Bourbon Balls

• Serves: approx 3 dozen balls
• Prep Time: 10 min.
• Total Time: 1 hour (unless you nipped a bit too much at the Bourbon and need a nap)

Ingredients

• 7 oz. (200 grams) Nilla Wafers
• 5 oz.(140 grams) Pecans-ground
• 1/2 cups Powdered Sugar
• 4 oz. Semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 TBL Light Corn Syrup
• 1/2 cup Bourbon
• COATING
• 1/2 cup Powdered Sugar

Instructions

Don't preheat your oven, there's no point.

Haul out your food processor (or borrow your neighbor's).

Grind the Nilla Wafers, Pecans and Powdered Sugar all together... until it's a fine-ish grind. Pour into a bowl, set aside.

Melt the Semi-Sweet Chocolate with the Corn Syrup. Use the microwave and a Pyrex measuring bowl, it's easiest. Go 30 seconds... stir.. 30 seconds... stir....30 seconds.... stir (is is smoothish yet?) Go until the chocolate melts.
It may be a bit stiff (seized) but don't panic, stir it the best you can.

Add the Bourbon.. stir. Now, this part will be a bit irritating..but just when you think it will never come together, it kind of does. Do your best.

Pour the wet stuff into the dry stuff... stir them together until it all looks like wet sand.

Cover with plastic wrap or a plate or whatever...stick in the refrigerator for 30 minutes or so. (This is just enough time to read a chapter or two of that book you started 3 months ago, but can't seem to find time to finish).

OK then?

Set up your work space. Get a cookie sheet... or some other flat place to land the balls... and cover it with waxed paper (no, you don't have do... I just sometimes have this strange disorder that causes me to cover surfaces with wax paper to avoid extra washing)
Put your 1/2 cup Powdered Sugar in a Small Bowl
Get the Bourbon Ball blob out of the fridge

Ready?

With a teaspoon, scoop up a bit of the stuff, and roll it between your hands. How much? hmmm. You want a ball to be about 1 inch in diameter...so, the size of a Pecan?

Drop it into the Powdered Sugar, and roll it around.

Set it aside.

Repeat 3 dozen times.

Done.

Now...You can serve these by just sticking them on a plate. And that works.
Or you can get little candy papers (my people tend to go through these kind of fast, so making them look extra fancy is silly.) The Paper liner is best if you are serving them in polite society, or at a party where you don't want other people touching all the food. Ick.