Whiskey Balls

Name: Whiskey Balls
Yield: Yield: About 3 Dozen.
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 2 cups confectioners’ sugar; ½ cup bourbon; ½ cup unsweetened cocoa; ½ cup finely chopped pecans; Salt, if desired; 3 cups vanilla wafer crumbs; 3 tablespoons light corn syrup

Preparation info

Yield: About
3 Dozen

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1987

About

This confection—or at least a version of it—was an early Southern version of those chocolate truffles that became the rage for chocolate lovers during the 1980s in this country. The whiskey balls are made, of course, with cocoa rather than chocolate.

Ingredients

3 cups vanilla wafer crumbs
½ cup finely chopped pecans
½

Americas
United States
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Blend together the crumbs, nuts, cocoa, 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, bourbon, corn syrup, and a dash of salt. Form into small balls the size of walnuts.
Roll each ball in the remaining 1 cup