Chocolate Bourbon Balls
Total Time: 4 hrs 10 mins
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 4 hrs
Ingredients
- 160 g dark chocolate, finely chopped
- 125 ml whipping cream
- 250 g italian sponge cake fingers or 250 g ladyfingers
- 100 g icing sugar
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 100 g ground almonds
- 100 g finely chopped walnuts
- 3 tablespoons bourbon or 3 tablespoons whiskey
- 180 g butter, melted
- cocoa powder, for dusting
Recipe
- 1 heat cream in a saucepan, stirring till it bubbles.
- 2 remove from heat, add chocolate, stir till it melts.
- 3 whiz the sponge fingers in a food processor, or crush with a rolling pin to fine crumbs.
- 4 sift icing sugar and cocoa powder into a large bowl.
- 5 mix in the crumbs, ground almonds, and chopped walnuts.
- 6 add bourbon, chocolate cream and butter, mix well.
- 7 take a walnut size pinch of the mixture and roll into a ball in your hands.
- 8 note: if it is too wet, add a little more cocoa powder.
- 9 if it is a little too dry, add a dash of bourbon.
- 10 place on greaseproof paper on a tray and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or till firm.
- 11 roll each chocolate bourbon ball in cocoa powder to serve.
- 12 note2: to make it extra special, decorate each with edible gold leaf.
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