Chocolate Rum Balls Recipe
Ingredients
| Butter/Margarine | 1/2 Cup (16 tbs), softened | |
| Confectioner’s sugar | 1/2 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| Semisweet chocolate chips 3/4 cup | ||
| Eggs | 2 | |
| Rum flavoring 1 tsp. | ||
| Water | 2 Tablespoon | |
| Chocolate wafer cookies, crushed into crumbs 1 3/4 cups | ||
| Colored fancies (tiny colored bead decoration) | ||
| Chocolate sprinkles | ||
Directions
Combine butter, icing sugar and chocolate chips in saucepan.
Heat and stir to melt.
Add eggs.
Stir until thickened.
Remove from heat.
Stir in rum flavoring, water and crumbs.
Scrape into foil lined bowl and chill.
It will seem very granular at this point.
Divide dough into 3 parts.
It will be almost hard as a rock.
Squeeze, knead and work dough until it can be shaped.
Roll into a log about 1 1/2 inches (4 cm) in diameter.
Roll in colored or chocolate sprinkles.
Store in plastic bag in refrigerator.
Slice to use.
Heat and stir to melt.
Add eggs.
Stir until thickened.
Remove from heat.
Stir in rum flavoring, water and crumbs.
Scrape into foil lined bowl and chill.
It will seem very granular at this point.
Divide dough into 3 parts.
It will be almost hard as a rock.
Squeeze, knead and work dough until it can be shaped.
Roll into a log about 1 1/2 inches (4 cm) in diameter.
Roll in colored or chocolate sprinkles.
Store in plastic bag in refrigerator.
Slice to use.
Chef
