This is a version of coconut ice without condensed milk or egg whites. I find that the ball shape makes it easier for the boys to hold and eat, and these look great for gifts, or to decorate cakes/cupcakes 🙂
Note that the pictures in this batch have balls in different sizes as I made them to top a cake 🙂
Add sugar, milk and salt in bowl.
Heat 5 minutes/60 degrees/Speed 2.
Heat a further 5 minutes/100 degrees/Speed 2.
Add desiccated coconut and mix 20 seconds/Speed 4/reverse.
Remove half the white mixture into a separate bowl…
…and add the pink food colouring in with the remaining half of the mixture – mix 5 seconds/Speed 4/reverse.
Spoon out pink mixture into a separate bowl.
Leave the mixture to cool to room temperature (you can quicken it up in the fridge but don’t let it get too cold or it will be hard to shape).
Once at room temperature, with wet hands, roll mixture into teaspoon sized balls – pink, white, or a marbling of pink/white.
Place in fridge to set.
Coconut Ice Balls
Print RecipeIngredients
- 700 grams sugar
- 300 grams coconut milk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 510 grams desiccated coconut
- 1/4 teaspoon pink food colouring
Instructions
Add sugar, milk and salt in bowl. Heat 5 minutes/60 degrees/Speed 2.
Heat a further 5 minutes/100 degrees/Speed 2.
Add desiccated coconut and mix 20 seconds/Speed 4/reverse.
Remove half the white mixture into a separate bowl, and add the pink food colouring in with the remaining half of the mixture - mix 5 seconds/Speed 4/reverse. Spoon out pink mixture into a separate bowl.
Leave the mixture to cool to room temperature (you can quicken it up in the fridge but don't let it get too cold or it will be hard to shape).
Once at room temperature, with wet hands, roll mixture into teaspoon sized balls - pink, white, or a marbling of pink/white.
Place in fridge to set.
Notes
*Once set in the fridge, the balls hold shape at room temperature and can be kept at either room temperature or in the fridge. **You can make this into a normal coconut ice slice layering the white layer and pink layer, setting in fridge and cutting into squares.