Homemade coconut and date candies
Ingredients:
Dates - 150-200 gr;
Coconut flakes from one coconut;
Sesame - approximately 6 -7 tablespoons.
First you need to prepare coconut shavings; to do this, grate the contents of one on a fine grater. You can see how to open a coconut easily and safely here.
After the coconut shavings are ready, we begin dates. Wash it, let it dry a little, remove the seeds and put it in a small saucepan or stewpan.
Add a little water and put on low heat. The task is to obtain a soft, homogeneous mass; you can use a spoon or spatula. If the dates are soft, then the mass is ready in a couple of minutes. Then let it cool a little.
Add coconut flakes to it and mix everything thoroughly.
The resulting mass can be put in the refrigerator for a while, so it will mold better.
Fry the required amount of sesame seeds in a frying pan or in the oven until light golden brown, let cool. Pour sesame seeds into a small container.
Let's start forming balls. To do this, simply take a little candy mass with your fingertips and form a small ball, then put it in a container with sesame seeds, where we roll it on all sides.
These are such wonderful sweets!
Recipes with few ingredients are always attractive in their simplicity. What if the components are also interchangeable, useful, and children really like them? Agree that these are good reasons to make homemade diet candies.
Homemade diet sweets:
Ah, candy! This is a pain point for those with a sweet tooth on a diet. We offer a step-by-step recipe for homemade coconut candies: two-colored with a pleasant coconut-chocolate taste and delicate texture.
Don't worry about your figure - each candy contains only 37.1 kcal. In addition, the candies have low...
So, let's begin?
Ingredients:
- coconut flakes – 50 g
- cocoa – 1 tbsp. l.
- almond flour – 1 tbsp. l.
- Agave syrup – 1 tbsp. l.
- for dusting – a mixture of coconut flakes, lemon zest and turmeric.
Making healthy dietary candies without baking
In a coffee grinder or shredder (a blender will not work), grind the coconut flakes until they are moist and sticky. With stops, shaking the cup every 1-2 seconds.
Using a spoon, periodically stir the mixture, moving it away from the walls towards the center.
Grind to a semi-liquid paste-like state until it separates. By the way, don’t be afraid of the fat contained in coconut, it’s very healthy!
Place the pasta in a bowl. Add 1 tbsp. l. agave syrup. Alternative options include maple syrup, Jerusalem artichoke syrup, or honey. True, the latter has a rather high glycemic index, take this into account.
Divide the resulting paste into 2 equal parts.
In one - add 1 tbsp. l. almond flour. Instead, you can use almonds crushed in a coffee grinder or milk powder, which together with coconut flakes gives the candies a “Raffaello” taste. Thoroughly grind the “white porridge”.
Add 1 tbsp to the other half of the mass. l. cocoa. (we use carob because we make these candies for children).
The resulting mass is no longer sticky, it crumbles.
Two bases for homemade sweets are ready.
We form homemade dietary sweets.
Fill a semicircular measuring spoon (7.5 mg) halfway with the white mass, pressing well with your thumbs so that the coconut oil comes out.
Place the dark base on top and press down well again.
We press on one edge of the candy, and it comes out of the mold on its own.
Place homemade diet candies made from coconut flakes on a plate or surface covered with cling film.
To prepare a beautiful topping, we use a mixture of 25 g coconut flakes, the zest of half a small lemon and a pinch of turmeric and whack-whack in a coffee grinder.
Place the finished candies in the cold (not in the freezer) to harden for 3 hours.
Makes 9-10 diet candies. Cooking time 20-25 minutes.
If you need more, increase the portion!
Compound:
- Cottage cheese – 200 grams
- Powdered sugar – 50 grams
- Coconut flakes - 100 grams for candies, and 50 grams for rolling candies.
Curd sweets with coconut flakes look like Raffaello sweets. But they have one thing in common - coconut flakes.
I found a lot of homemade candy recipes on the Internet, but I liked this one because they are very easy to prepare. It takes no more than 15 minutes, minimal effort, and your family will be delighted with the sweets. In addition, these sweets are light and healthy. To prepare them, you do not need butter, condensed milk or chocolate. All you need is cottage cheese, powdered sugar and coconut.
Sometimes you can’t force children to eat cottage cheese, which is necessary for their growth, and cottage cheese-coconut sweets are an excellent solution for young mothers. The kids will eat them with pleasure. By the way, you can add a filling of prunes or nuts to the candies, to suit your taste.
Homemade sweets recipe:
1. The powder along with coconut flakes needs to be slightly crushed in a blender.
2. Grind the cottage cheese in a blender (separately from the coconut flakes and sugar) and beat a little.
3. Then mix the mixture of powdered sugar and coconut flakes with the cottage cheese crushed in a blender.
It turns out that this is the mass.
