Almond Coconut Balls

I just adore making candies

I just love it. So I'm going to share the almond coconut balls with you first

Now I've got two boxes of confectionate sugar, and I'm going to add one stick of a really softened butter

I'm going to add one can of sweetened condensed milk. Now I'm going to put a teaspoon of almond flavoring

a bag of sweetened flaked coconut, and I'm gonna finish this off with a cup and a half of chopped almonds

Your hands, kids, kinda look like the abominable snowman when you pull them out

All right, and see how quickly we've gotten that together? It doesn't take long at all

Okay, got to do a quick wash up. I've got me a cookie sheet ready here

And y'all will notice that these are no-cooked candies. Now this is the boring part, making balls

So you might want to whistle in for the family. Because before you know it, you get to talking and chatting and laughing and having a good time

And all the balls are done. I'm bored already, cause I got some ready in the refrigerator

so they ain't no sense in me doing this, is it? All right

Here's our chilled balls. Now, I'm gonna take chocolate chips. Now you can use semi or unsweet All right I gonna use a half a bar of paraffin wax and that wax that you use to like make your jellies and jams with

and this is gonna make the chocolate stick to our candy. So I'm just gonna melt that over some boiling water

It's gonna make our balls real, real shiny and pretty. Way to go, Paula

All right. Now we're gonna take our candy, we're gonna stick a skewer into it

you can use a toothpick, but I've found that the skewers are heavier and it just works better

So we're just gonna run them around in there. Using another stick, I'm gonna push that off

and just cover that hole. Pretty neat little trick, isn't it? So we're gonna do that same thing again

Perfect. All right, I tell y'all something, this has made me so hungry

I've got some in the refrigerator that's already set, because you can leave these out of the

counter, or you can put them in the refrigerator. Well, I want to rush it along, so I put mine in the refrigerator

So, why don't we stop and have a little bite of candy

And then I'll come back and do these while we're on break. Look how good these look and they've hardened up

Now these candies are good at any holiday. Look at those chocolates