Homemade Raffaello Candy
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Homemade Raffaello Candy
Description
This preparation starts by creaming softened butter and sugar until smooth. Adding dry milk powder and shredded coconut provides a dense, sweet base, while crushed vanilla cream wafers add texture and subtle vanilla flavor. The mixture is chilled to firm up, allowing easy shaping into balls that encase a roasted almond at their center.
Rolling the shaped candies in extra shredded coconut gives a characteristic snowy coating. The final candies have a creamy and sweet interior with a slight crunch from the almond and a soft coconut exterior. They are stored refrigerated in an airtight container, keeping fresh for up to three days.
This recipe advises using vanilla cream wafers rather than plain round cookies like Nilla wafers, to achieve the traditional flavor and creaminess expected from Raffaello candies. Chilling the mixture thoroughly before shaping helps maintain the candy's shape and texture.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
- 1 cup milk powder dry
- 3/4 cup coconut dried shredded
- 1 cup vanilla wafers sugar wafers with the cream in the middle, not the round thin cookies, crushed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or almond extract
- 1/4 cup almond roasted
- 1/2 cup coconut dried shredded, for rolling
Instructions
- In a stand mixer beat together butter and sugar 2 minutes on medium speed.
- Reduce speed to low and add milk powder, 3/4 cup coconut, vanilla wafers, and extract to combine. Refrigerate one hour or overnight.
- Using a cookie scoop measure out dough balls and insert an almond into the center. Carefully remove the candy dough from the scoop and gently use your hands to shape the candy into balls. Roll each ball in coconut and serve.
- Store in an airtight container refrigerated for up to 3 days.
Notes
- Use vanilla cream wafers with a creamy filling, not plain round cookies like Nilla wafers, for authentic flavor and texture.
- Refrigerate the shaped candies in an airtight container and consume within three days for best freshness.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 20candies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 147 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 0g | |
| Calories | 147kcal | 7% |
| Carbohydrates | 15g | 5% |
| Protein | 3g | 6% |
| Fat | 8g | 12% |
| Saturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Cholesterol | 13mg | 4% |
| Sodium | 111mg | 5% |
| Potassium | 150mg | 3% |
| Fiber | 0g | 0% |
| Sugar | 12g | 24% |
| Vitamin A | 280IU | 6% |
| Vitamin C | 0.4mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 87mg | 9% |
| Iron | 0.2mg | 1% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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