Pink Snow Balls
By
Mike Chetty
@MikesKitchen
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These delicious decadent snow balls are cake like treats,coated in pink coconut I'm unsure of the origin's of this Pretty in Pink Treat. They resemble whoopie pies: Snow balls are neither a cookie or a pie. They have a soft cake like texture but can be moulded and shaped like scones.
Ingredients
- 125 g
- butter, room temperature
- 125 ml
- cream
- 200 g
- jam, any flavor i used raspberry jam
- 125 g
- castor sugar
- 625 ml
- self rising flour
- 5 ml
- red food coloring
- 1 1/2 c
- desiccated coconut
- 1 tsp
- vanilla extract
- 375 ml
- boiling water
How to Make Pink Snow Balls
- 1sift flour
- 2cream butter and castor sugar
- 3add cream and continue to whisk until soft and fluffy
- 4add flour to cream mixture
and knead to make a soft dough - 5divide dough into 24 balls and then flatten and place onto a cookie sheet or muffin pan
- 6prepare baking pan by applying a spread of melted butter and then sprinkle some flour onto pan shaking off any excess flour
- 7place flattened balls onto baking pan then place into a preheated oven set at 180 degrees centigrade and bake for 15 minutes
- 8meanwhile add boiling water to the jam of your choice and beat together with a whisk, until smooth next add in the vanilla extract and the red food color and mix
- 9remove baked snow balls from oven and allow to cool
- 10add the snowballs in the jam mixture and then sandwich cakes together and roll into the desiccated coconut
- 11place on platter and allow to cool....enjoy
