{"id":1775003,"date":"2022-12-14T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775003"},"modified":"2022-12-14T11:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:47:35","slug":"these-bourbon-balls-are-the-only-thing-you-need-to-bring-to-your-christmas-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-bourbon-balls-are-the-only-thing-you-need-to-bring-to-your-christmas-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"These Bourbon Balls Are The Only Thing You Need To Bring To Your Christmas Gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthese-bourbon-balls-are-the-only-thing-you-need-to-bring-to-your-christmas-gatherings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775003&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As a child, my relationship with unsweet baker\u2019s chocolate was one of suspicion. <em>Why would they take something sweet and delicious like chocolate and make it bitter? <\/em>I remember one December, when my very organized father uncharacteristically forgot that the chocolate he was melting in a double boiler on the stove was unsweetened and thoughtfully offered for me to lick the spoon. The sharpness that hit my expectant middle-schooler palate was disappointing, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can appreciate that unsweetened chocolate has a place \u2014 and its place is atop the delectable treat my dad was making that evening. <\/p>\n<p>Drizzled in baker\u2019s chocolate, these bourbon balls are a staple of my family\u2019s Christmas celebrations. We serve them to gathered family members on Christmas Eve after church. We sneak tastes of them off the trays stashed in the refrigerator. We box them up and give them to friends as gifts. We bring them to parties at other people\u2019s houses. <\/p>\n<p>The recipe comes from one of the best sources out there, second only to handwritten recipes passed down from family, friends, and church potlucks: those \u201980s-era, annual Southern Living hardcover anthologies of recipes submitted by readers who have collected them from <em>their<\/em> family, friends, and church potlucks. It\u2019s from Judy Cunningham of Roanoke, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ll need:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 cup chopped walnuts<\/p>\n<p>1\/4 cup bourbon (it\u2019ll be mixed with plenty of other flavors, so no need to use anything too fancy. Jack\u2019ll do fine.)<\/p>\n<p>16 oz. sifted powdered sugar<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup melted butter<\/p>\n<p>8 oz. unsweet chocolate<\/p>\n<p>1 tbsp. shortening<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoak walnuts in bourbon at least 3 hours,\u201d Judy writes. \u201cDrain. Combine walnuts, sugar, and butter. Shape into 3\/4-inch balls; chill at least 30 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, \u201ccombine chocolate and shortening in top of a double boiler; heat until melted and smooth, stirring occasionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judy suggests using a skewer to dip the balls into the chocolate, but my family has found it\u2019s quicker (and just as tasty) to leave the bourbon balls spread out on wax paper on a cookie sheet and drizzle them generously with the chocolate. However you choose to do it, the only step left is chilling them in the refrigerator, where you can keep them stored. <\/p>\n<p>Whether you need a last-minute gift that\u2019s more personalized than a gift card, a sweet finger food to bring to a Christmas party, or just a festive snack to make while your home is full of visiting family, add this recipe to your repertoire. <\/p>\n<p> Elle Purnell is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her work on Twitter @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you need a last-minute gift, a finger food for a Christmas party, or just a festive snack, add this recipe to your repertoire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1775006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8951,8949,8940,6922,6919,8950],"class_list":["post-1775003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-balls","tag-bourbon","tag-bring","tag-christmas","tag-federalist","tag-gatherings"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}