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The Best Ever Coconut Snowballs

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The Best Ever Coconut Snowballs. If you have not tried and made these coconut snowballs at home, then for sure you’re missing out! Do it now!

How does one describe The Best Ever Snowballs?

Let’s try this for starters:  

The Best Ever Snowballs

snowball is a spherical object made from snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands and pressing the snow together to compact it into a ball. Snowballs are often used in games such as snowball fights. 

Snowballs for playing in the snow
Actual Snowballs

I am for sure NOT talking about that type of Snowballs, although it’s fun to play in the snow on a winter day, today we are looking at the most delicious and luxuriously self-indulgent coconut snowballs which are cake-like treats, mostly coated in pink-colored desiccated coconut

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The Best Snowballs

an image of three round pink colored and coconut covered Snowballs

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An easy and wonderful treat to prepare at home, so let’s get started

  • Author: EsmeSalon.com
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cooling and Decorating Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 25 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
  • Yield: 20 1x
  • Category: Cake, Cupcakes, Cookies and Tarts

Ingredients

Units Scale

Snowball Mixture

Snowball Syrup

Cream filling

Instructions

Snowball Cake

  1. Using an electric mixer beat together eggs and sugar till light and fluffy.
  2. Add vanilla and oil and mix well.
  3. In a separate bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, and salt.
  4. Gradually add the milk and mix gently, do not over-mix.
  5. Pour the cake batter into cupcake holders that you placed in the muffin pan
  6. Bake for about 20-25 minutes in a preheated oven at 180C / 350F or until a tester inserted in the center of the cakes comes out clean
  7. Cool the cupcakes in their pans for 10 minutes, then turn them out to cool completely.

Syrup

  1. Mix the water and apricot jam together and add 1 tsp red food coloring.
  2. Allow to cool, dip in the cold syrup, and roll in coconut.

Cream Filling

  1. Whip ½ cup fresh cream with 1 tsp icing sugar
  2. Slice snowballs into 2, pipe cream in the middle, and place the other half on top.

Notes

Prepared, tried and tested by Jennifer Govender Bisnath

Original recipe from Fatima Sydow

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The Best Ever Snowballs

Here we have the famous South African version, although I am not sure of the true origin of this moreish pink treat.  Should you have more information, on the origin, please let me know, as I am always interested to find out the true origin of food.

One can say that these coconut snowballs. have the appearance of a whoopie pie, an American baked product that may be considered either a cookie, pie, sandwich, or cake.  The same applies to these lovely homemade pink-colored coconut snowballs. It is made of two round mound-shaped pieces of cake with a sweet, creamy filling or frosting sandwiched between them.

You can also try these Raspberry Snowballs With Fresh Cream

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12 thoughts on “The Best Ever Coconut Snowballs”

    • Nakaida, Thank you for your comment.

      I am sure that there are many variations on the theme and this version being one of them. Feel free to join my Facebook Group The Recipe Hunter – https://www.facebook.com/groups/therecipehunter – and then submit your own recipe with jelly instead of jam. It can also be that the person that tested this one did not have jelly and substituted it with jam. Thanks again for your comment.

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