The Best Way to Spread Christmas Cheer Is Rolling Bourbon into a Sphere!
For many years one of my holiday traditions is to make bourbon balls. I always get requests for the recipe, so here it is, adapted from "A Cooking Affair" by Jan Bertoglio and Jo Le Hudson, 1984, p. 286. Steve's Famous Balls 5 dozen vanilla wafers (a typical 11 oz box contains about 7 dozen vanilla wafers) 1 cup pecans 6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips 1/2 cup sugar 3 tablespoons light corn syrup 1/2 to 3/4 cup bourbon (you can guess which end of the spectrum I end up on) Using a food processor, crush the vanilla wafers in batches yielding 2 1/2 cups of finely crushed cookie crumbs. Finely chop the pecans in the food processor; then, combine the crushed wafers and chopped pecans in a large bowl. Melt chocolate chips in the top of a double boiler. Remove from heat and stir in sugar and corn syrup. Blend the bourbon into the chocolate mixture, stirring until well-combined. Add the bourbon-chocolate mixture to the crushed wafers and ...