Chocolate Cherry Kid Friendly Rum Balls
- 1 (250 g) package light cream cheese, block style, at room temperature
- 175 g semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 175 g butterscotch chips
- 15 ml rum extract or 50 ml rum
- 15 -20 ml water (omit if using real rum)
- 625 ml graham wafer crumbs
- 1 cup maraschino cherry, finely chopped & well drained
- chocolate sprinkles (also called chocolate shot)
- Chop up maraschino cherries, set aside.
- Beat cream cheese with food processor or wooden spoon.
- Melt chocolate and butterscotch chips in microwave on medium power for 1 minute at a time until melted; stir lots after each minute to make sure you don't burn it.
- Beat chocolate mixture into cream cheese; Mix in rum, water, cherries and graham wafer crumbs.
- (the amount of water depends on the type of cream cheese you use, if using light add the minimum amount of water).
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- With your hands, roll out about one teaspoon of the mixture at a time into balls.
- Put chocolate sprinkles in a small bowl (such as a cream cheese container), roll rum balls in the sprinkles one at a time.
- Store in refrigerator.
- If you are making these for a gathering/occasion, roll the rum balls the day before or day of, They do keep for about 2 weeks in the fridge, but at that time the chocolate sprinkles do soften slightly.
- Yield: about 80 rum balls.
light cream cheese, semisweet chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, rum, water, graham wafer crumbs, maraschino cherry, chocolate sprinkles
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-cherry-kid-friendly-rum-balls-113396 (may not work)