Brandy Balls

Ingredients:

2 ½ C. crushed vanilla wafers (1 box)
1 C.ground walnuts
1 cup powdered sugar
3 T light corn syrup
1/3 C. brandy
3 T powdered cocoa
Powdered sugar
(There are two good ways to crush the vanilla wafers; put them in a food processor or blender, or put them into a zip-lock bag and crush them with a rolling pin.)

Directions:

1.Put the crushed cookies, nuts, and cocoa, into a mixing bowl and mix well.

2. Add brandy and corn syrup and mix well again. (An electric mixer with a paddle, if you have one, will be a great help. We feel sure that before electric mixers were in common use, people such as Grandma Block used their hands to mix this stiff dough.)

3. Make 1-inch marble-like balls of dough in your palms and roll in powdered sugar that you have placed in a large bowl. Keep the brandy balls in a tightly covered container .This will keep them fresh for at least a few weeks.. They freeze well indefinitely.