This straightforward 5 ingredient bourbon balls recipe is a household favourite and makes a terrific addition to any vacation cookie swap or occasion dessert unfold!
Bourbon balls are my all-time favourite Christmas cookie.
When we have been younger, my dad and mom used to throw an enormous Christmas occasion yearly. The home was full of over 100 folks, and my mother spent the entire week earlier than preparing for the occasion.
Mom made cheese straws, sherry cheese dip, and these bourbon balls, amongst numerous different appetizers and desserts. Ironically, yearly I’d eat a bourbon ball and suppose “this is disgusting!!” (This might be how a ten yr outdated youngster ought to describe the style of robust bourbon taste!)
But as I tasted one yr after yr, I grew to like bourbon balls – and bourbon!
Bourbon is definitely our household drink.
My grandmother cherished an Old Fashioned, and my grandfather all the time ordered a Manhattan.
So you would possibly say that the style of bourbon balls jogs my memory of my childhood in the very best manner.
That’s in all probability why I really like them a lot.
What is a bourbon ball?
Traditional bourbon balls are a mixture of cookie crumbs, pecans, sugar, cocoa powder, corn syrup, and bourbon rolled in powdered sugar.
Nila wafers are the favored cookie of selection, and bourbon is the booze, however you can even make these as rum balls, with flavored vodka and even moonshine!
I’ve heard to make official Kentucky bourbon balls you may’t use vanilla wafers, and a few recipes name for soaking the nuts in bourbon first.
I like to stay to this recipe as a result of it’s tremendous straightforward and brings on the bourbon.
You would possibly wish to warn anybody who doesn’t drink that these are not any bake. Do not supply to seven yr outdated boys ; )
A Healthier Bourbon Ball
In an try to make these a *little* bit more healthy with extra actual meals, I subbed the dough’s sugar for coconut and traded the corn syrup for honey.
I considered rolling them in one thing superfood, however the powdered sugar is a should for the surface.
This model is barely extra bitter with out all of the powdered sugar inside, however for those who like darkish chocolate, you’ll love the swap. Rolling them in melted chocolate and is perhaps a enjoyable thought too!
Top with a pecan for an additional contact.
5 Ingredient Bourbon Balls Recipe
Ingredients
- 12 ounce field of vanilla wafers
- 1 cup pecans
- 1 cup coconut flakes
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp honey
- 1/4 cup booze!
- confectioners sugar for rolling
How To Make Bourbon Balls
Step one: toast pecans
Put them in your toaster or oven for just some minutes at 400*. Do not look away or they are going to burn.
Step two: make crumbs
Add vanilla wafers, pecans, coconut and cocoa to your meals processor. Pulse till you could have a superb wafers crumbs combine.
Step three: make dough
Pour crumbs right into a mixing bowl and add honey and bourbon. Mix properly with fingers till a dough types.
Step 4: roll into balls
Roll into about one inch balls. Set each apart on a plate or baking sheet as you roll.
Step 5: roll in powdered sugar
Store them in a tin stuffed with waxed paper or parchment or fill a jar and tie with a bow to offer as a present! Store at room temperature.
5 Ingredient Bourbon Balls
This straightforward 5 ingredient bourbon ball recipe is a household favourite and makes a terrific addition to any vacation cookie swap or occasion dessert unfold!
Ingredients
- 12 ounce field of vanilla wafers
- 1 cup pecans
- 1 cup coconut flakes
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp honey
- 1/4 cup bourbon
- confectioners sugar for rolling
Instructions
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Toast pecans. Put them in your toaster or oven for just some minutes at 400*. Do not look away or they are going to burn.
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Make crumbs. Add vanilla wafers, pecans, coconut and cocoa to your meals processor. Pulse till you could have a superb wafers crumbs combine.
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Pour crumbs right into a mixing bowl and add honey and bourbon. Mix properly with fingers till a dough types.
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Roll into about one inch balls.
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Roll in powdered sugar
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Store in a tin stuffed with waxed paper or parchment at room temperature.
Here’s an outdated picture of mother and me earlier than her annual Christmas occasion, all dressed up. We look fairly fancy don’t we 😉
And right here is me with Gram having fun with some bourbon drinks
