Amy is another blogger I met at BEA and actually knew her by name from comments on the blog so it was so fun to meet her in person! Amy reads so many wonderful books I have to be careful going to her blog because I tend to leave with a wish list! 😀
Sheila
First of all, thank you so much Sheila for asking me to write up a guest post. I hope you are having a wonderful time in Honduras and I’m glad I can do a little bit to help you out while you are there!
Christmas is seriously one of my favorite times of the year. I love picking out the perfect gift for people, I love the kindness of strangers, how so many people donate to charities and food banks to help others, I love the music, and ummm… I really really love the food!
One of my favorite things to do at Christmas is my baking. I love taking a day or two to relax, play some Christmas music, and make treats that I can share with family and friends. And eat myself of course! And among all of my baking and treat making, my absolute favorite Christmas treat are Cherry Balls! They are delicious, and super easy to make.
Cherry Balls
1 1/2 cup icing sugar
1/2 cup margarine
1 1/2 cup fine coconut
2 tbsp cream or milk
1 tsp almond flavoring
1 package of baking cherries
1 package of flaked coconut
Mix the first ingredients well and place in the fridge until cold and hard. Use your hands to wrap each cherry in the mixture, and then roll in the coarse or flaked coconut.
Keep refrigerated.
Oh, and I recommend some Michael Buble and Amy Grant Christmas music to listen to while baking, of course. They are both pretty awesome 🙂
I’ve been lucky enough to have already done a lot of my baking this year. I know it is early, but I’ve had family visiting so I took a few days in mid-November to go out to my parents house and visit. While there, I did some of my baking.
I hope you all enjoy the Cherry Balls, and have a wonderful Christmas! Thank you again to Sheila for letting me share.
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Oh, these sound yummy! I’m a big fan of anything with coconut, so I’m sure I’d be addicted in short order.
Thanks for sharing!
They are incredibly easy to make laurelrainsnow, which is the other reason that I love them! I hope you enjoy 🙂
These should be called cherry bombs for me since if I ate them, my waistline would explode. 🙂 Come to think of it, where is my waist – I know I used to have one somewhere?
Hehehe that is a great name for them Rural View!!
Since there is no actual baking involved I may have to give this one a try. Thanks for sharing with us and Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you as well Ryan, and I do recommend trying these, they are so simple to make!
Thank you so much for having me Sheila!
I bet my husband would really like these – he loves cherries!
They are so easy to make Alyce! I hope that he does 🙂
I am excited to see the picture.
In Indonesia we call it Onde-Onde.
But we dont fill it with Cherry.
It’s Gula Merah. Kind of sugar which taste good.
I’d love to try Onde-Onde with cherry inside.
Oh that sounds tasty Aleetha. Sounds very similar just without the cherry!
The cookies look so YUM Amy! Thank you for guest posting while I was away!
Thanks for having me Sheila 🙂 Welcome back!
Thanks for the recipe. I wonder, could you substitute amaretto or brandy for the almond flavoring?