TOASTED COCONUT RUM BALLS WITH CHOCOLATE INSIDE!

TOASTED COCONUT RUM BALLS with CHOCOLATE INSIDE! image

I have been sating around trying to figure out a new Holiday recipe. Being looking at cookies, cakes Holiday snacks, and eating KISSES. About the time I was to eat another KISSES, and looking at rum balls, I got to thinking --- UMMM, take one kisses and roll it up inside of a RUM BALL. SOOO, that's what I did. TRY it, you might...

Provided by Bobby (*_*)

Time 1h30m

Number Of Ingredients 6

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Ingredients

2 11oz boxes vanilla wafers (about 125 wafers)
1/2 to 3/4 c toasted coconut rum (siesta key rum)
1/2 c clover honey
2 c walnuts, chopped fine (i use food processor)
1 c flake coconut (pulse about 15 times)
confectioner's sugar, optional

Steps:

1. `
2. Get all ingredients together!
3. Open the boxes of vanilla wafers, and pour them into a food processor...
4. With the speed knot on 2, start the food processor and let it run about 30 seconds, or, until fine crumbs.
5. Pour the wafers crumbs into a bowl (make sure the bowl is big enough to mix everything together!
6. Now take the nuts, put in food processor and hit the pulse bottom 15 times...
7. and chopped the nuts fine!
8. Pour the nuts in the bowl that you have the wafers in.
9. Take coconut and place in the food processor and hit the pulse bottom 15 times...
10. When the coconut looks finely chopped, pour coconut in the wafer bowl along with the nuts.
11. Now, take the wafer mixture and pour the rum in, I used about 3/4 of a cup of rum, depends how strong of a rum taste you like...
12. Now pour in the honey, and with a big slotted spoon, mix all together...
13. until is clinks in a ball like this...
14. Take a cookie scoop and fill the scoop to the top.
15. Take a KISSES and place in the palm of your hand, or,
16. push the KISSES into the center of scoop...
17. Take the dough, and come around the KISSES
18. And roll the dough in the palm of your hands to make a ball, about the size of a golf ball...
19. Take the rolled up rum ball and place in a medium size cookie sheet lined with wax paper...
20. Do all dough balls and place in cookie sheet until all rum balls are through.
21. This is optional, I did use confectioner's sugar. Take the confectioner's sugar, pour into a bowl
22. Roll the ball around until each ball is covered with confectioner's sugar.
23. Place in a medium size casserole pan until all balls are covered with sugar.
24. Take the rum balls and refrigerate overnight or until you are ready to use!
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