This straightforward 5 ingredient bourbon balls recipe is a household favourite and makes an excellent addition to any vacation cookie swap or occasion dessert unfold!

Bourbon Balls Recipe

Bourbon balls are my all-time favourite Christmas cookie.

After we have been younger, my dad and mom used to throw an enormous Christmas occasion yearly. The home was filled with over 100 individuals, and my mother spent the entire week earlier than preparing for the occasion.

Mother made cheese straws, sherry cheese dip, and these bourbon balls, amongst a lot of different appetizers and desserts. Sarcastically, yearly I’d eat a bourbon ball and suppose “that is disgusting!!” (That is in all probability how a ten 12 months previous little one ought to describe the style of sturdy bourbon taste!)

However as I tasted one 12 months after 12 months, I grew to like bourbon balls – and bourbon!

Bourbon is definitely our household drink.

My grandmother cherished an Previous Common, and my grandfather all the time ordered a Manhattan. So that you would possibly say that the style of bourbon balls jogs my memory of my childhood in the best possible method. That’s in all probability why I like them a lot. 

What’s a bourbon ball?

Conventional 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 may as well 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 need to warn anybody who doesn’t drink that these are not any bake. Don’t provide to seven 12 months previous boys ; )

A More healthy Bourbon Ball

In an try and 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.

In the event you aren’t chasing a more healthy model, you may swap the coconut for 3/4 a cup of powdered sugar and the identical quantity of honey for mild corn syrup. 

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 in case you like darkish chocolate, you’ll love the swap. Rolling them in melted chocolate and could be a enjoyable thought too!

High with a pecan for an additional contact.

5 Ingredient Bourbon Balls Recipe

Components

• 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

The 1st step: toast pecans

Put them in your toaster or oven for only a few minutes at 400*. Don’t look away or they may burn.

Step two: make crumbs

Add vanilla wafers, pecans, coconut and cocoa to your meals processor. Pulse till you’ve a positive wafers crumbs combine.

Step three: make dough

Pour crumbs right into a mixing bowl and add honey and bourbon. Combine effectively with arms till a dough types.

Step 4: roll into balls

Roll into about one inch balls. Set every one apart on a plate or baking sheet as you roll.

Step 5: roll in powdered sugar

Retailer them in a tin crammed with waxed paper or parchment or fill a jar and tie with a bow to present as a present! Retailer at room temperature.

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5 Ingredient Bourbon Balls

This straightforward 5 ingredient bourbon ball recipe is a household favourite and makes an excellent addition to any vacation cookie swap or occasion dessert unfold!

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Servings 30 bourbon balls

Components

• 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

Directions

• Toast pecans. Put them in your toaster or oven for only a few minutes at 400*. Don’t look away or they may burn.

• Make crumbs. Add vanilla wafers, pecans, coconut and cocoa to your meals processor. Pulse till you’ve a positive wafers crumbs combine.

• Pour crumbs right into a mixing bowl and add honey and bourbon. Combine effectively with arms till a dough types.

• Roll into about one inch balls.

• Roll in powdered sugar

• Retailer in a tin crammed with waxed paper or parchment at room temperature.

Right here’s an previous photograph of mother and me earlier than her annual Christmas occasion, all dressed up. We glance fairly fancy don’t we 😉

And right here is me with Gram having fun with some bourbon drinks

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