Swedish Chocolate ball deluxe – Delicato ball
Delicato ball is similar to the regular Swedish chocolate ball, but more fancy.
Equipment
- 1 Electrical hand mixer
- 1 Food processor or blender
Ingredients
- 160 g Quick Oats (5.6 oz)
- 4 tbsp Coffee brewed or espresso
- 50 g Butter (1.8 oz) soft, room temperature
- 100 g Coconut oil (3.5 oz) room temperature but not melted
- 90 g Icing sugar (3.1 oz)
- 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp Cocoa powder
- 150 g Dark chocolate (5.3 oz)
- Desiccated coconut , unsweetened
Instructions
- Mix the oatmeal to a fine powder in a food processor or blender. Add freshly brewed coffee or espresso. I prefer espresso for a stronger coffee flavour. Pour the coffee into the oatmeal powder. It doesn’t matter if the coffee is hot. And mix again.
- Using an electrical hand mixer whisk coconut oil, butter and icing sugar white and fluffy.
- Quickly whisk in the oatmeal mix and vanilla extract.
- Finally add the cocoa powder and mix it into the mixture
- Next, use a piping bag and pipe small chocolate balls onto a baking sheet lined tray that will go into the freezer.
- Leave the chocolate balls in the freezer for about 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, chop the chocolate finely and melt in a bain-Marie.
- Put desiccated coconut in a bowl.
- Take the chocolate balls out of the freezer.
- Put on disposable gloves and dip one ball at a time into some chocolate. Roll the ball between your hands so that the entire Delicato ball is covered in chocolate. You should not drown the chocolate ball with melted chocolate. The purpose of the melted chocolate is for the desiccated coconut to stick and to get a nice result.
- Immediately place the ball in the coconut flakes and turn around with a spoon. Here it’s great if you get the help of someone who turns the ball around in coconut flakes, it will be less messy.
- Keep the Delicato balls in a air-tight container in the refrigerator. Take them out of the refrigerator and let them come to room temperature before serving.
Notes
You can store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.