Made the not-rum balls tonight. Took about two hours (an hour to get the skins off the hazelnuts and toast them, and an hour to prep and form the balls). Not sure how they taste. I decided to go all hazelnut on them -- ground toasted hazelnuts and Frangelico for the liquor. We'll see what kind of reviews they get. It didn't make a huge batch, so I was debating either making another batch tomorrow or making an orange ball with Nilla Wafers and Grand Marnier. But I've tried to move away from everyone getting some of everything -- some people are just going to get screwed out of certain things :)
Tomorrow I'm going to work on the gingerbread recipe. I want to try to use some of this crystalized ginger that I bought instead of powdered or fresh. I might use a mix of the crystallized and some fresh (for more bite). One person on the list is allergic to citrus, and the gingerbread calls for lemon extract, so I was going to try to avoid that. More to the point, I'm fairly certain that the Colonial Williamsburg residents didn't have lemon extract :)
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