Chocolate-Wine Balls
Submitted by srittenh
No-bake chocolate wine balls rolled in sugar, made with crushed vanilla wafers, ground walnuts, honey, and sweet red wine. They get better with age, like a fine confection should.
YIELD
3 servingsPREP
25 minCOOK
0 minREADY
3 daysThese are the holiday treats your grandmother kept in a tin and doled out one at a time, because she knew they got better by the day.
Melted chocolate chips and honey bind together crushed vanilla wafers and ground walnuts, with sweet red wine tying it all together. Roll them in sugar, tuck them into a jar, and forget about them for a few days.
The flavor deepens and mellows over time. A week is good. Two weeks is better. They’ll keep for up to a month, though they rarely last that long.
Kitchen Tips
- Crush the vanilla wafers finely. Coarse crumbs make the balls crumbly and hard to shape.
- Use a sweet red wine like port or a dessert Zinfandel. Dry wine makes the flavor too sharp.
- Let them rest at least 2 to 3 days before serving. Fresh out of the jar they taste one-dimensional, but time blends everything together beautifully.
Ingredients
Directions
Heat chocolate chips and honey in 3-quart saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate is melted.
Remove from heat.
Stir in vanilla wafers, walnuts and wine.
Shape into 1-inch balls; roll in sugar.
Store Chocolate-Wine Balls in tightly covered cookie jar or metal can.
Let stand several days to blend flavors.
Flavor improves with age up to 4 weeks.
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