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You can also press the dough into a square buttered baking dish and dust the top lightly with the cocoa mixture. Refrigerate 1 hour and cut into squares. This is known as Jack's Squares perhaps a little less embarrassing title for family Ingredients:
1 pound cake (homemade or store-bought), crushed into coarse crumbs |
1 cup graham cracker crumbs or 1 cup finely ground nuts, any variety |
8 oz. semi-sweet chocolate morsels |
1 can sweetened condensed (not evaporated ) milk |
1 tsp. vanilla extract |
1 shot jack daniels whiskey |
1-2 tbsp. unsalted butter, softened |
1/4 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg |
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar |
1/4 cup cocoa powder |
Directions:
1. Combine pound cake, graham cracker crumbs, and chocolate morsels in a large mixing bowl till well distributed.
2. Combine condensed milk, vanilla extract and whisky, then add to crumb mixture. Use your hands to make sure all the crumbs are saturated.
3. Refrigerated dough for at least one hour to allow the liquid to absorb into the crumbs.
4. Sift nutmeg, confectioner' sugar, and cocoa together into a shallow bowl or a plastic food storage bag,
5. Apply a small amount of the butter to the palms of your hands, then, one heaping teaspoonful at a time, roll the dough into smooth balls, then pop each ball into the cocoa mixture till dusted all over.
6. Repeat until dough us used up. Apply more butter to your hands as needed.
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