Joyous Rum Balls

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 (12 ounce) bag melted semi-sweet chocolate chips, by trader joe's
• 1 (12 ounce) box vanilla wafer cookies, ground fine
• 1 1/4 cups of myers coconut rum
• 3/4 cup turbinado sugar or 3/4 cup other not bleached sugar
• 3/4 cup caro corn syrup, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup coconut flakes
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup trader joes sesame honey-roasted almond

Recipe

• 1 in a large non metal mixing bowl with a wooden spoon:
• 2 mix the smashed nilla wafers with the turbinado sugar and the rum.
• 3 incorporate the caro light corn syrup.
• 4 incorporate the melted semisweet chocolate chips.
• 5 let the mixture cool to a workable consistency
• 6 line a jelly roll tray with parchment, put your surgical gloves on to start rolling the rum balls about 1 tsp in size - or slightly smaller than a doughnut hole.
• 7 as you roll the rum balls up (slightly smaller than a doughnut hole)~~
• 8 roll them in a tray of coconut flakes and chopped almonds (i love the trader joe’s sesame honey almonds), or you can embed a whole almond on the rum ball and roll in powdered sugar and coconut flakes. either way is quite tasty.
• 9 place rum balls on the parchment and let set up for a little while - you can refrigerate them.