{"id":57,"date":"2009-02-09T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T11:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/09\/2009-02-09-snow-balls\/"},"modified":"2022-02-26T22:12:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T22:12:23","slug":"2009-02-09-snow-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/2009-02-09-snow-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a great candy for kids, who tend to be big fans of white chocolate. However, if you are<\/i> making these for kids, you’ll want to omit the alcohol and add 2 more tablespoons of cream or milk to the mixture in step 2.
CLOCKWATCH: The white chocolate mixture has to be chilled for 1 hour before you can roll the balls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Total time: 1 hour 25 minutes<\/span>
Hands-on time: 25 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ingredients:<\/strong>
12 ounces white chocolate chips
1\/4 cup heavy cream
1-1\/4 cups slivered almonds (6 ounces), very finely ground
2 tablespoons bourbon or dark rum
1-1\/2 cups flaked coconut <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1.<\/b> In a bowl set over a pan of hot, not boiling, water, melt the chocolate in the cream. Stir until smooth.
2.<\/b> Stir in the almonds and bourbon. Pour the mixture into an 8-inch square pan. Chill, uncovered, until firm, about 1 hour.
3.<\/b> Cut into 64 squares. Roll each square into a ball and then roll in the coconut. Chill the balls until ready to serve. <\/p>\n

Makes 64 snowballs<\/strong>
Each snowball has: 56 calories, 3.9 g fat (1.8 g saturated), 1 g protein, 4 g carbohydrates (0.3 g fiber), 3 mg cholesterol, 10 mg sodium.<\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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This is a great candy for kids, who tend to be big fans of white chocolate. However, if you are making these for kids, you’ll want to omit the alcohol and add 2 more tablespoons of cream or milk to the mixture in step 2. CLOCKWATCH: The white chocolate mixture has to be chilled for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,96],"tags":[32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmatera.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}