Christmas Coconut Gingerbread Balls

7. 10. 2025

You will love this Christmas cookie! The combination of gingerbread, marmalade, chocolate, and eggnog is incredibly addictive and will become your holiday tradition.

Ingredients

For the dough:

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 1/7 cane sugar
• 1 spoon of honey
• 1 spoon of cocoa
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon of plum jam
• 1 1/2 all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 2 teaspoons of gingerbread spice

For balls:

• 7 oz eggnog
• 4 spoons of plum jam
• 1/2 cup chocolate
• 1/2 whipping cream
• grated coconut for coating

Method

• Put the butter, sugar, and honey in a saucepan.
• Allow the mixture to dissolve, and add the plum jam.
• Beat the eggs in a bowl with a fork, add the milk and mix.
• Add melted butter, sugar, and honey in a bowl with eggs and milk.
• Finally, mix in all the pre-mixed loose ingredients for the dough.
• Pour the finished dough onto a greased baking sheet.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for about 35 minutes.
• Remove the baked dough from the oven.
• Let the dough cool and cut it into small pieces.
• Transfer the pieces to a larger bowl.
• Melt the chocolate in the hot whipping cream.
• Gradually add the plum jam, eggnog, and melted chocolate with cream to the bowl with the dough pieces.
• Knead the resulting mass thoroughly with your hands and shape it into balls, which you wrap in coconut.
• Enjoy your meal!

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