My Secret Rum Ball Recipe
(First published on Dec. 15, 2011 at my previous blog The Desert Rocks)
Easy Holiday Rum Balls
These make a perfect hostess gift and will be
remembered long after the sugar cookies, date nut bread, even the fudge has been scarfed down and forgotten. I’ve made them for years and often hear people on wobbly legs, leaving with their designated driver saying things like,
“Who made those rum balls? I have to get the recipe.”
Five years have passed and I figured you might want to try these again. After all, it's been a tough year and rum might help numb some of the pain or anxiety but please don't use rum balls as a gateway to the harder stuff like Bourbon Truffles or Brandy eggnog cocktails. Try the rum balls and always use caution when operating machinery.
1 cup powdered sugar
3 cups crushed vanilla wafers (The best part of this recipe is that
you can use up older cookies or cakes instead of the vanilla wafers)
Typically, I use graham crackers but one year I used
Leftover chocolate cake and oh my goodness they were fantabulous!
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
3 tablespoons Karo syrup
½ cup Bacardi rum and three secret drops of German rum flavoring because regular rum evaporates rather quickly. The rum flavoring I mention is more potent and delicious than the stuff in our local grocery stores. The Dr. Oetker Rum flavor will take your rum balls to a whole new level. It is available in most European delicatessens.
Chocolate sprinkles for decorating
Powdered sugar for decorating
Powdered sugar for decorating
Anyway, add ingredients to your bowl one at a time, stirring between each addition. Size-wise I roll them into one inch round balls.
Then roll half of the rum balls in powdered sugar and the other half of the balls in the
chocolate sprinkles. Set them on wax paper and try one. I said one. Then, refrigerate them before you place them into cute little gift boxes or onto serving trays.
Super easy and fun too!
Have you ever made these?
My mother made something very similar.
ReplyDeleteThey do sound good!
ReplyDeleteWow, I remember your other blog. It doesn't seem that long...
Yum! Must try...but I think the cook deserves at least
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I live in 29 Palms. I'm lucky to find any kind of flavoring, let alone a flavoring sold in fancy stores or overseas. Sounds good though.
ReplyDeleteLooks yummy. It's something I'd stand over and inhale.
ReplyDeleteI bet those are rich as heck. Don't laugh, but before I knew they were 1 inch balls, those chocolate sprinkles looked like Tootsie rolls. :O
ReplyDeleteHello Eve, I’ve never made these, and I missed your recipe before Christmas but there’s nothing to say they are only for Christmas – right? I might just be making them for my birthday, Easter, next Tuesday and so on and so forth. :-)
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