Rum Balls - A No Bake recipe for Easy Entertaining (2024)

FAQs

Can you get tipsy off rum balls? ›

Can rum balls make you drunk? This is a no bake recipe, which means any alcohol we use in the process won't be cooked away or made less effective. However, we're not using that much of it, so getting drunk isn't something to worry about! After all, there's only ¼ cup of rum divided among 24 individual bites.

Store rum balls in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. Alternatively, freeze them in an airtight container for up to 2 months and allow to come to room temperature before eating.

While vanilla wafers are my favorite for their subtle sweetness and vanilla notes, graham crackers, butter cookies, digestive biscuits, or shortbread cookies are all excellent substitutes. For a gluten-free version, opt for gluten-free cookies.

If you notice the mixture is too dry: The cookie crumbs can make these a little dry, but it's an easy fix! Go on and give it another splash of rum. Otherwise, if you find it's too runny, add a bit more powdered sugar until you reach the right consistency.

small, soft, delicious bite-size chocolate rum balls

you can easily substitute the rum with water or milk and make them appropriate for kids, pregnant ladies, or those who don't drink alcohol in general.

Anytime you cook with alcohol, it should cook out. And you're left with the flavor, not the alcoholic content. Wild, Just wanted you to know that the rum in the cakes are safe to eat for the younger ones. The rum is cooked out during the baking process.

If kept out of direct sunlight and in a cool setting, unopened rum can be stored almost indefinitely. It is considered a stable liquor with a high ABV to preserve its integrity while in storage. Once opened, a bottle of rum should be used within 6 months to 2 years, depending on the additional flavors in the liquor.

If you are not sure if there is alcohol in what's being served to you, ask. Rum ball may be delicious, but they are not a good idea during pregnancy.

Rum balls are a pretty popular holiday treat because they're a crowd-pleaser, so easy to make, and have a pretty great shelf-life for something homemade (up to 2 weeks!). They're made using vanilla cookie crumbs, toasted chopped walnuts, cocoa, and spiced rum.

Rum balls are a popular Christmas treat in England, Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United States, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Greece and the Czech Republic. In Denmark they are enjoyed year round and known as either romkugle, trøffel or sputnik, depending on the specific region.

Are vanilla wafers being discontinued? ›

But those crispy cookies are disappearing from store shelves for good. This month, Murray Foods, which has owned the Jackson brand since 2004, discontinued the last of the Jackson line of cookies. The bags on shelves right now are the last of the vanilla wafers.

You want the mixture to be wet enough that it holds together easily when rolled into a ball, but not so wet that it is soggy and doesn't hold it's shape. If you think it's a little on the dry side, add a splash more rum and give it another good mix.

If the mixture seems too dry, add an additional small amount of melted butter or more rum. Form small balls about the size of a walnut.

An average rum cake has around 1/2 cup rum to bake the cake and eating two to three pieces of dry rum cake is too less to get you drunk. However, if you soak the cake in rum after baking and serve it after refrigeration, then eating too much cake can get you a little intoxicated.

What you're ultimately looking for is a rich, chocolate-forward flavor laced with rum but not to a biting degree. (Although the alcoholic tang will mellow out as the rum balls sit.)

Can I get drunk from eating your bourbon balls? Highly unlikely. The balls are bite-sized, maybe two bite-sized, so you would have to eat a lot of them. You are more likely to experience a sugar high, than a buzz, so we feel it is a safe indulgence.

“Ultimately inebriation depends on the dose, and there's not enough alcohol in a dessert that would lead to an effect,” Das says. That certainly makes sense with something like my Bourbon Blondies, whose 1/4 cup of bourbon is initially baked off (partially), then distributed across a pan of 25 servings. That's .