Coconut Almond Balls

Total Time: 37 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients

• 2 (16 ounce) boxes confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 (14 ounce) package shredded coconut
• 1 1/2 cups chopped almonds
• 1 (12 ounce) package milk or 1 (12 ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips

Recipe

• 1 with an electric mixer cream together sugar & butter in a bowl. add milk until well blended. stir in almond extract, coconut & nuts (you may omit the nuts if you do not like them). roll the candy filling into one inch balls and place on waxed paper. refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
• 2 using a double boiler melt chocolate until smooth (you may also melt chocolate in the microwave according to the directions on the chocolate). i like to add approximately 2 tbls of butter or shortening in the chocolate but this is not necessary to do so. dip the balls in chocolate and let stand at room temperature until set.
• 3 store in a tightly sealed container and preferable in the refrigerator until ready to serve.