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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Components

• Pecans – You’ll use a meals processor to pulse them into effective crumbs.
• Nilla Wafer Cookies – Or any sort of crispy cookie you favor.
• Powdered Sugar – For the cookie recipe (you can too use this to roll the cookies in as an alternative 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 could have readily available.
• Honey – Select native honey or agave when you favor a vegan choice.

Learn 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 combined. If it’s worthwhile to, 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 may additionally use powdered sugar) as a garnish.

Retailer at room temperature till able to serve.

Ideas for Making

• You may retailer these balls in a container at room temperature for as much as one week. When you favor to make them forward (or save a few of your batch), you can too freeze them for as much as three months.
• Some individuals wish to maintain their balls in particular person mini cupcake liners (so that they seem like a field of candies) for serving. This a a fantastic choice if making them for a celebration.
• What’s an alternative to Nilla wafers? When you don’t have Nilla wafer cookies readily available, you should utilize the same crispy store-bought cookie. You might also attempt it with a smooth cookie, however the closest substitution could be one other crispy cookie.

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