In a heavy or non-stick pan, melt the butter then add condensed milk.
Bring to a slow boil.
Mix cocoa powder with the water until smooth.
Add this to the pan and stir through.
Bring to a medium boil and keep stirring so it doesn't catch or burn on the bottom.
The recipe says to boil for 15 minutes, but I must have had it on slightly too low, mostly because I was terrified of ruining it. Just keep stirring until its really thick and can hold it's own shape.
Put it into a shallow bowl and chill for 30 minutes in the fridge.
When chilled, mix it up with your hands, it should be like a heavy playdough.
Roll little balls in your hands and cover them with chopped nuts, chocolate sprinkles, coconut, what ever you fancy.
I found that when I went straight into making balls, those made using the outside of the mixture were less sticky than those made using the center of the dough and therefore the nuts wouldn't stick to the outside.
These are utterly yummy, though at first my children preferred them without the nuts on and made me painstakingly pick them off. They soon changed their mind thankfully but now they are all gone and I am sad. I'll have to make more...
These would make gorgeous Christmas presents too, in lovely little boxes.
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