5 Ingredient Bourbon Balls Recipe • Kath Eats

This simple 5 ingredient bourbon balls recipe is a household favourite and makes an important 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 full of over 100 folks, 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 numerous different appetizers and desserts. Satirically, yearly I might eat a bourbon ball and assume “that is disgusting!!” (That is most likely 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 liked an Previous Common, and my grandfather at all times ordered a Manhattan. So that you may say that the style of bourbon balls jogs my memory of my childhood in the best possible method. That’s most likely 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 alternative, and bourbon is the booze, however you can too 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 simple and brings on the bourbon.

You may need to warn anybody who doesn’t drink that these aren’t any bake. Don’t provide to seven 12 months previous boys ; )

A More healthy 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.

For those who 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 thought of rolling them in one thing superfood, however the powdered sugar is a should for the skin.

This model is barely extra bitter with out all of the powdered sugar inside, however if you happen to like darkish chocolate, you’ll love the swap. Rolling them in melted chocolate and may be a enjoyable concept too!

Prime with a pecan for an additional contact.

5 Ingredient Bourbon Balls Recipe

Elements

• 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 are going to burn.

Step two: make crumbs

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

Step three: make dough

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

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 full of waxed paper or parchment or fill a jar and tie with a bow to present as a present! Retailer at room temperature.

Right here’s an previous picture 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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