1 cup stale cake crumbs or crushed vanilla wafers
1 cup ground pecans
2 tablespoon light corn syrup
1/4 cup good bourbon whiskey
Confectioner’s sugar
Mix cake crumbs or wafers with ground pecans. Add the corn syrup and whiskey and mix well until mixture holds together. You will be able to knead it slightly with your hands. Take a teaspoon full of dough at a time and mold into balls. Roll the balls in the confectioner’s sugar and place on ungreased cookie sheet for several hours to dry. Roll in sugar once more and store in a box with tight fitting lid. Separate layers with waxed paper. Store in refrigerator.
Yield: about 20 bourbon balls.