Dessert · Newfoundland

Oatmeal Snowballs

Butter, sugar, milk and cocoa boiled twenty minutes, oats and coconut stirred in, rolled in more coconut.

A photo of rum balls
Photo: miamism, CC BY 2.0
Total
40 min
Serves
24
Ingredients
  • ½ cup butter
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 1 tin milk
  • 4 tbsp cocoa
  • 2 ½ cups rolled oats
  • 2 ½ cups coconut
  • coconut (to roll)
Method
  1. Boil the butter, sugar, milk and cocoa for 20 minutes.
  2. Add the rolled oats and the coconut.
  3. Roll in balls and then in coconut.

Notes

She called this one Snowballs. A different sweet from the Snow Balls already on the site, which starts from a cake mix.

Source: Nan's recipe book

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wolfeats.ca/recipes/oatmeal-snowballs/