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5-minute Chocolate Balls

Quick and delicious Rum Balls recipe (with or without rum!). These tasty treats whip up in no time,

and are completely addictive. Whether you need a chocolate fix or a quick gift, these are sure to

please.

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Ingredients

A food processor will help you cut through this recipe in a cool five minutes or less!

1 1/4 cups (120 grams) vanilla wafer cookies, shortbread, or graham crackers (about 35 Nillabrand wafers)

1/2 cup (55 grams) powdered (confectioners) sugar

2 tablespoons (12 grams) cocoa powder (Dutch processed or regular unsweetened cocoapowder)

2 tablespoons light corn syrup

1/4 cup (60 ml) COLD* liquid: juice; rum; water + rum extract (or your favorite); or whateverelse you can imagine -- I did one batch with OJ and one with rum

1 1/2 cups (140 grams) pecans (hazelnuts, walnuts, or almonds can be used - and toastingthem beforehand makes them awesome! but will probably result in longer than 5 minutes)

1/2 cup (55 grams) topping - crushed nuts, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, flaked coconut,go crazy

Makes about 2 dozen decent-sized chocolate balls.

*the liquid being cold will help the balling process and reduce or even eliminate the need to

refrigerate before shaping

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Mix it up!

Process the cookies and pecans(opt) in the food processor until finely ground.

Add powdered sugar and cocoa powder and process until combined.

Add corn syrup and liquid and mix well. Yes, you can do this in the processor too! Blend until itcreates one massive lump on the side of the bowl.

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Form balls

Grease your hands (trust me on this one) and shape mixture into 1 inch (2.54 cm) balls.

Roll the finished balls in the toppings of your choice. (I used powdered sugar and crushednuts)

If the balls are too sticky for you to work with, you can stick 'em in the freezer for a couple minutes

or in the fridge for a few hours. I'm guessing that would work. . . I've never had the patience to find

out!

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Try to Share!

If you don't eat them all yourself in one sitting, try to remember to bring them in to share with your

colleagues/peers the next day. These are perfect little gifts to give too. A sandwich baggie with acolorful ribbon even makes it look like you put a lot of thought into it!

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gramgeatersays:

Why is there not a printer friendly option for these recipes?

etarabas says:

why can't I print out this recipe ? 5 min chocolate balls Evie here

Renee! says:

Those look so great! Do you think you could replace the corn syrup with honey and maybe reduce the

sugar to balance it out?

pancsi says:

Perfect recipe! I made them for Easter. Thanks a lot.

http://pancsolo.blogspot.com/2012/04/csokigolyo-husvetra.html

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PonderinPothead says:

In my house these are called Rum balls.

Glockenatorsays:

what in the world are Nilla Wafers?

radarovich says:

small round Va"Nilla" flavoured cookies!

lagniappe4u says:

It's a very popular brand name for Vanilla Wafers. At most stores I've been to, they put some

by the bananas because folks use them to make banana pudding. But, then again, I DO live

in Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA. Other places, I think they just put them in with the

cookies.

lagniappe4u says:

Thanks for this great recipe. I made 3 batches - 2 with Bacardi Orange Rum and one with a walnut

liqueur. My only suggestion: as I did the first two batches, I lightly greased my hands with veg oil. I

found I had to repeat a lot during the rolling process and that the balls I did (I rolled them in powdered

sugar) the oil, even the tiny amount that ended up on the balls, made the powdered sugar disappear

after a few hours. I rerolled them and it was fine.

But for the 3rd batch, I used powdered sugar on my hands as I was rolling them in powdered sugar,

and not only did it go a lot faster, but worked really well. So I suggest trying that if you are gonna roll

them in powdered sugar anyway.

