Chocolate coconut candies?

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Anyone still have that recipe that (I think) Heidi came up with? I thought

I saved it but can't find it.

Nanette

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following cut and past from archive. Is this what you are looking for?

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-----------sure thing:

for every-day candies:

mix the following in your mixer (don't try the blender. it so doesn't work.)

gobs of coconut oil

handfuls of coconut

some chopped nuts and some whole nuts (soaked, of course!)

some honey (raw, of course!)

some highquality cocoa if your so inclined

mix well (the mixing softens the coconut oil enough to get it all gobbed

together). it should be spoonable and the coconut oil should hold

everything together nicely. spoon into little balls (or use your hands to

roll into balls) and chill. yum!

for " fancier " candies:

heat coconut oil just enough to melt but not enough to hurt all the

goodness. mix in enough chipped coconut to soak all the oil up. mix in some

honey.

take some ice cube trays (fun shapes or plain) --heidi uses little foil

candy mold things --

and put two or three nuts in each " cube " . spoon coconut on top of the nuts.

heat up more coconut oil gently and add honey if desired (for me that extra

honey would make it too sweet). pour the liquidy coconut oil into each

" cube " until it covers the nuts and coconut. chill.

once they're cooled, they hold together great and they pop out of the tray

nice and smooth - they look like little truffles! you could add cocoa to

these too, or whatever...

have fun,

katja

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On 12/3/05, Nanette J. Landen <nlanden@...> wrote:

>

> Anyone still have that recipe that (I think) Heidi came up with? I

> thought

> I saved it but can't find it.

>

> Nanette

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[Guest guest]

Hi Nanette,

Below are some comments on some tweaking I have done to the recipe.

> -----------sure thing:

> for every-day candies:

> mix the following in your mixer (don't try the blender. it so doesn't work.)

Food processor works great.

> gobs of coconut oil

> handfuls of coconut

I wanted to make a kind of almond joy candy, so the last time I did

this I put in a TON of shredded coconut meat until I could barely even

mix the stuff. It came out quite yummy. I would suggest adding a

little vanillla flavoring to give it that " real " almond joy taste.

> some chopped nuts and some whole nuts (soaked, of course!)

If you want to taste the nuts I would suggest you add them last and

don't mix them long in the processor at all if at all.

> some honey (raw, of course!)

> some highquality cocoa if your so inclined

Last time I used raw cacao nibs and it tasted great in the coco

candies. The honey completely takes away the bitterness.

> mix well (the mixing softens the coconut oil enough to get it all gobbed

> together). it should be spoonable and the coconut oil should hold

> everything together nicely. spoon into little balls (or use your hands to

> roll into balls) and chill. yum!

As note below, ice cube trays work great, or you can even form them

into little bars.

> for " fancier " candies:

>

> heat coconut oil just enough to melt but not enough to hurt all the

> goodness. mix in enough chipped coconut to soak all the oil up. mix in some

> honey.

>

> take some ice cube trays (fun shapes or plain) --heidi uses little foil

> candy mold things --

> and put two or three nuts in each " cube " . spoon coconut on top of the nuts.

>

> heat up more coconut oil gently and add honey if desired (for me that extra

> honey would make it too sweet). pour the liquidy coconut oil into each

> " cube " until it covers the nuts and coconut. chill.

>

> once they're cooled, they hold together great and they pop out of the tray

> nice and smooth - they look like little truffles! you could add cocoa to

> these too, or whatever...

> have fun,

> katja

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On 12/6/05, <slethnobotanist@...> wrote:

> I wanted to make a kind of almond joy candy, so the last time I did

> this I put in a TON of shredded coconut meat until I could barely even

> mix the stuff. It came out quite yummy. I would suggest adding a

> little vanillla flavoring to give it that " real " almond joy taste.

Oh and I tasted some coco candies not to long ago that had dried berry

powder added to them. Yummy!

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Life isn't static. People change. Circumstances

change. What may have been true six months

or a year ago may no longer be true now.

Maybe a loved one got sick and died at a

tender age...Maybe they ran into an old high

school buddy who still looks great...At any rate

what they couldn't hear before rings true to them

now. So don't despair. Stick to the task. You will

eventually find yourself surrounded by people who

do care about good food and see it as a

legitimate avenue to great health.

Winning the War on Good Food

http://www.warongoodfood.com