Orange Balls – A No-Bake Recipe

Orange Balls (a no-bake recipe)

We have made these easy orange balls for many years and they are so simple even children can make them. I’ve enjoyed making these with my children and grandchildren.

I hope you like them too.

Ingredients:

1 box vanilla wafers crushed (I do this in my food processor)

 One pound powdered sugar

1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans)

6 oz. orange juice concentrate thawed undiluted

1 stick margarine melted

** coconut to roll the balls in

Directions:

Combine the crushed wafers, powdered sugar, nuts, and orange juice. After these first ingredients are blended I add the melted margarine and blend again.

Shape about 1 Tablespoonful into a ball and roll in coconut. Place in a paper cup or on your tray.

These dry out quickly so you need to roll them in the coconut quickly or keep them covered.  If you are not making them all at once then cover the remainder of the dough and refrigerate it. This makes about 6 or 7 dozen.

Orange Balls
Orange Balls Ingredients

Merry Christmas! Free Book

Merry Christmas

Most of my childhood and adult memories around Christmas come from spending time with family. Baking together, crafting together, doing puzzles, going caroling, watching Christmas classics on TV.

Many years ago when the kids were young we would make Christmas Sweet Trays to sell. I still make them mostly to gift. I wrote a small ebook about my Baking for Profit experience and published it way back when. For the next week (18-25) you can download it for free. It contains many of the recipes I make around the holidays. Several are no bake and kid friendly recipes even for younger children.

I hope this year you will enjoy time with your family baking, laughing, singing, and just being together. These memories endure.

Free Book

To enjoy this free download open the shop tab and look for the Baking for Profit ebook.

Baking for Profit
Baking for Profit

 

Christmas Strawberries

Christmas Strawberries

When I was a child, we received this recipe for Christmas strawberries, as a gift from the bank. The bank gave a collection of recipes printed on index cards as a gift at Christmas time. This was one of the recipes from that collection. I do not know who created the recipe.  I have been making these for many many years.

Christmas Strawberries ( a no-bake, gluten-free recipe) 

Christmas Strawberries
Christmas Strawberries

2 – 6 oz. packages of strawberry jello

2 cups chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans) and 2 cups of coconut

1 can condensed milk

1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring

**Red and green sugar are needed to roll the berries in

Empty dry jello into a bowl; add nuts, coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and vanilla. Blend. I blend in my mixer. Keep the mixture covered until you are ready to shape because this mixture will dry fast. With your hands shape two teaspoonfuls into a strawberry shape and roll the pointed end in red sugar. Then dip the large end in green sugar. You may let them dry on waxed paper or place them in paper cups. These can be stored in the fridge for a week if they last that long. You may freeze strawberries for up to 6 months. This recipe makes about 80 strawberries. They look beautiful on trays! I grew up with this recipe and always receive a lot of great comments about the taste and appearance of these little strawberries.

Add color to trays.

Christmas Strawberries
Christmas Strawberries