4. Now you need to mold small balls with your hands.
5. Then roll the shaped coconut balls in coconut flakes.
6. These are the candies we made with coconut flakes.
Bon appetit! Enjoy this sweet and healthy treat with the whole family!
Most people love sweets! I don’t know about you, but I count myself among the majority of people with a sweet tooth) At the same time, people usually strongly associate sweets with something harmful and forbidden. You need to at least limit yourself in their use, or better yet, abstain altogether, which of course requires a hell of a lot of willpower! Personally, I am not a supporter of such artificial restrictions in nutrition or in other areas of life.
Rather than constantly exhausting yourself with prohibitions, it is better to once thoroughly understand how exactly this or that product is harmful and what useful things can replace it. For me personally, knowing what specific destructive processes occur inside my body when I eat a chocolate bar or other harmful product allows me to consciously and calmly refuse these nasty things. After all, in my mind they move from the category of “food” to the category of “poisons”.
The best thing is that there are a lot of healthy sweets that will not harm your health. For example, homemade sweets based on dates. After all, they do not contain sugar, fatty oils, and especially no artificial additives or strange chemical ingredients. Everything is only the healthiest and most natural.
I have already posted the recipe on this site. Be sure to try making these sweets, they are my favorite! Today I want to tell you how to make delicious coconut sweets.
We only need three ingredients:
Coconut - 1 pc.
Dates - 20-30 pcs. depending on size. The ratio of dates and coconut pulp should be approximately 1:1.
Dry coconut flakes (for sprinkling) - a few tablespoons.
I'll tell you a little about how to choose the right dates. In markets and stores, dates are most often sold in sticky sugar syrup. I try not to buy these. Read about how dried fruits are processed and how to distinguish natural dates from chemical ones. I really like Iranian dates of the Kaspiran variety. They are sold in small boxes weighing 600 g. These are:
They are not processed in any way and the consistency is very soft and delicate. They look like this:
So, how to make coconut sweets:
1. Soak the dates for 20 minutes in water at room temperature. Before soaking, take out the bones. If these are Kaspiran dates, which I wrote about above, then there is no need to soak them, since they themselves are super soft.
2. When the dates become soft, grind them into a thick, homogeneous paste. This can be done using a blender, meat grinder or mill. In the case of soft Kaspiran dates, you just need to mash them with a fork! Right along with the skin, although if you get confused, you can remove the skin from each date. I do not do this.
3. Open the coconut. Look in my separate article. If you read the article and did it correctly, you should end up with two neat halves of coconut meat.
As a result, you will get headers like this - date paste and grated coconut:
5. Mix dates with coconut. You should get a fairly dense, thick mass.
6. From this mass we form small balls with our hands. This is done simply - by rolling the ball in your palms until it becomes smooth and round. Then all that remains is to roll the resulting balls in dry coconut flakes. Fresh coconut shavings, grated by you, are not suitable for sprinkling, as they are not dry. Dry shavings can be bought in a store or market. Or you can make it yourself by drying fresh coconut pulp in an oven or dehydrator. By the way, you can add store-bought dry coconut flakes to the candies themselves, it’s much easier. But the taste of the sweets will not be as delicate.
That's all, delicious coconut candies are ready! It is better to put them in the refrigerator for a while. There they will finally “set” and become especially tasty. These sweets have a very delicate taste, they literally melt in your mouth) Be sure to try it!
Bon appetit! Treat yourself to healthy vegan sweets!
These candies are a real treat. They are very similar to the famous Raffaello candies, but still, without the thin wafer, they “sound” different. These little balls melt on your lips like snow-white snowballs in your hands.
Homemade coconut candies “Snowballs” will be a wonderful gift for New Year or Christmas or will be an excellent decoration for the holiday table.
These candies seem to be the quickest and easiest to make.
The hardest part was finding white chocolate. Porous ones will also work.
Break the chocolate into a bowl.
Heat the cream until boiling. Pour into chocolate. And leave for a few minutes.
Mix the chocolate thoroughly with a spoon, add soft butter at the end and mix again. Place the ganache in the refrigerator.
In the meantime, let's take care of the almonds.
Pour boiling water over the nuts and leave for a couple of minutes. Drain the water and add boiling water again.
Peel the nuts. Fry in the microwave for 2-3 minutes at maximum power.
When the ganache has cooled, beat it with a mixer until thick.
Use a teaspoon to scoop out the chocolate mixture. Place in coconut flakes. Place a nut in the center.
Form a ball with your hands and roll thoroughly in the shavings. Do this with the entire mass.
Store candy in the refrigerator.
Bon appetit and sweet holidays.
