Vanilla Rum Balls

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar (150g)
• 3 cups vanilla wafers, crushed (crush vanilla biscuits and use if you dont get vanilla wafers, 300g)
• 4 tablespoons dark corn syrup or 4 tablespoons golden syrup
• 1/2 cup dark rum (more or less, depending on personal tastes)
• extra cocoa or ground chocolate, to roll the rum balls in

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl, sift together the cocoa and confectioners' sugar.
• 2 in a food processor or blender crush/crumble the vanilla wafers.
• 3 add the crushed vanilla wafers to the sugar mixture and combine.
• 4 add the remaining ingredients.
• 5 form the mixture into 1 inch (2. 5 cm) balls with your hands.
• 6 the balls should hold together easily and retain their shape.
• 7 if the mixture is too dry to hold together or too wet to form balls, you can easily adjust the consistency by adding rum/sugar accordingly.
• 8 sprinkle the extra cocoa or ground chocolate on a flat surface and roll the balls in to coat.
• 9 have 'em on your cookie tray this year and watch 'em vanish before you know it!