Pictured here from start to finish, these holiday cookies are as tempting as the candy for which they are named. The several steps necessary for making them demands a couple of hours but can be split into two sessions. The stiff dough of confectioners sugar, condensed milk, butter, pecans and coconut was mixed and shaped into balls in the morning. Refrigerated till early afternoon, they were then ready to be dipped into semisweet chocolate melted in the top of a double boiler, with a half-cake of paraffin added for shine. In order to have enough of these Mounds Balls for several planned cookie trays, it was extremely important to make these on a day with no kitchen visitors (to prevent subtle thieving, of course!)
Now I know why Riss didn't know where they were hidden!! Her response when I asked where they were..."Doncha think I would have had a bunch already if I knew where they were?!?"
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