5.0 from 6 votes
Snowballs
Chocolate, coconut... who can resist this delightful recipe from 1940?!
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
30 mins
Servings: 38 pieces
Calories: 66 kcal
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
Australian
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 1 cup SR flour (or 1 cup of plain flour (all purpose flour) and 2 teaspoons of baking powder)
- 3 tablespoons Hot Milk
- ¼ teaspoon bicarb soda
- 180 grams milk chocolate
- 30 grams copha (or 30ml coconut oil)
- ¼ cup desiccated coconut (unsweetened)
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to moderate (170 degrees celsius/340 degrees fahrenheit, fan-forced).
- Grease mini cupcake tins.
- Beat eggs for about 3-4 minutes on med-high or until pale-coloured and frothy.
- Add sugar gradually, beating between each addition, and then beat again for another couple of minutes.
- Fold through sifted flour.
- Dissolve bicarb soda in the hot milk and then fold through the mixture.
- Spoon mixture into tins (so half-filled with mixture).
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Allow to cool on a wire rack.
- Melt chocolate and copha in microwave with 20 second bursts, stirring between each burst until completely melted.
- Dip mini cupcakes in chocolate and place on a wire cooling rack (with baking paper underneath to catch chocolate drips). Sprinkle with coconut and allow to set.
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Notes
- Storing: Snowballs will keep for up to 2 days if stored in an airtight container (either in fridge or at room temperature).
- Freezing: You can freeze them, again stored in an airtight container, for up to 3 months.
- Nutrition: The nutrition information is an automatically generated estimate and is not guaranteed to be accurate.
Nutrition Information
Calories
66kcal
(3%)
Carbohydrates
10g
(3%)
Protein
1g
(2%)
Fat
3g
(5%)
Saturated Fat
2g
(10%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
0.3g
Monounsaturated Fat
1g
Trans Fat
0.1g
Cholesterol
9mg
(3%)
Sodium
12mg
(1%)
Potassium
25mg
(1%)
Fiber
0.4g
(2%)
Sugar
6g
(12%)
Vitamin A
14IU
(0%)
Vitamin C
0.01mg
(0%)
Calcium
5mg
(1%)
Iron
0.3mg
(2%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 38pieces
Amount Per Serving
Calories 66
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 66kcal | 3% |
| Carbohydrates | 10g | 3% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 3g | 5% |
| Saturated Fat | 2g | 10% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 0.3g | 2% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Trans Fat | 0.1g | 5% |
| Cholesterol | 9mg | 3% |
| Sodium | 12mg | 1% |
| Potassium | 25mg | 1% |
| Fiber | 0.4g | 2% |
| Sugar | 6g | 12% |
| Vitamin A | 14IU | 0% |
| Vitamin C | 0.01mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 5mg | 1% |
| Iron | 0.3mg | 2% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.