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Rum Balls Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Fruit Cake Balls or Rum Balls which taste amazing with full of chocolate and rum flavour.

Rum Balls Recipe

Cake balls with rum Step by step pictures. Rum Balls are nothing but a mixture of fruit cake or biscuit crumbs which has added rum and nuts mixture in them. This has honey and chocolate mixture added to it which adds as a glue. Then the whole balls in coated in chocolate.

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About Rum Balls

Rum balls are a truffle-like confectionery cake of cookie butter flavoured with chocolate and rum. They are roughly the size of a golf ball and often coated in chocolate sprinkles, desiccated coconut, or cocoa. As their name implies, these cookies contain rum. Because they are not baked, the alcohol flavour and kick are not lost during preparation. This cookie is especially popular during the holiday season.

Rum balls can be made different ways. You can make it entirely with cookie crumbs or with fruit cake. I added a combination of cookie and cake which resulted in a delicious balls.

How to Make Rum Balls

Take all ingredients in a bowl for except chocolate and mix well.
Take small portion and roll it into balls.
Place it in fridge or freezer for 30 mins to 1 hour.
Melt dark chocolate in microwave for few seconds or melt in double boiler till smooth.
Take the balls from fridge and coat it in chocolate.
Remove and set aside till it hardens.
Serve.