Traditional Christmas Rum Balls Recipe
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Author: Rimli
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: International
Serves: 10-12 large balls
Ingredients
- Cake: 360g, I used leftover of my Christmas Fruit cake
- Chocolate: 85g, chopped
- Dark Rum: 70ml or rum essence: 1 tsp
- Glaze cherry: 12-15, as per number of balls
- Cocoa powder for dusting
- Chocolate sprinkles
Instructions
- Crumble cake pieces in food processor or by hands like breadcrumbs; make sure to break all lumps. Transfer the crumbs in a large mixing bowl.
- Melt chocolate in microwave at full power (mine is 900W) for 45 secs and whisk with spatula until entire chocolate is melted nicely. Or you can use double boiler method for the same.
- Pour melted chocolate on cake crumbs and mix with a spatula to coat all dry crumbs with chocolate.
- Combine the rum with chocolate-cake mixture until everything comes together to form a large dough ball.
- Take small portions of the mixture dough and roll between palms to form medium sized balls.
- Now insert one glace cherry in the middle of each ball and seal the edge.
- Line a tray with non-stick paper and place rum balls on it separately until all the mixture is rolled into balls.
- Dust the rum balls with cocoa powder or drizzle chocolate on top. Decorate rum balls further with sugar sprinklers.
Notes
1. Use any leftover cake. Christmas fruit cakes are already packed with flavours of fruits-nuts and spices so they are the best for this Christmas special rum balls in my opinion. Otherwise chocolate cakes, any fruit & nut cakes or even simple vanilla cakes work fine for the same.
2. In case you are using other I’ll insist you to add 1tsp of Christmas cake Spice Mix for the authentic taste.
3. If you are looking for non-alcoholic or kid friendly rum balls, use rum essence or vanilla essence.
4. The amount of rum mentioned here will give quite strong punch in the rum balls. If you are not fan of alcohol use 50ml rum only or mix ½ tsp of vanilla essence.
5. Any nuts (like almond or cashew) or dried fruits can be used as stuffing instead of cherry. In fact rum balls will taste fine without any stuffing at all.
2. In case you are using other I’ll insist you to add 1tsp of Christmas cake Spice Mix for the authentic taste.
3. If you are looking for non-alcoholic or kid friendly rum balls, use rum essence or vanilla essence.
4. The amount of rum mentioned here will give quite strong punch in the rum balls. If you are not fan of alcohol use 50ml rum only or mix ½ tsp of vanilla essence.
5. Any nuts (like almond or cashew) or dried fruits can be used as stuffing instead of cherry. In fact rum balls will taste fine without any stuffing at all.
Recipe by Scratching Canvas at http://www.scratchingcanvas.com/christmas-rum-balls-recipe/