Bourbon Balls

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Cookbook writer John Martin Taylor says that this confection appears successful each Christmas cookbook and astatine each vacation enactment southbound of the Mason-Dixon line. Although astir recipes telephone for utilizing store-bought vanilla wafers, his mother's look calls for shortbread.

The bourbon balls tin beryllium made and refrigerated respective weeks successful advance.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 3-4 dozen balls

For the shortbread

8 tablespoons (1 stick) lightly salted butter, chilled
1/2 cupful superfine sweetener oregon well-sifted granulated sugar
1 cupful unbleached all-purpose flour, dried successful a debased oven and good sifted
1/3 cupful atom flour (found successful earthy nutrient stores; bash not usage Southeast Asian atom flour)

For the bourbon balls

2 cups crushed shortbread
3/4 cupful confectioners' sugar, positive 1/3 cupful for dredging
1 1/4 cups chopped pecans
1/4 cupful unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 cupful airy com syrup
1/3 cupful bourbon oregon sour mash whiskey (may substitute acheronian rum)

Nutritional Facts

Per shot (based connected 48)

Calories
60
Fat
4 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
8 g
Sodium
5 mg
Sugar
4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking: Recipes and Ruminations from Charleston & the Carolina Coastal Plain" Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by John Martin Taylor (University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

Tested by Jim Webster.

Published September 11, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026