Thursday, June 11, 2020

Authentic Kentucky Bourbon Balls




They 're creamy, shiny, decadent, and tasty. It's the Southern delicacy of the sweet boozy sweetness of sugar, pecans and bourbon.

 Ingredients:

3/4 cup chopped pecans
3 Tablespoons Woodford Reserve Kentucky bourbon
1/4 cup butter softened
3 cups powdered sugar sift and measure carefully
16 oz semi-sweet chocolate
Optional toppings - pecan halves chopped pecans, walnuts or almonds, cocoa powder, confectioners' sugar, sea salt

Blend the pecans and the whiskey in a bowl and let it ferment for an hour.
Cream butter and sugar together using a an electric mixer until creamy.
Add the pecans and bourbon to the butter and the sugar mixture.
Chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Roll in 1 inch balls and position on a cookie sheet blanketed with waxed paper. Refrigerate for 2 hours.

Melt the chocolate in the microwave at intervals of 30 seconds until it has melted, mixing after each interval. Using only a fork to hold the bourbon ball, dip each chocolate ball entirely. Keep a ball over chocolate for a few seconds to allow the excess to drip off. Bring it back on the waxed paper to cool fully.

Whether you want to finish with a pecan quarter, almonds, or salt, push gently onto the top of the ball immediately before the chocolate cools and hardens.

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