TOASTED COCONUT RUM BALLS WITH CHOCOLATE INSIDE!

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I have been sating around trying to figure out a new Holiday recipe. Being looking at cookies, cakes Holiday snacks, and eating KISSES. About the time I was to eat another KISSES, and looking at rum balls, I got to thinking --- UMMM, take one kisses and roll it up inside of a RUM BALL. SOOO, that's what I did. TRY it, you might...

Provided by Bobby (*_*)

Categories     Other Snacks

Time 1h30m

Number Of Ingredients 6

2 11oz boxes vanilla wafers (about 125 wafers)
1/2 to 3/4 c toasted coconut rum (siesta key rum)
1/2 c clover honey
2 c walnuts, chopped fine (i use food processor)
1 c flake coconut (pulse about 15 times)
confectioner's sugar, optional

Steps:

  • 1. `
  • 2. Get all ingredients together!
  • 3. Open the boxes of vanilla wafers, and pour them into a food processor...
  • 4. With the speed knot on 2, start the food processor and let it run about 30 seconds, or, until fine crumbs.
  • 5. Pour the wafers crumbs into a bowl (make sure the bowl is big enough to mix everything together!
  • 6. Now take the nuts, put in food processor and hit the pulse bottom 15 times...
  • 7. and chopped the nuts fine!
  • 8. Pour the nuts in the bowl that you have the wafers in.
  • 9. Take coconut and place in the food processor and hit the pulse bottom 15 times...
  • 10. When the coconut looks finely chopped, pour coconut in the wafer bowl along with the nuts.
  • 11. Now, take the wafer mixture and pour the rum in, I used about 3/4 of a cup of rum, depends how strong of a rum taste you like...
  • 12. Now pour in the honey, and with a big slotted spoon, mix all together...
  • 13. until is clinks in a ball like this...
  • 14. Take a cookie scoop and fill the scoop to the top.
  • 15. Take a KISSES and place in the palm of your hand, or,
  • 16. push the KISSES into the center of scoop...
  • 17. Take the dough, and come around the KISSES
  • 18. And roll the dough in the palm of your hands to make a ball, about the size of a golf ball...
  • 19. Take the rolled up rum ball and place in a medium size cookie sheet lined with wax paper...
  • 20. Do all dough balls and place in cookie sheet until all rum balls are through.
  • 21. This is optional, I did use confectioner's sugar. Take the confectioner's sugar, pour into a bowl
  • 22. Roll the ball around until each ball is covered with confectioner's sugar.
  • 23. Place in a medium size casserole pan until all balls are covered with sugar.
  • 24. Take the rum balls and refrigerate overnight or until you are ready to use!
  • 25. `

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