toasted coconut rum balls with chocolate inside!

Monticello, KY
Updated on Dec 11, 2020

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 like it!

prep time 1 Hr 30 Min
cook time
method No-Cook or Other
yield 45 to 50 Rum Balls (size of a golf ball)

Ingredients

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

How To Make toasted coconut rum balls with chocolate inside!

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

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