Mom's Rum Balls

Category: Cookies Region: America American measurements

Ingredients

• 240 mL crushed vanilla wafers
• One of:
• 240 mL ground pecans
• 240 mL ground walnuts
• 240 mL confectioners sugar
• 2 Tb cocoa
• 1.5 to 2.5 Tb corn syrup
• One of:
• 60 mL rum
• 60 mL bourbon
• extra confectioners sugar

Directions

Grind the nuts in a food processor until very finely chopped. This will take a minute or minute and a half.

Mix crushed (fine, but not to a powder!) cookies, nuts, sugar and cocoa. Add combined syrup and rum. Let sit for a few days in the refrigerator; the dough improves with age.

Shape into 3/4-inch diameter balls and roll in confectioners sugar.