Bourbon Balls - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pkg. (6 oz.) semi sweet chocolate pieces
1/2 c. sugar
3 Tbsp. light corn syrup
1 c. finely chopped walnuts
1/3 c. bourbon
1 pkg. (7 1/4 oz.) vanilla wafers (42 wafers) finely crushed
Extra sugar for rolling cookies

Preparation

Melt chocolate over hot water.
Remove from heat and stir in 1/2 cup sugar and the corn syrup.
Blend in bourbon.
Combine crumbs and nuts,
add chocolate mixture and blend well.
Shape quickly into 1-inch balls and roll in sugar.
Store in airtight container and let stand several days to ripen before serving. Makes 4 1/2 dozen.