Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter Balls

Here’s my experience with this recipe.  I usually do not like anywhere the amount of sugar that most people use….and at first taste, I thought these were “barely” sweet after using only 1/2 cup honey.  But after “rolling” them in the remaining coconut, the coconut just sucked the sweetness out of them completely.  I would say to double your honey.  Mine are made exactly to the recipe and are downright bitter.  I also only used 1/2 cup of the cocoa powder and it is plenty chocolate.  Would likely have been seriously bitter had I gone up to the 1 cup of Cocoa powder as is optional.

Also….there was no “rolling” whatsoever.  My kitchen is plenty cool, but the mixture was quite runny!  I just did my best to sprinkle a spoonful with coconut shreds, and then drop it onto a cold plate (that was then sitting on top of a big ice pack).  They still just spread out to big cow pies.

In the future, I will definitely use candy molds or ice cube trays.  Sprinkle the molds or trays with coconut shreds, then spoon in the liquid.  Sprinkle the tops too, then put in the fridge or refrigerator.

Mine are so bitter, will likely have to put a little squirt of honey on top to get them down.  Still, it’s a good recipe if you play with it.  My cocoa was unsweetened cocoa powder, maybe the writer of the recipe was using sweetened cocoa?.

do they roll easily?  do you roll them in the palm of your hands?  i make other recipes into balls, I was just wondering about the consistency..

These are great!  Easy, quick and taste very good!  We ran out of p.butter so used almond butter and ground up 3/4 c. of oats in our herb/coffee grinder.  It’s the kind of recipe you could vary each ingredient a bit depending on your taste and desired consistency.  We even thought of just partially grinding the chips and adding them to the mix if we don’t want to take the time to melt them.