The Fair Trade Cook Book
The FAIRTRADE COOKBOOK
Fair Trade Recipes for a Fairer World

Fruit and Nut Balls

Nuts and dried fruit in a coconut covered sphere.
This is an English recipe.

Ingredients

50 ml	FAIRTRADE runny honey
250 gm	FAIRTRADE dried fruit mix: Apricots Sultanas Raisins Dates Pineapple Mango
100 gm	FAIRTRADE mixed nuts Cashew Brazils Almonds Walnuts
100 gm	dessicated coconut
100 gm	icing sugar


FAIRTRADE	Sources Cashew Nuts Brazil Nuts Walnuts Dessicated Coconut Dried Apricots Dried Mango Dried Pineapple Raisins Sultanas Dates Sugar Honey

Method

Preparation

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.

Assembly

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.

Variations

Try additional orange peel.
Toast the nuts until golden
Dip each ball coconutty ball in molten Darkly Divine chocolate.