Cognac Sugar Plums, you little devils you. This is a no-bake, molded cookie, and like a fine wine, it gets better with age. It has a deep chocolate flavor, a nutty texture, and a boozy finish. I found that the dough was a little wet at first to form into a ball. I covered the mixture and let it sit out overnight, so that the melted chocolate had time to harden a bit. This morning I scooped out each dough ball with a small ice cream scoop, and then rolled each one in sugar. Now they are packed away in an air tight container, and will not see the light of day until Christmas Eve., or in a few hours… depending on how my day goes.
I got this recipe from that old standard The Silver Palte Good Times Cookbook. Let’s do it! Pour a mixture of melted chocolate, sugar, corn syrup and cognac over pulverized pecans and vanilla wafers.
Mix it all together, and then let sit at room temperature, or refrigerate until mixture hardens just a bit.
Mold about 2 tablespoons worth of dough into a ball (I used an a small ice cream scoop), and then roll the ball in sugar.
You’ll want to eat them right away, and they would taste just fine, but if you set them aside for two weeks or so they’ll be even better.
- 6 ounces (171 g) Semi Sweet Chocolate, chopped
- 1/2 cup (10 g) Sugar, plus additional for coating
- 1/4 cup (75 ml) Light Corn Syrup
- 1/3 cup (about 100 ml) Cognac
- 2 1/2 cups (173 g) Vanilla Wafers, finely ground
- 1 cup (87 g) finely chopped Pecans
- In a large bowl, stir together the wafer crumbs and chopped pecans. Set aside.
- Place a heat proof bowl filled with the chopped chocolate over simmering water and stir until melted. Stir in the sugar, corn syrup, and Cognac.
- Pour chocolate mixture into wafer/pecan mixture and mix until paste-like.
- Cover bowl and set aside at room temperature (about 3 hours), or refrigerate until mixture hardens a bit.
- Once set, scoop out and roll dough into a 1-inch ball. Roll each ball in additional sugar.
- Store in an airtight container until ready to eat.
- Food processor
- Scale (optional)
- Small ice cream scoop (optional)
