Leftover Stew

Day 142

So, leftover vegetable stew tonight for supper. Day 3. Nothing exciting enough to blog about. So, I've decided to blog about what I made for dessert instead.

Leftover Stew

Homemade Almond Joys!!!!

Original recipe here

This recipe has been circulating Facebook and we couldn't resist trying them. They're really easy to make and cost about 10.00. The recipe makes about 30 of them.

 Homemade Almond Joy ingredients

Coconut & Sweetened Condensed Milk

Mix 3 cups of coconut with most of a can of Eagle Brand or Compliments sweetened condensed milk. Or whatever brand you want. When you squeeze a handful it should stick together.

Coconut & sweetened milk

You have to squeeze it pretty hard, as though trying to wring out the wetness. But they stick together pretty well when you do. I rolled an almond into each of these; here's how:

Pick up a handful of sticky coconut. 

Squeeze it.

Push an almond into it.

Squeeze in your left hand to form a log, pick up the log with the thumb and middle finger of your right hand and rotate it, squeeze with left, rotate with right, etc, until it's a firm log shape.

Roll all the mixture into the little logs and place them on a tray, then put them in the freezer for about 15 or 20 minutes.

 Coconut bars ready for the freezer

Roll in Chocolate

We had a few Merckens wafers on hand so we used them along with a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Semi-sweet chocolate chips & Merckens wafer

It doesn't show it here, but I melted the chocolate in a double boiler.

Chocolate

They were easy to coat, just rolled them in the pot of chocolate with a fork, one at a time and set them on a fresh cookie sheet. Then, back into the freezer they went.

 Homemade Almond Joy bars

More Almonds

Some of them got an extra almond on top of them. But they all have one inside as well. SoooOOOoooOOoooOooooo good.

Homemade Almond Joy bars