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Home made rum balls – let the holidays begin!, originally uploaded by miamism.

After several requests for the recipe – here it is.  This is my husband’s grandmother’s recipe.

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)