Sweden / Cakes & baking
Chokladboll (Swedish Chocolate Balls)
A chokladboll (literally meaning chocolate ball) is a traditional Swedish pastry often eaten with coffee during fika. They are quick and easy to prepare, since they require no baking and only a few, common ingredients.
Ingredients
- quick oats, 500 g / 1.1 lb, quick3 1/4 cup
- white granulated sugar, 275 g / 9.7 oz1 1/4 cup
- cocoa, 75 g / 2.6 oz6 tbsp
- vanilla sugar or vanilla extract, 15 ml / 14 g / 0.49 oz; or 1 tsp (5 ml / 0.17 oz) vanilla extract, added with the coffee1 tbsp
- butter or margarine, 160 g / 5.6 oz, softened; or margarine2/3 cup
- cold coffee, 90 ml / 3 oz, cold6 tbsp
- flaked coconut or pearl sugar, or pearl sugar
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Mix oats, sugar, vanilla sugar, and cocoa in a large bowl.
Using your hands or a potato masher, incorporate the butter into the dry ingredients until the dough has an even consistency.
Add the coffee and mix until incorporated.
Fill a small bowl with flaked coconut or pearl sugar.
With your hands, roll the dough into 1-inch (3 cm) diameter balls.
Roll each ball in the coconut or pearl sugar and place on a tray.
Chill chocolate balls for at least one hour before serving.
