Bourbon Balls

 

Bourbon Balls an tardily no-bake cookie that’s been a household unit of measurement favorite for generations. Grab a bottle of your favorite bourbon or rum as well as mix upward these delicious grownup vacation treats.

These lovely piffling gems are ever a large hitting wherever they pop-up.  Bourbon Balls require no cooking as well as alone a few happy ingredients. Our Bourbon Balls are super tardily to brand too. If yous don’t teach to them for Christmas, maybe yous tin john pose them on your New Year’s Eve menu.

Someone 1 time told me non to purpose the “good stuff” to brand these cookies. They suggested that I purchase inexpensive bourbon or rum to purpose inwards recipes.  I idea most this for a piece as well as believe they are totally incorrect when it comes to this particular recipe.  The smoother the firewater, the ameliorate the cookie, if yous enquire me.  I similar a expert polish bourbon anyway, but unfortunately I’m a lightweight when it comes to drinking. I tin john teach a buzz from these cookies if I haven’t eaten a expert breakfast!

This was my mother’s recipe for Bourbon Balls. Mom ever kept her baked goods out inwards the mutual frigidity garage inwards one-time fruit cake tins. I scream upward every bit a immature girl, nosotros would sneak out into the garage to swallow 1 or ii of these stiff piffling confections.  I intend Mom must have got counted the cookies, because somehow she ever knew we’d been into the tins. Moms ever know 🙂

Be sure to grate your pecans for this recipe, it makes all the departure inwards the texture. Plus I’m non sure how much you’ll require if yous purpose chopped pecans. To teach far super easy, purpose a small-scale cookie scoop to brand these Bourbon Balls. Once yous scoop out the dough, curlicue it firmly betwixt your palms until they shape a nice, tight, bite-sized ball. Roll the balls inwards powdered saccharide as well as fix them aside for most an hour. Re-roll the cookies inwards to a greater extent than powdered saccharide as well as store inwards an air-tight container inwards a mutual frigidity garage or refrigerator.

These cookies are truly ameliorate the adjacent solar daytime subsequently the bourbon has had fourth dimension to blend amongst the other ingredients.

The Bourbon Balls tin john last bold as well as range yous a piffling buzz if yous swallow every bit good many, hence accept it tardily particularly at an portion vacation party! These are our son’s favorite Christmas treats – hence these are for him.  Come as well as teach ’em Patrick!

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Bourbon Balls

Prep Time

30 mins

 

A elementary no-bake cookie as well as household unit of measurement favorite for generations. Make amongst your favorite bourbon or rum for a delicious grownup treat

Course:

Dessert

Servings: 50 Cookies

Ingredients

• 
  3
  cups
  vanilla wafers,
  crushed (11oz box)
  


• 
  1
  cup
  ground pecans
  


• 
  1
  cup
  powdered sugar,
  plus 2 cups for rolling
  


• 
  1 1/2
  tablespoons
  cocoa powder
  


• 
  3
  tablespoons
  light corn syrup,
  or Lyle’s Golden Syrup
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  bourbon or rum
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   In a medium mixing bowl, combine the crushed vanilla wafers, Earth pecans, 1 loving cup of the powdered saccharide as well as the cocoa powder. Whisk to combine.
   
   


2. 
   
   In a 1-cup measurement cup, whisk together the corn syrup as well as bourbon. Add the bourbon mixture to the dry out ingredients as well as crease together using a spatula until all ingredients are combined. It may seem dry out at first, but piece of job on mixing, it volition all come upward together.
   
   


3. 
   
   Place 1 to 2 cups of powdered saccharide inwards a apartment bowl or rimmed plate. Roll the dough (firmly) into 1-inch balls (or purpose a small-scale cookie scoop), as well as hence straight off curlicue inwards the powdered sugar. Place the cookies on a wax newspaper lined baking sheet. Continue rolling until all cookies are coated inwards powdered sugar. Set the cookies aside for 1 hour, as well as hence curlicue over again inwards the powdered sugar. Store the bourbon balls inwards an airtight container inwards the fridge for upward to 2 weeks.
   
   

Recipe Notes

Notes: Be sure to purpose Earth pecans, non chopped.

Makes fifty cookies

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We have got a few recipes featuring bourbon hence if you’re looking for more, cheque out our tardily Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars amongst Bourbon & Sea Salt, and this creamy, polish Butterscotch-Bourbon Pudding. If you’re crazy for nuts, you’re going to honey this Bourbon & Butterscotch Nut Tart – hence delicious! I truly desire to whip upward a batch of these Bourbon Salted Caramel Candy from A Spicy Perspective. And, terminal but for certain non least, caput over to The View from Great Island as well as drool over her beautiful Black Bottom Bourbon Pecan Pie, wow!

Happy shopping as well as baking my friends!  Thanks hence much for stopping by.

 Tricia

Originally posted Dec 11, 2010, updated Dec 2017

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