Gather your ingredients together.
There are two good ways to crush the vanilla wafers;
put them in a food processor or blender, or put them into a zip-lock bag and crush them with a rolling pin.
A food processor works well. Or you can use a rolling pin to crush them inside a bag.
I added a teaspoon
of vanilla for that (extra umph that vanilla brings out)
Put the crushed cookies, nuts, and cocoa, into a mixing bowl and mix well.
Add the brandy (or rum if you want).....
...and corn syrup and mix well again.
(An electric mixer with a paddle, if you have one, will be a great help. We feel sure that before electric mixers were in common use, people such as Grandma Block used their hands to mix this stiff dough.)
Make 1-inch marble-like balls of dough in the palms of your hands or a small scoop,
and roll in powdered sugar that you have placed in a large bowl.
here is a finished Brandy Ball.
You can do these up and keep them in a plastic storage container, They keep well
indefinitley.
I like to package them in a cookie tin for gifts. Line it with tissue is a good idea. |
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