Chocolate Orange Balls

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 48
• 1 (9 ounce) box vanilla wafer cookies
• 2 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/3 cup orange juice concentrate
• 1/4 cup light corn syrup
• 1 1/2 cups pecan pieces

Recipe

• 1 in a food processor, combine the vanilla wafers, 2 cups of the confectioner's sugar, cocoa powder, orange juice concentrate, and corn syrup.
• 2 process until the cookies are ground to crumbs and mixture is evenly blended.
• 3 add the pecan pieces and pulse process until the nuts are finely chopped.
• 4 transfer the mixture to a bowl and form into 1" balls.
• 5 roll balls in 1/4 cup confectioner's sugar** to coat.
• 6 store in an airtight container in refrigerator for up to 1 month.
• 7 **we always rolled our balls in regular granulated sugar. if we made them at christmas time, we dyed some of the sugar green and some of the sugar red and rolled 1/2 the balls in the green sugar and 1/2 the balls in the red sugar.