Swedish Chocolate Balls (or Coconut Balls)

Prep time: 20 min
Servings: 48
Yield: 48 servings

Description

This recipe for Swedish chocolate balls (or coconut balls) is for no-bake morsels with oats, sugar, cocoa, butter, coffee, chocolate, and coconut.

Ingredients

4 cups regular rolled oats
1 1/4 cups white sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened baking chocolate, melted
2 tablespoons strong coffee
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup coconut flakes

Directions

1 Combine oats, sugar, and cocoa in a bowl. Add butter; mix, using your hands, until makes a thick dough. Mix in chocolate, coffee, and vanilla until thoroughly blended.
2 Place coconut flakes in a small bowl. Pinch off small pieces of dough; roll into balls (about 1 ½ inches). Roll balls in coconut flakes. Balls are ready to eat, or refrigerate to become firmer, about 2 hours.