Classic Snowball Recipes

Steps:

• Place cereal and prunes in a food processor or blender; cover and process until cereal is crumbled. Add raisins, apricots and pecans; process until finely chopped. , Shape in 1-in. balls; roll in confectioners' sugar. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Roll in sugar before serving.

Steps:

• Fill a glass with ice and if using, add up to 15ml of lime juice or lime cordial (or to your taste). Pour the advocaat and lemonade over the ice and stir gently until the outside of the glass feels cold.
• Garnish with the maraschino cherry.

Steps:

• Gingerbread Syrup (yield is approximately 1/2 gallon):
• Crack or smash the dried spices (do not grind).
• Toast dry spices in a dry saucepan over medium­high heat, until aromatic.
• Cool pan, then add water and bring to a boil; allow to boil for 3 minutes.
• Lower heat and add sugar, ginger and molasses and heat again until simmering and sugar has dissolved.
• Cool, then pour through a fine mesh strainer to remove graininess of spices and bottle.
• Snowball Old Fashioned:.
• In a mixing glass, combine all ingredients with cracked ice and stir well.
• Strain into a Miracle double rocks glass, zest lemon over drink then add ice snowball.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Pulse sweetened and unsweetened coconuts, granulated sugar, and salt together in a food processor until flaked coconut is finely chopped. Add whites and water and pulse until mixture is moistened and holds together when squeezed.
• Roll level tablespoons of coconut mixture into balls with wet hands (you'll need to rinse your hands every 3 or 4 balls). Make an indentation in center of each ball and insert a piece of chocolate, then pinch hole closed and reroll into a ball. Arrange balls 1 inch apart on a parchment-lined large baking sheet.
• Bake macaroons in middle of oven until bottoms are golden and balls are puffed but still white, 13 to 15 minutes. Slide macaroons on parchment to a rack to cool completely, then peel off paper. Dust macaroons lightly with confectioners sugar just before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Cream the butter with 1/2 cup of the confectioners' sugar and the vanilla. Mix in the flour, pecans, and salt. Roll about 1 tablespoon or so of dough into balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake in preheated oven until bottoms are golden, about 15 minutes. Do not allow these cookies to get too brown: it's better to undercook them than to overcook them. While cookies are still hot, roll them in confectioners' sugar. Once they have cooled, roll them in confectioners' sugar once more.