Coconut BonBons
1 (15 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup butter margarine
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 (12 ounce) package grated coconut
1 (24 ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
4 tablespoons solid vegetable shortening
Mix together condensed milk, butter, sugar
and coconut. Cover with wax paper and chill
for 24 hours. In the top of a double boiler over hot (not boiling) water, melt chocolate with shortening. Roll coconut mixture into 3/4-inch balls and with fork dip into chocolate. Drop on wax paper to cool and dry.
Note: Posted by "Marbalet" to the now-defunct Holiday Cookie Club at Epicurious.com.
Reviews of Coconut BonBons:
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A cookie baker Dec 16, 2007
Would make this again.
I added nuts and sone extract. They where good.
Holly in Aurora NY Dec 10, 2007
Would make this again.
This is a lot better if you use 14 oz of cococut and get rid or the confectioners sugar. I have been making these this way for years and I got it from my exhusbands grandmother. I don't think that a 70 year old lady would steer in wrong. Try it this way.
Dec 8, 2007
Would not make this again.
didn't taste good at all!!!
Cookie Queen in West Virginia Oct 1, 2007
Would make this again.
Better with white chocolate.
karen in atlanta georgia Sep 21, 2007
Would make this again.
delicious candy and so easy to make.Would be great to make at christmas and easter time.
