Happy Balls! Handmade Kentucky Bourbon Candy

Happy Balls! Handmade Kentucky Bourbon Candy The ultimate handmade bourbon buttercream candy. We only use Knob Creek 9-year-old single barrel bourbon and Guittard dipping chocolate.

A luscious handmade Bourbon butter cream ball studded with our "drunken" bourbon-soaked pecans is then hand-dipped in semi-sweet chocolate. It takes 3 aging/curing processes (a total of 60 hours) to make a Happy Ball. Happy Balls have found their way to Denmark, China, Germany, France, Lebanon, Scotland, England and Israel.

Your dad's new favorite shirt. From his favorite kid. Happy Father's Day!GetHappyBalls.com(shipping all week for Fathe...
06/13/2026

Your dad's new favorite shirt. From his favorite kid.
Happy Father's Day!

GetHappyBalls.com

(shipping all week for Father's Day)

Throwback Thursday to 2018 when we first took over the business and introduced the t-shirts. This was our first market ...
06/11/2026

Throwback Thursday to 2018 when we first took over the business and introduced the t-shirts. This was our first market with both red and blue.

We've been talking about how many shirts we've sold over the years. It's amazing how many of you have not just one, but 2, 3 or more of our shirts. We do have some pretty great options these days. And all thanks to David over (who happens to be celebrating 10 years in the Print Shop - CONGRATS!)

Thank you to all of you who wear our fun shirts and !

Looking for everyone's favorite Father's Day treat?GetHappyBalls.com
06/09/2026

Looking for everyone's favorite Father's Day treat?

GetHappyBalls.com

I don't know about you and where you are, but here in the Lou it's a bit gloomy today and we need to perk up and therefo...
06/08/2026

I don't know about you and where you are, but here in the Lou it's a bit gloomy today and we need to perk up and therefore we need some caffeine.

That means our Boozy Coffee Balls! to the rescue! Some espresso powder, coffee liqueur and all topped with an espresso bean hits the spot. Have you tried the Bean Tavy! Boozy Coffee Balls!?

We've all been obsessed with Artemis II, right? You know we have been here at Happy Balls! Central Command. The takeof...
04/07/2026

We've all been obsessed with Artemis II, right? You know we have been here at Happy Balls! Central Command.
The takeoff, the moon flyby, the naming of newly spotted craters, the audacity of humans to blast off into Space! And splash back down to Earth! It's all so exciting!

And it's a fun reminder of the time we were able to celebrate sending some Happy Balls! to the International Space Station when we had a friend living up there for 9 months. It was just a sweet treat (two boxes of 4-packs) enclosed in his moral shipment sent by his wife on the unmanned resupply, but we Happy-ly claim our spot as the Unofficial Bourbon Ball of the ISS. We put a little taste of Kentucky up there. And then we commemorated it with this shirt. Of course.

Breaking into a Dream D**g this first day of April. Isn't this the perfect way to celebrate such a wonderful month ahea...
04/01/2026

Breaking into a Dream D**g this first day of April.
Isn't this the perfect way to celebrate such a wonderful month ahead?

We're looking forward to Easter, Earth Day, Thunder Over Louisville and the whole Kentucky Derby Festival leading up to the Kentucky Derby in May. So lots of days to celebrate with a little splash of bourbon and chocolate.

Have you tried our cream-filled cake that is spritzed with bourbon, covered with our dipping chocolate and sprinkled with sea salt? If not, perhaps you need one for your Easter basket. Or your Thursday evening.

Go ahead...sing it like a sweet little jingle in your head. Think barbershop quartet. Throw in some jazz hands. Maybe...
03/02/2026

Go ahead...sing it like a sweet little jingle in your head. Think barbershop quartet. Throw in some jazz hands. Maybe some air trombone. That's it!

It's a gloomy March day here in Louisville and looking like a bit of a grey week ahead. Where is that spring-like weather again? Such a tease!
So perhaps maybe you need a little extra Happy?

You know where to find them: GetHappyBalls.com or at one of the local stores carrying them (lists on the website)

Throwback Thursday!This is us hand dipping with toothpicks. One at a time. Doing things the hard way by scooping the b...
02/27/2026

Throwback Thursday!

This is us hand dipping with toothpicks. One at a time. Doing things the hard way by scooping the buttercream with a cookie scooper, rolling by hand, dipping and then placing on finger-made chocolate "footprints" on the cooling table. It was a lot. We had such small batch orders that it was doable then, but painful in the shoulder and wrist and it really limited the time we had to grow. We were so grateful for the slowly growing momentum of people learning of and then loving our Balls! to the point we needed to fill increasing sizes of orders, both wholesale and our loyal online customers. But how?

We have been so fortunate to see our business grow and grow to the point that we started a new buttercream molding process and HAD to buy the chocolate enrober (magical chocolate waterfall)...we're a bit past the toothpick era. But it's still just the two of us working daily in the candy kitchen together, having dance parties, listening to true crime podcasts and packing each and every order.

Thank you this TBT for giving us a reason to work together, to grow and to still deliver the biggest and best bourbon balls on the market to you!!!

📸 Selfie circa 2020 as we prepared for Courier Journal article about our Happy Balls! making it to the International Space Station for Astronaut Drew Morgan to enjoy and share.

Didn't get what you needed for Valentine's Day? We've got Happy Balls! and Dream D**gs for days around here and are rea...
02/16/2026

Didn't get what you needed for Valentine's Day?

We've got Happy Balls! and Dream D**gs for days around here and are ready to send out your satisfying treat!

What is it you wanted and didn't get?

Absolutely nuts about you, Valentine!💘💘💘
02/14/2026

Absolutely nuts about you, Valentine!

💘
💘
💘

Address

516 West Saint Catherine Street
Louisville, KY
40203

Telephone

(502) 216-7330

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Happy Balls! Handmade Kentucky Bourbon Candy posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share