These are like old-fashioned bourbon balls, but updated with honey and English shortbread cookies.
Ingredients
3 (4-oz.) bittersweet chocolate baking bars, chopped
3 tablespoons honey
1 1/2 tablespoons cold butter, cubed
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
8 tablespoons heavy cream
1/4 cup bourbon
1 (5.3-oz.) package English pure butter shortbread cookies, crushed (such as Walkers Shortbread)
2 cups finely chopped roasted, salted pecans
Waxed paper
Preparation
1. Combine first 4 ingredients in a large glass bowl. Cook cream and bourbon in a small saucepan over medium heat 3 to 4 minutes or until mixture is hot but not boiling. (Mixture will steam, and bubbles will form around edge of pan.) Pour cream mixture over chocolate. Let stand 1 minute.
2. Stir chocolate mixture until melted and smooth. (If mixture doesn’t melt completely, microwave at HIGH 30 seconds.) Stir in crushed cookies. Cover and chill 3 hours or until firm. (Mixture can be prepared and chilled up to 2 days ahead.)
3. Shape mixture into 1-inch balls (about 2 tsp. per ball). Roll in chopped pecans. Place on waxed paper-lined baking sheets. Chill 1 hour. Store in an airtight container in refrigerator up to 5 days.
Oh, my, this is definitely going to be made in our truffle-fixated household! Forwarding it to my daughters right now!
This is another of my “once or twice a year” recipes! We had bourbon balls and peanut butter swirls at Derby time and Christmas!! 🙂
Oh, you are very well-behaved. Due to the excess number of enthusiastic bakers in this house, something like that always gets made far too many times.
Oh, I’m a cupcake-a-holic, if you couldn’t tell by my previous posts. 🙂
I guess we all have our own special weaknesses!
This looks amazing! It is on our list for Derby party snacks. Thanks!
-Jeanne
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You are very welcome!! 🙂
I fear following your blog is going to make my waist line expand 😀 xxx
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What a fantastic idea! Delicious.
These have been around in Kentucky in some form or another for ages! They are really good. 🙂
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I really like these! I think I might add them to our menu! Thanks!!!