This recipe for bourbon balls is an old style traditional! This Southern favourite is one anybody will love. Being from Kentucky, we all know all about bourbon balls!
If you happen to love this sweet, additionally, you will love these No Bake Orange Balls. They’re an old style traditional only some substances and are completely great for the vacation season!
❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
These bourbon balls are a traditional sweet that has been round for a lot of a few years. They make a beautiful reward in the course of the vacation season. They’re only some substances, not exhausting to make and all the time successful. Put them in a fairly tin and provides them as a present!
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- unsalted butter
- powdered sugar
- crisco
- pecans, finely floor
- 100 proof Kentucky bourbon (can use roughly and will use one other type of bourbon) *see swaps
- vanilla extract
- semi-sweet chocolate chips
- pecan halves for garnish
SWAPS
In case you are not a bourbon fan or don’t have bourbon, you need to use apple or orange juice in it’s place. We have now made them with apple juice, and so they have been so good! Everybody cherished them. You don’t have to make use of crisco however we discover it provides a smoothness to the chocolate that’s useful and makes it cowl the balls properly.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE KENTUCKY BOURBON BALLS
These are straightforward to make however they do have a couple of steps of placing them within the fridge to relax. In order that half provides time to the method.
DIRECTIONS
Step 1
Cream butter and sugar. Add pecans, bourbon and vanilla extract mixing properly with mixer. Chill this combination within the freezer for half-hour or fridge for an hour.
Step 2
Take away from freezer and make into balls utilizing a couple of teaspoon of combination for each. Place on wax or foil paper on cookie sheet and put again within the freezer for 30 extra minutes or fridge for an hour.
Step 3
When half-hour are up, soften the chocolate chips and crisco about 2 minutes within the microwave. (The smaller the container or bowl you utilize to soften the chips the better it’s to dip the bourbon balls within the chocolate). Some individuals use a toothpick to carry the bourbon balls. It’s simpler for me to only drop them within the chocolate and use a wood spoon or fork to cowl.
Step 4
Take away every bourbon ball and place on a clear piece of wax paper or foil on cookie sheet. Add a pecan half on high. Place in fridge for at the very least half-hour till chocolate hardens. Retailer in fridge. Makes about 15-20 bourbon balls, relying on the scale you make them.
⭐TIP
These genuine Kentucky bourbon balls are all the time successful and this recipe is one many individuals love. Simply verify the feedback. If the chocolate begins to get too exhausting for dipping, simply warmth it up once more and stir it properly. If the balls begin to heat earlier than you dip them within the chocolate, you’ll be able to all the time set them again within the fridge to harden up some. Take your time, and we put them out and in of the fridge a couple of instances so we are able to get the coated the way in which we like.
When melting the chocolate within the microwave, solely do about 20-30 seconds at a time after which stir.
RECIPE VARIATIONS
If you happen to learn the swaps above you’ll be able to change out the bourbon, and you might additionally change out the vanilla with different flavors too. Nevertheless, for genuine Kentucky Bourbon Balls that is the way in which to make them.
❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
That’s appropriate, measure out a 1/2 cup after which chop them up for the recipe.
Sure, you’ll be able to style it since these aren’t any bake, the bourbon isn’t “baked” out.
No, you do not want to maintain them within the fridge however we expect they’re nice chilly, so we do.
STORING
These will maintain for a couple of weeks saved in an hermetic container. You may simply make these upfront for the Christmas holidays and they’re a beautiful reward.
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SERVING SIZE
This recipe makes 15-20 bourbon balls and may simply be doubled.
Kentucky Bourbon Balls
These Kentucky Bourbon Balls are an quaint southern traditional! The proper Christmas deal with or reward!
- 1/2 cup or 1 stick unsalted butter not margarine, softened(I exploit natural)
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup pecans finely floor
- 4 tablespoons 100 proof Kentucky bourbon can use roughly and will use one other type of bourbon
- 1 teaspoon crisco
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips melted
- pecan halves for garnish
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Cream butter and sugar. Add pecans, bourbon and vanilla extract mixing properly with mixer. Chill this combination within the freezer for half-hour or the fridge for an hou. Take away from freezer and make into balls utilizing a couple of teaspoon of combination for each. Place on wax paper on cookie sheet and put again in freezer for 30 extra minutes or the fridge till exhausting.
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When half-hour are up, soften the chocolate chips and crisco about 2 minutes within the microwave. When melting the chocolate within the microwave, solely do about 20-30 seconds at a time after which stir. (The smaller the container or bowl you utilize to soften the chips the better it’s to dip the bourbon balls within the chocolate). Some individuals use a toothpick to carry the bourbon balls. It’s simpler for me to only drop them within the chocolate with a fork and use a wood spoon or one other fork to cowl. Take away every bourbon ball and place on a clear piece of wax paper on cookie sheet. Add a pecan half on high. Place in fridge for at the very least half-hour till chocolate hardens. Retailer in fridge. Makes about 30 bourbon balls relying on the scale you make them.
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If the chocolate begins to get too exhausting for dipping, simply warmth it up once more and stir it properly. If the balls begin to heat earlier than you dip them within the chocolate, you’ll be able to all the time set them again within the fridge to harden up some. Take your time, and we put them out and in of the fridge a couple of instances so we are able to get the coated the way in which we like.
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