Tim Tam & Milo Coconut Balls

Finding Feasts - Tim Tam & Milo Coconut Balls
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Woohoo! My first post for 2016! Yikes, where does the time go to these days? It seems that one day I am packing for an exciting overseas Christmas holiday and the next I am getting ready to celebrate Australia Day.

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!

Dorothy Mackellar

Happy Australia Day for tomorrow everyone! A day of celebrating and paying respect to our rich and diverse culture and heritage. A day of cranking up the barbie and feasting on lamb, meat pies, sausage rolls, lamingtons, and pavlovas whilst listening to a bit of Triple J’s Hottest 100 and partaking in a game of backyard cricket. For those like me who have no backyard, it is a case of watching it on the television.

Finding Feasts - Tim Tam & Milo Coconut Balls

If you are one of many hosting an Aussie day BBQ tomorrow and have left the dessert off the list, or just plainly forgotten about it, then these Tim Tam, Milo and Coconut balls are too easy to make.

Finding Feasts - Tim Tam & Milo Coconut Balls

We celebrated Aussie Day lunch last year at Blondie’s place and from memory it was one of those typical hot and humid days. I had volunteered to make dessert and wanted to make something with an Australiana  theme, other than lamingtons and something that didnt need to be baked. IGA was selling Tim Tams for half the price so the ball idea began.

No cooking, no mess no fuss but yummy!

Bella 🙂

Finding Feasts - Tim Tam & Milo Coconut Balls

Golden Gaytime Ice Cream Log w/ Malteser Centre

Finding Feasts - Gaytime and Malteser Dessert
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Australia Day has been and gone for this year but I just couldn’t  hold out for another year before putting this gem of a dessert up, Golden Gaytime Ice Cream Log w/ Malteser Centre! Who am I to decide when this should or should not be eaten!?

I have been meaning to make a dessert inspired by this true Australian icon for quite a while now but when I had both the Gaytime ice creams and Maltesers in my kitchen at the same time, then my all time Australia Day dessert just magically flowed from my fingers.

For those of you unaware of this delicious ice cream treat, it consists of a vanilla and caramel flavoured ice cream, dipped in a thin layer of chocolate and then covered in a honeycomb crumble. The only way to eat it is to let it ‘rest’ for about 5 minutes (obviously the time will alter depending on how hot it is that day) this lets the honeycomb crumble soften slightly making each mouthful a taste and textural sensation!

Finding Feasts - Gaytime and Malteser Dessert 1

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, OI!  Blondie