Martha Washington Candy
photo by Jonathan Melendez
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
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4 dozen balls
- Serves:
- 48
ingredients
- 2 lbs confectioners' sugar (sifted)
- 1⁄2 cup butter (softened)
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (NOT evaporated milk)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 cups pecans, chopped
- 1 (12 ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 ounce paraffin wax
directions
- Cream butter, sweetened condensed milk and vanilla.
- add confectioner's sugar, mix well.
- Add pecans, mix well.
- Roll into 1 inch balls and put in freezer for 30 minutes.
- Melt chocolate chips and paraffin in double boiler over low heat, until melted.
- Dip ball into chocolate mixture, one piece at a time, holding with a tooth pick.
- Drop on wax paper.
- Store in refrigerator.
- Note: You can add two cups of coconut or chopped maraschino cherries or any extract you would like.
Questions & Replies
Reviews
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This is fabulous!!! My BF has been telling me about these candies that his Grandma made when he was a kid. Recipe lost, family has been without them for thirty years...til now!!! I am making a huge batch of these for his family for Xmas -- it will be the first time I'm meeting most of them, so you just helped me score major bonus points with them!!! Thanks so much - BF says they are PERFECT!!!!
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I made this candy years ago and didn't take time to find my recipe so found this one but when I started mixing it up, I found that I would like to see a video of the person mixing this recipe. I see noooo way for 8 ounces of condensed milk to wet all these ingredients enough to roll them out. I called my sister whom I had given the recipe to years ago and it called for a 14 ounce can which I barely got mixed enough to roll. I really think that can of condensed milk used to be 15 ounces but I did get them rolled out with the 14 oz.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Joyce Heddin
Forney, Texas
I am into low carb at this time.