Colourful coconut truffles

Description:
These delightful truffles are made with Madeira cake, fruits and desiccated coconut, ideal for making with the kids.

Main ingredients:
Dairy, Flour, Fruit, Eggs, Sugar

Ingredients:
85g ready-to-eat dried apricots, finely chopped
25g desiccated coconut
125ml light condensed milk
To decorate
140g desiccated coconut
Different food colourings, as desired

Method:
Line 2 baking trays with greaseproof paper and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, crumble the cake with your fingers, to get them rather small.
Tip in the apricots and coconut and using your hands again, mix together with the cake crumbs.
Use a wooden spoon to stir in the condensed milk.
Gather everything together with your hands until it is well mixed and all the cake crumbs are sticky.
Roll the sticky cake mixture into small balls and line them up on the trays, then put them in the fridge to set a bit.
Decide on how many different food colourings you are going to use, then split the coconut into the same number of piles.
Put each pile of coconut into a sealable plastic bag, add a few drops of food colouring to each to achieve the colour desired, and seal the bag.
Shake the bags and scrunch between your fingers until all the coconut is combined.
Open all the bags of coloured coconut and take the truffles out of the fridge.
Put 1 tablespoon of water in a small bowl and lightly coat each truffle in so the coconut can stick.
One by one, drop each truffle into one of your bags.
Shake it and roll it around until the outside is covered in coconut.
Put each truffle onto the trays and chill for another 2 hours until they are really cold and firm.
If you like, put some of the truffles in gift bags or boxes and tie with ribbons to give as presents.
Will keep in the fridge for up to 1 week.

Serves: Makes 20
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Recipe Type: Party Food, Dessert, Kids Food, Gifts
Level of Difficulty: Easy