Christmas Rum Balls(or Bourbon Balls)

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups vanilla wafers, crushed (a 250g box of christies vanilla wafers equals 2 1/2 cups)
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 1/4 cups icing sugar
• 1/2 cup spiced rum (the rum is called spiced rum) or 1/2 cup bourbon
• 2 tablespoons corn syrup (one brand is karo)
• 1 cup pecans or 1 cup walnuts, broken

Recipe

• 1 sift the cocoa with 1 cup sugar.
• 2 stir in the spiced rum mixed with the syrup.
• 3 add crushed vanilla wafers and nuts.
• 4 mix thoroughly.
• 5 shape mixture into walnut sizes balls and dredge with remaining sugar or leave them plain.
• 6 store in a tin.