Booze Balls
This easy recipe for booze balls made from dark chocolate and amaretto makes a great edible gift to send to loved ones for the holidays.
Servings: 66
Calories: 60kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 175 grams dark chocolate (70 % cocoa content) or your favourite dark chocolate
- 45 mL light corn syrup
- 300 grams vanilla wafers or other grocery store plain cookies like social tea cookies
- 120 grams ground almonds or chopped walnuts
- 63 grams icing sugar
- 125 mL amaretto liqueur
- Granulated sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate over a double boiler or in the microwave at 50% power. Set aside.
- Add the corn syrup and stir well to mix.
- In the bowl of a food processor, combine the vanilla wafers with the chopped nuts. Process the mixture to form fairly fine crumbs.
- Add the powdered sugar, amaretto, and melted chocolate mixture.
- Mix really well until it forms a cohesive mass.
- Let stand about 20 minutes and then form the mixture into 1-inch balls (roughly 13 grams mixture per ball).
- Roll the balls in granulated sugar. Store in an airtight container.
Notes
- Chocolate—I used 70 % dark chocolate by Cacao Barry (specifically called Ocoa). It is not too sweet. You can use any semisweet to bittersweet chocolate that you like. Try to pick something you think will go well with the alcohol and nuts you are incorporating in these booze balls
- Nuts—this recipe is even easier if you use ground almonds, but you can use any nut, especially walnuts or pecans. Grind them in a food processor if you can to make them easier to incorporate and to give the truffles a finer texture. Pistachios would also be amazing here (but this would be more expensive).
- Nut-free—if you want to make nut-free booze balls, replace the nuts with sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds. Grind them as finely as possible.
- Cookies—I used plain social tea biscuits which are quite affordable and readily available in grocery stores. You could also use vanilla wafers or even graham crackers/graham cracker crumbs but the latter will add more flavour to the chocolates.
- Alcohol—I love to use amaretto, but you could also try Kahlua for a coffee-flavoured booze ball, Frangelico for a hazelnut-flavoured booze ball, Cointreau for an orange-flavoured booze ball, or any of your favourite liqueurs. You could also try bourbon or rum. The resulting chocolates will be slightly less sweet but still delicious!
- Coating—I always coat booze balls in granulated sugar or superfine sugar. I love how this looks. You could also roll them in cocoa powder or icing sugar if you prefer. Another option is to coat the truffles in a very thin layer of melted chocolate and then roll in ground nuts.
Nutrition
Calories: 60kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 19mg | Potassium: 31mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 1IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 1mg
