Coco Apple Sweet

_ Coconut apple sweets are very cute and delicious.
_I used peanuts, fresh coconut and milk powder to make these sweets.
_ You can surprise your guests with these tiny apple sweets for a party.

Ingredients required:
- One cup peanuts
- Half cup Sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup Milk powder
- One cup blended fresh coconut
- Crushed cardamom
For decorating :
- Cloves
- Red food colour
- Paint brushes
- Pumpkin seeds or pista

- First step is to blend the fresh coconut.
- Take the fresh coconut pieces and transfer to blender and blend them.
- We need one cup of the blended coconut.

- Next add little Butter or Ghee in a vessel and add One cup of blended coconut .Roast the coconut until it changes its colour little brown.
- Roasting the coconut gives nice flavour to the sweet.

- Take one cup of peanuts in a vessel and dry roast them until they pop up and turn crisp.

- After roasting the peanuts transfer them to a plate and cool down.
- peel the skin by rubbing them in a cloth or by using hands

- Transfer the peeled peanuts to a blender
- Blend to powder
- (Don't over blend because it will release oil and turn in to paste)

- Add 1/4 cup milk powder to the blended peanut powder and give a mix
- Milk powder and coconut gives nice flavour and taste to the sweet

- Now take half cup of sugar in a vessel and add 1/4 cup of water .
- Bring the syrup to boil and keep mixing .
- If we touch the syrup with our fingers and stretch it we should get a one string consistency as shown in my images.our sugar syrup is ready.

- Add peanut milk powder slowly little by little and not
all at once.keep mixing continuosly.

- After adding the entire peanut milk powder mixture to the syrup we get little crumbled texture and not like a paste .
- Don't switch off the stove.Now add the previously prepared roasted coconut powder and give a mix.
- Cook this just for few minutes and switch off the stove.
Tips :
( We need to use only fresh coconut .The moisture in fresh coconut is enough to make it in to apple shape)

- Add crushed cardamom.Cardamom gives nice flavour to the sweet.

Take small portion of the mixture and shape in to ladoo shape or a round ball shape.

Place Clove at the centre and slightly press the sides to create an apple shape

Repeat the same procedure with entire mixture and make all the apples.

- I mixed 1/4 teaspoon Red food colour with one or two teaspoon water.
- Using paint brush paint the apple with red food colour .Leave the rim area without painting to give an apple look

- Paint all the apples and dry them for few minutes.

- You can decorate with pumpkin seed as a leaf.
- ( we can also use pista for a leafy look)
- Delicious apple sweets are ready.You can surprise our guests with these apple sweets for a party.