Coconut Candy

“I used a digital meat probe loosely wrapped around my candy thermometer; and that really helped. I am not sure whether it made a difference or not. . . but I used clear Harris Teeter light corn syrup. because I wanted my candies to be as pale as possible.I feel that the coconut dough was too wet and needed more coconut, about 16 ounces would probably have been perfect; as I noted in the store that the HT clear was runnier than the Caro.I also added 1/2 t vanilla and 1/2 t coconut extract.It is moist and delicious.This dough was extremely sticky to work with.I recommend wearing plastic gloves or putting it in a cookie press to fill your molds.I also think that the dough would have a better texture if the coconut were processed in the food processor.This is my picture here with the pink chocolates . . . what you cannot see is that the coconut dough weeps through the chocolate at the bottom because it is too wet, but they are fantastic, and I can’t recommend white chocolate enough for these!This is only my first attempt at trying this. To get it into bars, I had to press out the dough between two silicone pads, freeze, and chop into squares, it was hard to do, but I couldn’t work with it room temp except as balls.Using a mold would have been alot easier; if I do it again, that’s what I’ll try.”

“I made this for Christmas and had lots of compliments.I didn’t have almonds, so next time want to try it with them.This was a fabulous recipe.Thanks so much for sharing.”

“These are so easy and everone where I work think that I am amazing because I can make candy bars. I would not change a thing”

“This was easy to make and very good tasting but I tried the almond joy version and I messed up.I had sweet and unsweet chocolate and used the unsweet accidentally.We can’t eat it now.Nothing wrong at all with the recipe,I will make again and do it right next time.Thanks for the post.”

“I was looking for a recipe like this that I made before with Eagle Brand milk. This worked great. THANKS!”

“Vegans, take note. These are delicious and you can make a Mounds version, or an Almond Joy version if you can find vegan milk chocolate. A bit of work but well worth it. I did find that my syrup mixture needed more than one package of coconut, more like 1 1/2 packages. I used a meat fork with long tines to spear the candies to dunk them in the chocolate. Fantastic. Thanks Sharlene!”