Conventional Rum Balls – A Lovely Mess

In the event 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.

Extra Dessert Concepts: Crimson Velvet Cake, Cinnamon Rolls, Cream Pie

Elements

• Pecans – You’ll use a meals processor to pulse them into advantageous crumbs.
• Nilla Wafer Cookies – Or any sort of crispy cookie you favor.
• Powdered Sugar – For the cookie recipe (you may as well 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 got readily available.
• Honey – Select native honey or agave if you happen to choose a vegan possibility.

Easy methods to Make

Start by putting 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 good to, use your clear palms 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’ll be able to retailer these balls in a container at room temperature for as much as one week. In the event you choose to make them forward (or save a few of your batch), you may as well freeze them for as much as three months.
• Some folks wish to hold their balls in particular person mini cupcake liners (in order 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? In the event you don’t have Nilla wafer cookies readily available, you need to use an identical crispy store-bought cookie. You may additionally strive it with a delicate cookie, however the closest substitution could be one other crispy cookie.

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