Coconut Hearts
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Favourite sweet coconut bar not just for couples for Valentines day :) No bake delicacy coloured with fresh beet juice, but you will not detect any beet flavour.
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Confectionery
Ingredients
Ingredients
beetroot | 5.25 | oz | 150 | grams | |
grated coconut | 7 | oz | 200 | grams | |
grated coconut | - | ||||
milk powder | 3.5 | oz | 100 | grams | |
sugar granulated | 1 | tsp | 1 | teaspoon | |
sweetened condensed milk | 10.5 | oz | 300 | grams |
Recipe
1.
beetroot 5.25 oz (150 g)
Peel raw beetroot and grate it finely. Put it in a sieve and squeeze the juice out.
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3.
grated coconut 7 oz (200 g) • milk powder 3.5 oz (100 g) • sweetened condensed milk 10.5 oz (300 g)
Pour into a bowl coconut, powdered milk and sweetened condensed milk.
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4.
Work the compact coconut mixture.
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5.
Use a rolling pin to spread it on a board sprinkled with grated coconut until it is about 1 cm thin. Cut out a rectangle in the centre in the size of 20 x 15 cm.
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6.
Take the cut-out edges, put them into a soup plate and dye them with prepared beet juice (3 teaspoons).
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7.
Form a cylinder out of the dyed coconut mixture, 20 cm long with diameter 5 cm, and then form it into "roof" shape (triangle cross section, the triangle with the sides of 5 cm).
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8.
Use a handle of wooden spoon to create a line to one side and gently form it to create a heart shape in the cross section. Place it into the freezer for 10 minutes.
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9.
Take the dyed mixture from freezer and place it on prepared rectangle from white coconut mixture, about 2 cm from the edge.
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10.
Fold the edge and gently press it into line created on the heart.
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11.
Attach the second side of the white mixture, gently create pike of the heart and fold the edge to the line.
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12.
Gently press with a handle of the wooden spoon to create compact joint.
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13.
Coat it in coconut, cover with aluminium foil and allow it to stiffen in the cold place.
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14.
Before serving, cut it into 1 cm wide slices. Cut it with a wet knife.
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Bon appetit!