LaCour Gourmet Bourbon Balls

Recipe Category: Dessert

This recipe added by buffalogal on February 18, 2007.

Amazingly delicious chocolate balls simply dripping with bourbon. Essence of bourbon. No delicate infusions here. It's the real thing. Legend has it you could fall into a diabetic coma before you'd ever get pulled over for drunk driving. Two of those and you'll have to take a taxi home...

Serves 30

Ingredients

  • 12 cups crushed vanilla wafers (4 Original Nilla boxes)
  • 3/4 cup dark corn syrup
  • 6 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 4 cups icing sugar
  • 5 cups chopped pecans
  • 3 cups bourbon

Directions:

Mix vanilla wafers, corn syrup, cocoa powder, 4 cups icing sugar, 4 cups pecans, and bourbon. Refrigerate 12 hours.

Shape into balls. Roll balls into remaining finely chopped pecans. Keep cool or refrigerated.

Makes about 6 dozen.

Credits: Martin Booe, Relish Magazine, December 2006.