This is a wonderful recipe - so good & easy enough that kids could help.

eviolet says:

it's look yummy!! i guess i can make it easily?~ well i really hope i can make it well and i'm thinkin' to

give this to my friend for her coming birthday!!! hope she like it!! ^^ this is the easiest way and i don't

need to buy a thing!!! :)

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celina y says:

thx it's delicious

TheGreatS says:

This is Delicious! I'm making these for my sisters open house and THEY TASTE AWESOME! I rolled

them in crushed gram crackers, and powdered sugar I made a double batch (only the first batch is

shown) and drizzled chocolate on some after I rolled them in powdered sugar. YUM!

webcandyshop says:

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Newton says:

I made these as an alternative Christmas dessert/snack and they turned out brilliantly. I used

chocolate & mint vermicelli for the toppings.

carpe_noctem says:

this reminds of a recipe i learned called chocolate sausage. basically the same thing, except the

mass isrolled into a cylinder, chilled until its more solid, and cut into slices.

Peoplesperson says:

Would milk work as a liquid? I'm gonna go try it now :)

baglieg says:

I think it would. Alternately, you could replace the corn syrup with sweetened condensed

milk.

Lettucehead says:

Yummmm... I will make some of these.

pie poppersays:

could you use water instead of rum? or chocolate milk?

knektek says:

do you have to use almonds and chopped peacans? or can you just use almonds? only because i

have TONNES of them!

kidgeek says:

Hi. Are we measuring the 1 1/2 cups pecans after they've been chopped? I purchased whole pecans

then I noticed in your pic that you had purchased chopped pecans. I really can't wait to make these

and am using Kahlua instead of rum (Thanks to nathan42100 's comment!) Thanks for posting

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this!!

dwm924 says:

It tastes great, but when you get to the 'roll in a ball' part it's not so fun.

scoochmaroo (author) says:

Yeah, we should come up with a better way to do it. I had to keep washing my hands in cold

water, which did help. Maybe coating your hands in cocoa powder first or something?

Huntman00 says:

flour will make it not stick so bad i'm guessing

caeric says:

I'm just reading this now - Have done this as a pre-step before dipping them in various chocolates.

That way I have like store bought truffles in whatever shape I want them to be, and in complete control

of my innards. Good instructable, making me hungry ;-)

5aliveartist says:

awww yeah!!! we made these and ate them. wow, good and easy like you said and we are making

them for holiday gifts. thank you!

ewitwins says:

I know this might come off as a silly question but does the alchohol ( what little there is) from the rum

extract go away at all? I want to know if I can give this safely to those under 21 :)

scoochmaroo (author) says:

This is a very good question. Rum extract is perfectly safe. However, if you were to use

straight rum, you would definitely know it!

Solderguy says:

Your balls are so delicious and moist. Nice instructable!

INSTRUCTUBAL says:

BAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHA sorry, im quite

perverted when it comes to things like that :D!

ANTQNUT says:

Bahahahahahahahahahahahaha x2

me too Instructubal me too :3

Rofl

SoapyHollow says:

I made these...a little differently...today to go with the "Bee Cake" I'm making for my best friend's

birthday this weekend. I used 'nilla wafers, honey, hazelnut liqueur, and hazelnuts with cardamom,

cinnamon, cloves, allspice and ginger. I ended up having to add another 20 or so nilla wafers to get

the texture to be not too wet. I used a #100 scooper (truffle cream sized scooper) to scoop out balls,

then shaped them into mini-beehive shape, and rolled them in a gold/yellow sugar/powdered sugar

mix. The powdered sugar sort of disappeared, leaving the gold granulated sugar to sparkle...it looks

really cool. I'll try to get a picture of them this weekend, when I put the whole cake together. I'll be

using these as plate decoration. :)

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Is the addiction to them caused by the rum, or the caffeine do you think? Or both? Or maybe they are

just that good.

Syko Pyro says:

There is no actual addiction, like there would be with cigarettes or alcohol. But trust me they

are DELICIOUS

Speedmite says:

I will take your word.

Opaltrinket says:

oops damn! found them. ;)

Opaltrinket says:

I missed a step, the ingredient list. I wanna make sure the trinket house has all the stuff.

lemonie says:

They look great, I should do this and find out how good they taste.

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scoochmaroo (author) says:

Yeah you should. It only takes five minutes - what do you have to lose?

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Five minutes.

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