Colourful Coconut ladoos

Makes a variety of flavours

Ingredients:

1 tin condensed milk

1/2 kg grated coconut (can be fresh or dry)

For flavouring

2 tablespoons cocoa powder

2-3 drops flavoured essence (mango, rose,pista,vanilla)

1/2 teaspoon or a few drops edible colour ( yellow for mango, red for rose, green for pista)

Add 8-10 tablespoons condensed milk in 5 separate bowls. Add the cocoa powder to one and mix, mango essence and yellow colour to the next, rose essence and red colour to the one after, followed by pista essence and green colour and finally vanilla essence in the last one.

Add some of the grated coconut in each of the bowls and ensure the mixture is hard enough and can be shaped into balls. The mixture mustn't be too hard or too soft.

Roll the balls in dry coconut and your colourful coconut ladoos are ready.

You may add nuts to the ladoos. If you add nuts, dry roast them before you add them to your ladoos.

Vanilla essence can be substituted for almond essence.