22 December 2008

texas millionaire or martha washington candies

My favorite sweet treat of the holidays. The Cupp/Swan family calls these candies 'texas millionaires' but the Weeks family calls these 'martha washingtons'. The exact same recipe in two families!

  • 2 boxes/bags of powdered sugar
  • 2 sticks of butter, melted
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 c chopped pecans
  • 1 1/2 c coconut
  • 12 oz semisweet chocolate
  • 1 cake parafin
  • a few toothpicks or turkey skewers
  1. Mix everything except parafin and chocolate in a bowl or mixer.
  2. Roll 1/2 inch balls of mixture and place on waxed paper lined cookie sheets. Chill in freezer.
  3. Melt chocolate and parafin in metal bowl over boiling water.
  4. Using a toothpick in the sugar balls, dip them in the chocolate, return to cookie sheet, and return to freezer to set. Cover the toothpick whole with a drop of chocolate.
  5. Can be stored in freezer or fridge; can sit out for a few hour before getting too soft.
Yields 100 balls.

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