Home made rum balls - let the holidays begin!
Marcie Verkest's Rum Balls
- originally Bourbon Balls
1 - 6 oz pack or 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels
1/2 cup sugar
3 tb spoons or 1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup bourbon or rum
2.5 cups (5 doz) vanilla wafers (crushed fine) - or 1 box 12 oz.
1 cup walnuts chopped fine
DIRECTIONS:
melt chocolate morsels over hot water.
remove from heat, stir in sugar and syrup.
blend in bourbon/rum
combine crushed wafers and walnuts
add chocolate mixture to wafers
mix well
shape batter into balls
roll them in granulated sugar
let balls sit in covered container several day to ripen
makes about 3 doz (depending on size of balls)