Ready to add a little Danish magic to your dessert table? At DK Design Kitchens, we’re sharing these no-bake Coffee & Kahlúa Oatmeal Balls. They are simple to make, wonderfully rich, and guaranteed to spread Christmas cheer. They’re just one of the cozy recipes featured in Kristine Lindbjerg’s Let’s Hygge Christmas e-Book, a free Christmas e-Book for baking, creating, and celebrating the season the Danish way.
About the CHRISTMAS e-Book
The book gathers the Danish author’s preparations, celebrations and traditions for Christmas. She shares some of her heirloom Christmas recipes, how to make handmade decorations, favourite white flowers, and some of the traditions she was brought up with in Denmark and some new ones she have created living here in Australia.
CLASSIC DANISH OATMEAL BALLS WITH COFFEE & KAHLÚA
These Danish Oatmeal Balls are the taste of a Danish Christmas. As a child, our neighbour, a lovely elderly lady, Jenny, always made these. She looked after us as children and became family. I inherited the Blue Fluted Plain Bonbonnière from her, so I thought it would be fitting to serve them in it. I’ve put my own twist on her recipe by adding a splash of Kahlúa!
INGREDIENTS (makes about 50 pieces):
- 250g quick oats
- 150g raw sugar
- 50g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 75g desiccated coconut
- 150g organic butter (room temperature)
- 1/2 cup strong coffee
- 1 tbsp Kahlúa
- a pinch of salt
Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
Crumble in the butter, then add the coffee and Kahlúa.
If the mixture is too sticky, add a little more oats or coconut. If it’s too dry, add a bit more coffee.
Shape the mixture into small balls and roll them in shredded coconut.
About the Author
The author of the Christmas e-Book and creator of DK Design Kitchens new visual identity is the Danish Graphic Designer Kristine Lindbjerg. She has lived in Sydney, Australia, for the past 13 years with her husband and two sons.
She divides her time between working and living in the city and spending most weekends and holidays in the countryside at Turon Gates. She thrives in nature as it is where she refuels and gets inspired, but at the same time, she adores the buzz of the city and the amazing window decorations created by international brands in the city stores. She likes her life of contrasts: being in the garden in gumboots and dressing up with feathers for a party.
Being Danish, CHRISTMAS comes with a lot of beautiful traditions. It’s very important for her to pass these traditions on from her grandparents and parents to the next generation.
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