Sweet
Bombici
Balls of crushed biscuit, cocoa and dried fruit rolled in coconut — a cake that needs no oven.
Recipe from Туѓино Јабано
- Prep
- 40 min
- Cook
- —
- Total
- 40 min
- Fasting
- Not suitable
Ingredients 9 ingredients
Method
- Crush the biscuits finely — in a processor, or in a bag with a rolling pin if you want a rougher texture.
- Chop the figs or dates very small and soak them in the rum, if you are using it.
- Heat the milk, sugar, cocoa and butter in a pan, stirring until melted and combined. Do not let it boil.
- Pour the hot mixture over the crushed biscuits, nuts and dried fruit and stir until you have a thick mass that holds together.
- Let the mixture cool and firm for about thirty minutes. Warm it is too soft to shape, and chilled overnight it goes too hard.
- With damp hands roll balls the size of a walnut and roll them in desiccated coconut.
- Keep them in the fridge in a closed box. They last a week and are better from the second day.
If you cannot find it
Substitutions that work outside Macedonia.
- Plain biscuits
- Digestives or petit-beurre; sweeter biscuits need less sugar.
- Dried figs
- Raisins, dried apricots or dates — whatever it is, chopped very small.
- Desiccated coconut
- Ground walnuts, cocoa, or fine sugar pearls.
