Coconut Cheese Surprise Balls

A wonderful way to feed the kids cottage cheese. This is delicious! I have an eternal problem — I just can’t feed my little picky ones with cottage cheese in its pure form, so I’m always looking for recipes that “mask” it, so to speak) This recipe is just a godsend — cottage cheese without heat treatment is very healthy, and adding coconut flakes makes the balls very fragrant, tasty and similar to the well-known Rafaelki! A nice bonus is that the balls have a surprise inside and the kids will probably want to know what they got) They just flew away with a HURRAY!
cook time: 20 min
Gavin Tanner
Coconut Cheese Surprise Balls

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

307
Calories
20g
Fat
26g
Carbs
12g
Protein

Ingredients (8 portions)

Basic:

Sugar (or powdered sugar) 60 g
Vanillin 0.5 g
Honey 1 tsp
Walnuts (or other nuts) 15 g
Raisin 15 g
Cottage cheese (9%) 250 g
coconut flakes 100 g
Boiled condensed milk 2 tbsp
Cherry (canned, pitted) 15 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Required Ingredients

Step 2

Step 2
Wash the raisins, pour boiling water over them and set aside for 10 minutes.

Step 3

Step 3
We fry the nuts: you can do it in a frying pan, but since there are very few of them, I used the microwave, set it for 2 minutes — and it’s done! Instead of walnuts, you can take absolutely any: almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, peanuts — those that you have in stock

Step 4

Step 4
My cottage cheese is grainy — it can be rubbed through a sieve, but it’s faster and more convenient to use a blender. For such balls, it is better to take full-fat homemade cottage cheese, or 9% store-bought cottage cheese, like mine

Step 5

Step 5
Add sugar or powdered sugar here

Step 6

Step 6
Add vanillin

Step 7

Step 7
If desired, add a little honey

Step 8

Step 8
Puree everything in a blender for a few minutes

Step 9

Step 9
We should get a homogeneous mass

Step 10

Step 10
Now add coconut flakes, mix well, we get a mass similar to dough

Step 11

Step 11
Leave a little for sprinkling the balls, 2-3 tables. l. will be sufficient

Step 12

Step 12
Take a little curd-coconut mass and knead it into a flat cake, make a small depression in the center where we put the filling, I started with a nut, but unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of this stage)

Step 13

Step 13
Form a ball with your hands

Step 14

Step 14
Roll the outside in coconut flakes

Step 15

Step 15
Next, I took 0.5 teaspoon as a filling. l. condensed milk, these balls are very delicate and you need to sculpt them more carefully than others

Step 16

Step 16
Then I made the filling from cherries (I used canned, pitted cherries in their own juice)

Step 17

Step 17
The last option is filling with raisins, which by this time have already steamed. But these are not all the filling options — you can take banana, dried apricots, prunes, various types of nuts, pieces of marmalade, or you can combine several fillings in one, for example, nuts + raisins, nuts + cherries, cherries + raisins, etc. It all depends on your imagination and mood!

Step 18

Step 18
This is such a beauty we got! Itʼs impossible to resist!

Step 19

Step 19
Enjoy your tea!

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