No bake - Coconut, Oat & Chocolate Bites

Purely for research purposes I have made four batches of these over the past two weeks! My aim was to test diffferent levels of chocolate v's honey, milk v's plain chocolate and the quantities of oats v's coconut. Below you will find my final, revised and oh so yummy version.

I'll freely admit I'm a huge coconut fan, I like to drink it - in pina coladas in particular, eat it - in thai curries amongst many other recipes and use coconut body cream. So I may have a slight bias to this particular recipe! However, even though the taste is distinctive it doesnt over-power these morsels of yumminess.
I hope you like them as much as my testers did!

The fact that you just mix all the ingredients together and wait is part of the wonderful appeal of these as well as being great fun to make with kids!

You will need:     (Makes 18)
75g shredded unsweetened Coconut flakes
75g Oats (regular porridge oats)
4 tablespoons honey
50g plain (dark) chocolate
75g milk chocolate
100g chocolate (mix of plain and dark is fine - kept aside for topping)
1 tablespoon golden castor sugar (regular is fine golden is better)
50g butter



1. Melt the 50g plain and 75g milk chocolate in a bowl over hot water
2. Melt the butter in a pot and add the castor sugar
3. Let it dissolve over a medium heat for about 2 minutes, just watch that it doesnt burn
4. Add the honey and cook for 30 seconds
5. Remove the melted chocolate from over the water and add oats and coconut to it, mixing thouroughly
6. Add melted butter mixture and combine together
7. Using a greased 2lb loaf pan put the mixture in and spread it out
8. Re-use the bowl to melt the 100g chocolate kept aside and when melted pour
over the coconut mixture
9. Spread it out so it covers the whole mixture
10. Place in the fridge to set - approx 30 minutes
11. Cut into 1" bite size pieces when set and most importantly share & enjoy!

The final bites, now what to do with them??

Note: You can also roll the mix into balls and place in little fairy cake cases if you have a miniture cake tin. Just pop each ball into a little case and drizzle some of the extra melted chocolate over the top. Nice for bringing to someones house for little gifts.