Before 4 Ingredient Recipes Were Famous

Somewhere among my recipe file mess, is the little green ornament-shaped cut out, illustrating this recipe that I've owned since somewhere around 1989 (owh so old). As far as recipe organisation goes I tried to simplify it way back when my PVC covered A5 folder, and remarkably low GSM lined paper inserts were just the coolest thing around. In this overly acid free world we now live in I get heeby jeebies every time that plasticy surface touches my hands, because it's surely bringing me to self destruction.

So let us document it on the world wide web for all to see in it's glory:

Chocolate Balls

250g Marie biscuits

1 cup coconut (plus extra for rolling)

3 tablespoons cocoa

1 tin condensed milk (395g)

1. Crush biscuits. (I do this about 4 at a time in a zip lock bag, using a rolling pin.)
2. Add coconut, condensed milk and cocoa to the biscuits.
3. Mix well. (See picture to right).
4. Shape into small balls and roll in coconut.
5. Refrigerate until firm (tastes better this way).


Disclaimer: This is a 100% true blue (Aussie) recipe so, 1 cup is 250ml and one tablespoon is 20ml. Coconut is desciated, who uses the shredded stuff? The tin size of the condensed milk has most probably dropped over the years, but recent experiments show this recipe still works. One last tip, rolling smaller sized balls in an effort to make them last longer will NOT work!