How to make delicious Carob Tahini Rice Puff balls

Here is a great recipe for those who dont like chocolate (or prefer carob) or who just want something a bit different for their Christmas Day sweets.

Ingredients:

• 1 jar tahini
• 1 jar honey
• 250grams carob powder
• 2 cups rice puffs/rice bubbles
• flaked coconut

(This is a slight variation on a recipe from 'Recipes to the Rescue')

Firstly, add tahini and honey to a pot and pop it on the stove element on low heat until the two ingredients melt.  Add carob powder and mix well.

Take off heat, and add rice puffs a little at a time until the rice is coated with the carob tahini mixture. (You may need to add a little more rice puffs- just be sure they are coated with brown sticky mixture)

Fill a low sided container with coconut.

Take one spoonful of mixture (a large tablespoon makes balls that are about the size of an Australian 20 cent piece) and roll it in coconut.  Place each ball on a tray. Continue until you have finished up the mixture.

Chill in the fridge for 20 minutes before serving.

This recipe makes up two of these trays plus a few extra that you can nibble on with a cup of tea that night without spoiling the look of a full plate!

From woh to go, this takes about 20 minutes but you will be loved by all who taste these so it is time well spent.

(We did give these out to parents, along with White christmas balls and an apricot coconut bliss ball- 3 of each in fact- in a handmade box painted and folded by their children in kindy a few years back.  This was the best received present yet!)