These coconut balls require only a handful of ingredients, and can be put together within minutes.
Call these what you must, homemade Rafaellos, coconut ladoos, coconut balls, coconut truffles, these bitesize confections make for a quick and easy dessert fix. The recipe is simple. It requires two main components, desiccated coconut and sweetened condensed milk. The recipe is finished with dashes and pinches of other essential (and non-essential) add-ins, cardamom, a pinch of salt and vanilla.
I’ll call it an easy coconut balls recipe.
I chose to add a bit of cardamom to these coconut balls. This year I’ve taken a strong liking towards the spice, drawing inspiration from my roots. I loved adding cardamom to my blueberry muffin recipe [1], and I think it could also be really nice in my carrot cake recipe [1]. Cardamom is found in many Indian desserts (and meals as well), and for good reason. Its warmth, fragrance and slight sweetness puts it right alongside cinnamon on the spice shelf. It may be novel to the Western palate, but I see many recipes using cardamom these days. It’s really nice, worth a try! Hence a synonym for ‘coconut balls,’ the Indian twist dubs these as coconut ladoos.
I was debating whether to post this recipe for Christmas time or whether it was better to wait until summer. Why? Because they resemble snowballs, and package nicely making them the perfect holiday treat or present if packaged nicely. But they’re also no-bake, and made with coconut, the latter being defining summer ingredient.
The bottom line is, you can make these coconut balls all year around- and they’re really, really easy to make. If you prefer to be slightly more extravagant, feel free to dip the coconut balls into some melted chocolate for a Bounty-style finish, or keep it elegant and chic, like a Rafaello. Either way, if you like coconut, this is a tribute to you.
Let’s make this easy coconut balls recipe.
Yum!
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