Chocolate balls
Sep 30, 2009 2:00pm- 25 mins cooking
- Makes 24 Item
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Ingredients
Chocolate balls
- 125 gram cream cheese, chopped
- 1 cup nutella
- 350 gram madeira cake, crumbled
- 1/2 cup ground almonds, toasted
- 180 gram dark chocolate
- 15 gram copha
- 1/4 cup desiccated coconut
- 1/4 cup cocoa
Method
Chocolate balls
- 1Line a baking tray with foil.
- 2In a bowl, beat cream cheese and Nutella together until smooth. Mix in cake crumbs and almonds. Chill until firm enough to handle.
- 3Roll tablespoonfuls of mixture into balls. Arrange on tray.
- 4Melt chocolate and Copha together in a small saucepan over a low heat, stirring.
- 5Using 2 forks, toss balls in chocolate then toss in coconut or cocoa. Chill until firm. Store in an airtight container in the fridge. Pack into boxes as a gift.
Notes
If preferred, melt chocolate with Copha in the microwave oven on medium (50 per cent) power in 1-minute bursts, stirring after each. Also, to make it easier, spoon the chocolate over the balls and then sprinkle with the coconut or cocoa.