Oh christmas time oh christmas time oh how i love thee so… But only because i get an awesome excuse to bake and eat!
This christmas is particularly special to me, because this is the christmas where i begin the tradition of christmas eve baking with my daughter. And yes i am aware she is too young to help, but today as she played on her mat and as i explained each step i just knew that this is going to be something we can enjoy together for years to come.
And so to begin the tradition of baking this year i have tried something new, something that is not traditionally Australian, actually not many Aussies i know have heard of them… This year i am attempting cake balls. Coconut ice cake balls to be precise!
Georgii’s Christmas Coconut Ice Cake Balls
Ingredients
Cake
- 160g butter, melted
- 1 & 1/3 cup caster sugar
- 4 teaspoons vanilla essence
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 & 1/3 cup desiccated coconut
- 2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
- 1 & 1/3 cup buttermilk
Icing
- 2 cups desiccated coconut
- 4 cups icing sugar mixture
- butter, softened
- red food colouring
Coating
- 2 blocks white chocolate
- red & green food colouring
Recipe
Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Place all the dry ingredients into a bowl, mix then make a well in the centre. Add all the wet ingredients, then mix with an electric beater until well combined.
Place in a round cake tin, and bake until a skewer comes out clean, approximately 1/2 hour.
While the cake is baking make the icing by combining all the ingredients. Start with a small amount of the soft butter and continue to add small amounts until the icing is like a soft dough, add a few drops of pink or red food colouring.
When cooked, remove the cake from oven when cooked & cool in tin for 10 minutes. Remove from tin.
Cut off the crusty side bits and the top of the cake, and if your like me – eat them!
Then while the cake is still warm crumble and mix into the icing that you have pre made
Then roll into balls
Place in the fridge to cool and harden a little. Once the cake balls are hard melt 1.5 blocks of the white chocolate and dunk each one in the chocolate coating them all except the bottom.
Melt the remaining half a block of chocolate and seperate into two bowls. Colour one red and one green, then using a piping bag decorate the cake balls…. (As you can see the green colour did not work so well this time – my piping hole was too big!)
Place in the fridge and either wrap in cellophane as presents or present on a lovely dish 
Georgii and i had a wonderful time baking today and i just hope that in the years to come we will celebrate each christmas eve with some wonderful baking together!
