Almond Joy Candy

Title:
Almond Joy Candy

Yield:
1 Servings

Categories:
Candies




Ingredients:





     1 cn Condensed milk; sweetened


          -14 oz


     2 oz Chocolate; unsweetened


   1/4 ts Salt


     1 ts Vanilla


     3 c  Coconut; shredded


    45    Almonds; whole, salted






 Preheat oven to 350F. In top of double boiler, combine condensed milk,


 chocolate and salt. Cook over rapidly boiling water; stirring often, for 5


 to 7 minutes, or till until mixture thickens. Remove from heat and stir in


 vanilla and coconut. Form cookies by dropping teaspoons of mixture on well


 greased baking sheet, 1" apart. Top each with a whole almond. Bake on


 middle sheet of oven for 10-12 minutes, watching cookies carefully after


 8-9 minutes,as the bottom can get too brown. Immediately remove cookies


 from pan with metal spatula and cool on wax peper covered rack.


 


 These taste a bit like the chocolate bars; hence the name. They freeze


 well. from _Heartland: The Best of the Old and the New from Midwest


 Kitchens_


 


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