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Old Keg of Rum Balls

Having your cake and drinking it too.
Prep Time:25 minutes
Course: Dessert

Ingredients

Easy Cake Rum Balls

  • 3-4 average slices of chocolate mud cake (or a fudge type cake like brownie)
  • 2 tbsp rum
  • 1 cup dessicated coconut

Basic Biscuit Rum Balls

  • 250 g plain sweet biscuits/cookies
  • ¼ cup rum
  • 1 cup dessicated coconut
  • 395 g sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 tsp ground cinammon (optional)
  • cup pistachio kernels, processed into course crumbs (optional

Instructions

Easy Cake Rum Balls

  • Crumble cake in bowl and stir in the rum.
  • Using hands shape the mixture into tablespoons of balls and roll in coconut.
  • Refrigerate on baking paper for at least an hour.

Basic Biscuit Rum Balls

  • Process biscuit/cookies, either in a blender or put in a zip-lock bag and bash with a rolling pin. Finely chopped but doesn't have to be powder.
  • In a bowl, combine biscuits, coconut, milk and rum. Add cinnamon if using.
  • Shape the mixture into tablespoons of balls, place on baking paper and refrigerate until set.
  • If using pistachio, after shaping mixture into balls, roll balls in pistachio crumb, then refrigerate.