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Coconut Balls with Farmer's Cheese

A wonderful way to get kids to eat farmer's cheese. And it's delicious! I have a never-ending problem: I just can't get my little picky eaters to eat plain farmer's cheese, so I'm always hunting for recipes that "disguise" it, so to speak :) This recipe is a real find — uncooked farmer's cheese is very good for you, and the shredded coconut makes these balls wonderfully fragrant and tasty, a lot like the well-known Raffaello candies! A nice bonus: each ball has a surprise inside, so the kids will be eager to find out what they got. In my house, they vanished in no time!

nasstin

Recipe author

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Farmer's cheese (9%)

250

Shredded coconut

100

Sugar (or powdered sugar)

Vanillin

0.5

Honey

Raisins

Walnuts (or other nuts)

Cherries (canned, pitted)

Dulce de leche

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 21 % 12 g

Fats 34 % 20 g

Carbohydrates 45 % 26 g

307 kcal

GI: 19 / 8 / 73

Cooking method

Cooking time: 20 min

Step 1:

The ingredients you'll need.
Step 2:

Wash the raisins, cover them with boiling water, and set aside for 10 minutes.
Step 3:

Toast the nuts: you can use a skillet, but since there are so few, I used the microwave — 2 minutes and done! Instead of walnuts you can use absolutely any kind: almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, peanuts — whatever you have on hand.
Step 4:

My farmer's cheese is grainy — you can press it through a sieve, but a blender is faster and easier. For these balls, it's best to use full-fat homemade cheese or, like mine, the 9% store-bought kind.
Step 5:

Add the sugar or powdered sugar.
Step 6:

Add the vanillin.
Step 7:

Add a little honey, if you like.
Step 8:

Blend everything for a few minutes.
Step 9:

You should end up with a smooth mixture.
Step 10:

Now add the shredded coconut and mix well — you'll get a dough-like mixture.
Step 11:

Set a little aside for coating the balls — 2–3 tablespoons will be enough.
Step 12:

Take a bit of the coconut-cheese mixture and flatten it into a disk, make a small well in the center, and place the filling inside. I started with a nut, but unfortunately forgot to photograph this step :)
Step 13:

Shape it into a ball with your hands.
Step 14:

Roll the outside in shredded coconut.
Step 15:

Next, I used 0.5 teaspoon of dulce de leche as a filling. These balls are very delicate, so shape them more carefully than the others.
Step 16:

Then I made a cherry filling (I used canned pitted cherries in their own juice).
Step 17:

The last option is a raisin filling — by now the raisins have plumped up nicely. But these aren't the only filling options — you can use banana, dried apricots, prunes, various nuts, or pieces of fruit jelly, and you can combine several fillings in one, such as nuts + raisins, nuts + cherry, cherry + raisins, and so on. It all comes down to your imagination and mood!
Step 18:

Look at the beauty we ended up with! Impossible to resist!
Step 19:

Enjoy with a cup of tea!