Martha Washington Candy

prep time:: 15 minutes
total time:: 30 minutes

Makes 50 candy pieces

This is a recipe we made every Christmas. All my Christmas memories include this candy! I loved to help my Mom make the chocolates and dip them into the melted chocolates and wax,

ingredients

2 boxes powdered confectioners sugar
2 cups pecans
1 cup melted butter (2 sticks of margarine soft)
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 block of paraffin
2 12 oz packages of chocolate chips
2 cups coconut-optional

directions

1
Mix sugar, butter, vanilla and milk until well blended. Add nuts. You can split the dough and add coconut to part of it, and leave part plain.
2
Roll in balls and chill in refrigerator.
3
Melt over a bain Marie (bolling water in double boiler pan, mixture in the top pan) chocolate chips and paraffin. You can substitute the Almond bark melting chocolate for this.
4
Stick a toothpick in candy balls and dip in chocolate mixture. Dot hole left by toothpick with a dot of chocolate. Place on waxed paper to cool.

Source: Delaina