Bolitas de Nuez
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Recipe type: Sweets
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Serves: 50 candies
 
Ingredients
  • 2 cups ground Brazil nuts (about 9- ounce)
  • 2 cups ground vanilla cookies (about 7- ounce)
  • 1 can (14-ounce) sweetened condensed milk
  • ¾ cup confectioner´s sugar
Instructions
  1. Mix the ground Brazil nuts and the ground vanilla cookies in a bowl.
  2. Add the sweetened condensed milk and knead with your hands until you have a dought that is not longer sticky.
  3. Put the confectioner´s sugar in a plate.
  4. Start making balls about 1 inch each.
  5. Put the balls in the plate with the confectioners sugar and roll the balls on the sugar, to cover completely, trying to make a thin white layer of sugar over the balls.
  6. After a few hours, the white layer of sugar will be dried and will form a very thin crust.
  7. There are many ways to cover these balls, some ideas are dark chocolate, white chocolate and a mixture of cinnamon and confectioner´s sugar.
  8. The balls can be stored in a can or in a dish cover with plastic film.
  9. With these recipe you will get about fifty balls
Recipe by PERU DELIGHTS at https://perudelights.com/bolitas-de-nuez-sweet-as-a-nut/