French Cocoa Sweetened Condensed Milk Snowballs - No Bake Candy

While searching for a quick, easy recipe with ingredients I had on hand for an upcoming group meeting (I always try out new recipes on unsuspecting groups of people, for some reason!), I came across this recipe. <br/><br/>It was very easy and very delicious. The only change I made was adding a tablespoon or so of cinnamon to the rolling mixture, it just added a little something that I liked better. I actually got two batches out of a 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk. The first batch I rolled smaller and got about 38-40 balls. The second ended up larger and I only got 26. I also had quite a lot of the rolling mixture left over, enough for at least one more batch, probably two.<br/><br/>I only had raw, shelled peanuts on hand, so I "chopped" them in the blender (ended up very fine) and roasted them a bit before adding to the mixture. I was also very liberal with the homemade vanilla I used. <br/><br/>I will definitely make these again. I saw another recipe that was kind of similar and they recommended freezing for a chewy texture. I imagine that these could be made ahead, for the holidays for example, and frozen. I plan on trying that out! Thanks for posting this little gem, it made my preparations for the group much easier.

It turned out wonderfully, however on the messiness scale it is a 10!! Very tasty and messy!

This did not do it for me. It was a dry and bland dough. Ended up spending an hour playing with it. Added cinnamon, cayenne, some spiced rum for flavoring. I finally realized it needed a little fat. Added 2 TBL of butter and it was so much better.