5-minute Chocolate Balls

This recipe is from Instructables.com

A food processor will help you cut through this recipe in a cool five minutes or less!

·                               1 1/4 cups (120 grams) vanilla wafer cookies, shortbread, or graham crackers (about 35 Nilla brand wafers)

·                               1/2 cup (55 grams) powdered (confectioners) sugar

·                               2 tablespoons (12 grams) cocoa powder (Dutch processed or regular unsweetened cocoa powder)

·                               2 tablespoons light corn syrup

·                               1/4 cup (60 ml) COLD* liquid: juice; rum; water + rum extract (or your favorite); or whatever else you can imagine -- I did one batch with OJ and one with rum

·                               1 1/2 cups (140 grams) pecans (hazelnuts, walnuts, or almonds can be used - and toasting them beforehand makes them awesome! but will probably result in longer than 5 minutes)

·                               1/2 cup (55 grams) topping - crushed nuts, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, flaked coconut, go crazy

Makes about 2 dozen decent-sized chocolate balls.

*the liquid being cold will help the balling process and reduce or even eliminate the need to refrigerate before shaping