No-bake Lime Balls

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup salted butter, softened (1 stick)
• 1 (1 lb) box confectioners' sugar, sifted if lumpy (about 3-3/4 cups)
• 1 (6 ounce) can frozen limeade concentrate, thawed (minute maid suggested)
• 1 tablespoon key lime juice
• 2 drops green food coloring (optional)
• 1 (14 ounce) box vanilla wafers
• 1 cup shredded coconut (angel flake coconut suggested)

Recipe

• 1 prepare a cake pan by lining it with wax paper. do not preheat the oven; these lime balls are not baked.
• 2 sprinkle the confectioners' sugar on top of the softened butter in a large mixing bowl and mix it all up. you can do this by hand or by using your electric mixer.
• 3 add thawed limeade and mix in thoroughly. add the lime juice and mix inches add the green food coloring, if you decode to use it, and mix that in thoroughly.
• 4 crush the vanilla wafers using a food processor or by putting them in a plastic freezer bag and crushing them with a rolling pin. add the crushed wafers to your bowl and mix them inches.
• 5 place the coconut in the food processor and chop it up even finer. transfer to a medium-sized bowl.
• 6 using clean hands, form balls from the mixture that are about the size of bonbons. a 2-teaspoon scooper makes the perfect size.
• 7 when you've finished forming each ball, roll it in the bowl of coconut to oat it, and then place it in the cake pan.
• 8 when you've finished forming and coating all your lime balls and placing them in the cake pan, cover them with another sheet of wax paper and refrigerate them for 2-3 hours before serving. if you are making them several days ahead of time, over the cake pan with a sheet of aluminum foil and secure it tightly. keep pan in the refrigerator until you're ready to use.
• 9 if you're giving these as gifts, place each ball in a paper mini-muffin cup and place in candy boxes. remember to tell the recipient to keep them refrigerated.