Chocolate Coconut Balls

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Title: Chocolate Coconut Balls
Categories: Chocolate, Candies
Yield: 1 servings

3 Unsweetened baking chocolate
; (1 oz. each)
1/4 c Butter
1/2 c Sweetened condensed milk
= (not evaporated milk)
3/4 c Granulated sugar
1/4 c Water
1 tb Light corn syrup
1 ts Vanilla extract
2 c Mounds sweetened coconut
-flakes
1 c Chopped nuts
Powdered sugar

Recipe by: www.hersheys.com
1. In large heavy saucepan over very low heat, melt
chocolate and butter. Add sweetened condensed milk; stir to
blend. Remove from heat.
2. In small saucepan, stir together granulated sugar,
water and corn syrup. Cook over medium heat, stirring
constantly, until sugar is dissolved. Cook, without
stirring, until mixture reaches 250 F on candy thermometer
or until syrup, when dropped into very cold water, forms a
firm ball which does not flatten when removed from water.
(Bulb of candy thermometer should not rest on bottom of
saucepan.) 3. Remove from heat; stir into chocolate
mixture. Add vanilla, coconut and nuts; stir until well
blended.
4. Refrigerate about 30 minutes or until firm enough to
handle. Shape into 1-inch balls; roll in powdered sugar.
Store tightly covered in cool, dry place. About 5 dozen
candies.
Note: For best results, do not double this recipe.Jm
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Corporation. Recipe may be reprinted courtesy of the
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