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Hawaiian Spam Truffles

Apr 26th, 2009 by prissycook

My mom doesn’t go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink. She says she can’t sleep peacefully unless the sink it empty. Never mind that my Dad and their dog both snore! It’s the dirty dishes that cause her sleepless nights.

I think I learned some great house keeping habits growing up, but I can and often sleep peacefully with dishes in the sink. Now it never fails, in the morning when I get up, I’ll complain, “Why didn’t I take care of those last night!”

Did you catch the title of this post? Spam. Truffles. Let’s just say if you need motivation to do dishes before bed, whip up a batch of Spam Anything for a gag at a Hawaiian themed birthday party! You won’t want one single dish in the sink!

I had it in mind to make a batch of beach themed cupcakes for the birthday party. Let’s face it, that’s what I do. Cupcakes. Everyone should know that if it’s a bring your own dish party, it should always be assumed that I’m going to bring cupcakes. But then out at dinner on Friday (before the party on Saturday) someone said, “I’m going to try to make Martha Stewart’s Red Velvet Cupcakes.”

It left me speechless! I had to think of a plan B. You can’t have two batches of cupcakes at the same party. And that’s when it came to me. I should make something with Spam.

Here’s the motley crew of ingredients that would turn into Spam Truffles. Oh boy!

spam-collage

It was pretty darn interesting working with Spam. If food is about the senses, Spam really does cause a reaction on all five. I would even say it plays with your sixth sense as well (you get the feeling that there’s just something not right about it).

Spam Truffles
Adapted from this recipe from Spam.com

Ingredients

* 1 cup sweetened condensed milk
* 1 package (7oz) sweetened shredded coconut
* 7 tablespoons cream of coconut
* 1 (16oz) German sweet chocolate, broken up
* 12 tablespoons softened butter
* 10 tablespoons pineapple, finely diced dried
* 1 can (12oz) SPAM® Classic, chopped in blender

Directions

1. Heat sweetened condensed milk,don’t boil
2. Turn heat to low
3. Add cream of coconut and chocolate, stir until melted
4. Whisk in butter until smooth
5. Add pineapple and stir
6. Add SPAM
7. Stir until mixed
8. Pour mixture into large glass casserole and refrigerate until thick, but not stiff (20 min.)
9. Using a teaspoon, shape into one inch balls
10. Roll balls in coconut
11. Place on parchment lined cookie sheet
12. To store, keep in a tightly covered container wrapped in lots of foil (will last one month in refrigerator or 2 months in the freezer)
13. The truffles hold their shape best when they’re cool.

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