Kid Friendly Rum Balls Recipes

KID-FRIENDLY RUM BALLS

Steps:

• Crush the biscuits until they resemble fine crumbs using either a food processor, blender, Thermomix or rolling pin (see notes) and then place into a large bowl.
• Stir through the cocoa powder, desiccated coconut and sweeteened condensed milk until well coated.
• Using your hands, roll heaped teaspoons of the mixture into balls and then roll through the extra coconut to coat.
• Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks or freeze for up to 2 months.
• Place the biscuits into the Thermomix bowl and crush on Speed 8, 10 seconds. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
• Add the cocoa powder, desiccated coconut and sweeteened condensed milk and mix on Reverse, Speed 4, 10 seconds. Scrape down the sides and repeat for a further 5-10 seconds or until combined.
• Using your hands, roll heaped teaspoons of the mixture into balls and then roll through the extra coconut to coat.
• Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks or freeze for up to 2 months.

RUM BALLS

Steps:

• Place vanilla cookies in a food processor and process into fine crumbs.
• Heat chocolate chips and corn syrup together in a saucepan over low heat. Cook, stirring often, until chocolate is melted and smooth, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in rum and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Fold in cookie crumbs; dough will be sticky.
• Place saucepan in the refrigerator until dough is firm and easy to roll, about 15 minutes. Cover 2 plates with waxed paper; dust with confectioners' sugar.
• Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place on the prepared plates. Dust rum balls with confectioners' sugar. Refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes.
• Remove rum balls from refrigerator and transfer to a resealable bag, including the extra confectioners' sugar. Seal the bag and shake to coat the rum balls completely with confectioners' sugar.

EASY RUM BALLS

Steps:

• Place chocolate in the top of a double boiler over simmering water. Stir frequently, scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching, until chocolate is melted, about 5 minutes. Remove and set aside to cool.
• Meanwhile, beat cream cheese in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually beat in powdered sugar and rum; mix until well combined. Beat in melted chocolate.
• Roll mixture into small balls and roll in chopped nuts. Refrigerate until firm.

CHOCOLATE CHERRY KID FRIENDLY RUM BALLS

Steps:

• Chop up maraschino cherries, set aside.
• Beat cream cheese with food processor or wooden spoon.
• Melt chocolate and butterscotch chips in microwave on medium power for 1 minute at a time until melted; stir lots after each minute to make sure you don't burn it.
• Beat chocolate mixture into cream cheese; Mix in rum, water, cherries and graham wafer crumbs.
• (the amount of water depends on the type of cream cheese you use, if using light add the minimum amount of water).
• Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• With your hands, roll out about one teaspoon of the mixture at a time into balls.
• Put chocolate sprinkles in a small bowl (such as a cream cheese container), roll rum balls in the sprinkles one at a time.
• Store in refrigerator.
• If you are making these for a gathering/occasion, roll the rum balls the day before or day of, They do keep for about 2 weeks in the fridge, but at that time the chocolate sprinkles do soften slightly.
• Yield: about 80 rum balls.