Rum yum balls

Name: Rum yum balls
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Makes 30
Ingredients: 300 g (10½ oz) Chocolate brownie scraps, frozen; 100 g (3½ oz) Santa’s chocolate chip cookies, crumbled, or use any cookie you like; 100 g (3½ oz) milk chocolate, finely chopped; 50 g (1¾ oz) cocoa nibs; 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder; 3 tablespoons dark rum; 300 g (10½ oz) dark chocolate, tempered; gold lustre powder for dusting

Preparation info

Makes
30

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
20 min

Appears in

Chefs Host Christmas Too

By Darren Purchese

Published 2018

About

Super simple and delicious, these rums balls are made with leftover sponge - I make them with the brownie scraps from the Christmas trifle. They’re called rum balls, but you can use any alcoholic spirit to give these some festive cheer.

Ingredients

300 g (10½ oz) Chocolate brownie scraps, frozen
100 g (

Winter
December
Leftovers
Vegetarian

Method

Line two trays with baking paper and set aside. Put the frozen chocolate brownie scraps into a blender and quickly pulse to form crumbs. If you do this for too long, the sponge will defrost and go mushy.
Pour the cold blitzed crumbs into a bowl with the cookie crumbs, milk chocolate, cocoa nibs, cocoa powder and rum. Mix the contents of the bowl with your finge