Conventional Rum Balls – A Lovely Mess

When you’ve by no means made conventional rum balls, you’re going to like this recipe! This tasty recipe is made with darkish rum, pecans, Nilla wafer cookies, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, salt and honey. They’re a scrumptious texture with only a trace of rum taste.

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Elements

• Pecans – You’ll use a meals processor to pulse them into tremendous crumbs.
• Nilla Wafer Cookies – Or any sort of crispy cookie you favor.
• Powdered Sugar – For the cookie recipe (you too can use this to roll the cookies in as an alternative choice to cocoa powder).
• Cocoa Powder – For the recipe in addition to rolling the finished balls in.
• Kosher Salt – This ingredient brings out the opposite flavors.
• Spiced Darkish Rum – Or any sort of rum you’ve readily available.
• Honey – Select native honey or agave if you happen to want a vegan possibility.

Tips on how to Make

Start by inserting the vanilla wafers in a meals processor and pulsing till they’re crumbs. Put aside and do the identical factor with the pecans.

Add all of the dry components (vanilla wafer crumbs, pecan crumbs, powdered sugar, cocoa, a pinch of salt) to a bowl and blend till effectively mixed.

Subsequent, add honey and rum. Mix with a spoon till effectively blended. If you must, use your clear fingers to combine the components evenly. Do that till all of your combination is barely moist.

Subsequent, press the combination into balls. I rolled mine by hand and ended up with 28 balls from these components.

Final, roll your completed balls in cocoa powder (you might also use powdered sugar) as a garnish.

Retailer at room temperature till able to serve.

Suggestions for Making

• You’ll be able to retailer these balls in a container at room temperature for as much as one week. When you want to make them forward (or save a few of your batch), you too can freeze them for as much as three months.
• Some folks prefer to preserve their balls in particular person mini cupcake liners (so that they appear like a field of sweets) for serving. This a an awesome possibility if making them for a celebration.
• What’s an alternative choice to Nilla wafers? When you don’t have Nilla wafer cookies readily available, you should use an analogous crispy store-bought cookie. You may additionally strive it with a comfortable cookie, however the closest substitution could be one other crispy cookie.

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