“Rum Balls – Using your favorite ingredients”
Ingredients
- 2-1/2 cups crushed vanilla wafers (about 75 wafers)
- 1 cup ground pecans.
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar.
- 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons baking cocoa.
- 1/4 cup rum.
- 3 tablespoons honey.
- 2 tablespoons water.
- Additional confectioners’ sugar or crushed vanilla wafers.
Directions
- Mix together wafer crumbs, pecans, confectioners’ sugar and cocoa. Combine rum, honey and water; stir into crumb mixture. Shape into 1-in. balls. Roll in additional confectioners’ sugar or wafer crumbs. Store in an airtight container.
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- Another Version
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup vanilla wafer, crushed
- 1 cup pecans or 1 cup walnuts, crushed
- 1⁄4 cup honey
- 1⁄2 cup Bacardi dark rum
- powdered sugar or confectioners’ sugar or icing sugar, for coating
DIRECTIONS
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Another choice of ingredient amounts.
1 box vanilla wafers, crushed; 3 Tbsp. cocoa; 1 1/2 cups finely chopped walnuts, 4 1/2 Tbsp. corn syrup, 1/3 cup rum, and 1 cup confectioners sugar (plus more for rolling balls). (It states that finely chopped coconut may also be added.) Current recipe says it makes 50-60 balls.
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Another list of ingredients – to show that the “Chef” can add to the mix a little more or less – just so you can make a nice ball, that will hold together, and taste wonderful, when the guest try them!
Ingredient Amounts may be to your taste.
¼ | cup | dark rum Bacardi black or equiv. |
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1 ½ | cups | vanilla wafer crumbs |
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¼ | cup | honey |
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2 | cups | walnuts ground |
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1 | x | powdered sugar |
“Variety is the spice of LIFE!”
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