{"id":113,"date":"2004-11-01T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2004-11-01T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T14:20:10","slug":"maggot-balls-dulce-de-leche-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2004\/11\/maggot-balls-dulce-de-leche-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggot Balls (Dulce de leche bites)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"maggots.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/archives\/maggots.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"192\" border=\"0\" align=left><img alt=\"\" width=11 height=192 src=\/img\/dot.gif\" align=left>When we went to the Halloween store, Michaela picked up a bag of  Halloween petit four paper cups and I went ahead and bought them.  I didn&#8217;t want the purchase to be useless, so I decided to make these easy candies that have been a favorite of mine since I was a little kid. They are rolled on shredded coconut so we decided to call them Maggot Balls.<br \/>\nThey weren&#8217;t as big a hit with others at the party as I&#8217;d had expected.  Well, it just meant there were more for me! \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nAll the proportions are approximate, as I didn&#8217;t measure when I made them.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\n<b>Maggot Balls<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 tbsp butter\n<li>1\/2 cup 1-minute oats\n<li>2\/3 cup dulce de leche\n<li>1\/4 cup cocoa\n<li>a dash of cognac, rum or another liqueur\n<li>shredded sweetened coconut\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mix all the ingredients save for the coconut together in a small saucepan.  Heat over medium heat until they all melt and can be easily combined, stir well.  Take off the heat and let the mixture cool down.  Take a teaspoon of mixture in your hands and roll into a ball.  Roll on the shredded coconut, put in a paper cup or directly a serving sheet.<br \/>\nWhen they are all done refrigerate before serving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}