KENTUCKY BOURBON BALLS – The Southern Girl Cooks

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!

For those who love this sweet, additionally, you will love these No Bake Orange Balls. They’re an old style traditional just a few elements 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 an exquisite present throughout the vacation season. They’re just a few elements, not arduous 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 form of bourbon) *see swaps
• vanilla extract
• semi-sweet chocolate chips
• pecan halves for garnish

SWAPS

If you’re not a bourbon fan or don’t have bourbon, you should use apple or orange juice in it’s place. We’ve got made them with apple juice, and so they had been so good! Everybody beloved 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 nicely.

🍽️HOW TO MAKE KENTUCKY BOURBON BALLS

These are simple to make however they do have a number 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 nicely 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 few 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 employ to soften the chips the simpler it’s to dip the bourbon balls within the chocolate).  Some folks use a toothpick to carry the bourbon balls. It’s simpler for me to simply 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 a minimum of 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 test the feedback. If the chocolate begins to get too arduous for dipping, simply warmth it up once more and stir it nicely. If the balls begin to heat earlier than you dip them within the chocolate, you possibly can 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 number of instances so we will get the coated the best way we like.

When melting the chocolate within the microwave, solely do about 20-30 seconds at a time after which stir.

RECIPE VARIATIONS

For those who learn the swaps above you possibly can change out the bourbon, and you would additionally change out the vanilla with different flavors too. Nonetheless, for genuine Kentucky Bourbon Balls that is the best way to make them.

❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

STORING

These will hold for a number of weeks saved in an hermetic container. You’ll be able to simply make these upfront for the Christmas holidays and they’re an exquisite present.

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SERVING SIZE

This recipe makes 15-20 bourbon balls and may simply be doubled.

Kentucky Bourbon Balls

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These Kentucky Bourbon Balls are an quaint southern traditional! The proper Christmas deal with or present!

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

2 hours hrs

Complete Time 2 hours hrs 15 minutes minutes

Course sweet

Delicacies American, southern

• 1/2 cup or 1 stick unsalted butter not margarine, softened(I take advantage of 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 form of bourbon
• 1 teaspoon crisco
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips melted
• pecan halves for garnish

• Cream butter and sugar.  Add pecans, bourbon and vanilla extract mixing nicely 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 few 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 arduous.

• 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 employ to soften the chips the simpler it’s to dip the bourbon balls within the chocolate).  Some folks use a toothpick to carry the bourbon balls. It’s simpler for me to simply 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 a minimum of half-hour till chocolate hardens.  Retailer in fridge.  Makes about 30 bourbon balls relying on the scale you make them.

• If the chocolate begins to get too arduous for dipping, simply warmth it up once more and stir it nicely. If the balls begin to heat earlier than you dip them within the chocolate, you possibly can 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 number of instances so we will get the coated the best way we like.

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