Fruit and Nut Balls

Nuts and dried fruit in a coconut covered sphere.

This is an English recipe.

This recipe contains the following types of ingredient: dairy and honey; plants and fungi.

Dried fruit mix:

50 g

FAIRTRADE apricots

50 g

FAIRTRADE sultanas

50 g

FAIRTRADE raisins

50 g

FAIRTRADE dates

50 g

FAIRTRADE pineapple

50 g

FAIRTRADE mango

Mixed nuts:

25 g

FAIRTRADE cashew nuts

25 g

FAIRTRADE brazil nuts

25 g

FAIRTRADE almonds

25 g

FAIRTRADE walnuts

Glue:

50 ml

FAIRTRADE runny honey

100 g

dessicated coconut

100 g

icing sugar

Nuts and fruit need to be cut to the size of half of a pea or smaller. For apricots, use scissors; for other fruit use a herb knife.

For walnuts and cashews, crush gently using a rolling pin. For brazils and almonds, use a sharp kitchen chopper.

Mix the chopped fruit and nut together in a mixing bowl (not coconut).

Stir in the honey.

Mould into balls smaller than a squash ball but larger than a marble.

Roll each ball in the coconut.

Then roll each ball in the icing sugar.

Try additional orange peel.

Toast the nuts until golden

Dip each ball coconutty ball in molten Darkly Divine chocolate.