Rum balls recipe

Single batch

Crush a box of Nabisco Vanilla Wafers to powder. (I use a meat grinder now. You can wrap them in a muslin tea towels and pound them with a mallet or put them in a pillow case and let the three year old run trucks over them for a few hours. Or teach your elephant to tap-dance on it.)

1C chocolate chips
1/2C sugar
3Tbs light corn syrup
1/2C rum
2 1/2C finely crushed vanilla wafers

Melt chocolate chips (in the microwave is best - 1 minute on high Or, if you prefer, use a double boiler, but take it off the fire when you add the rum. Kitchen flambe is not nice)

Add sugar and corn syrup. Stir.

Add rum. Stir.

Thouroughly mix in the cookie crumbs. Let it cool for a while. When it is warm enough to handle, shape into balls about the size of a small walnut and allow to ripen in air-tight containers for at least several dys. "They'll never know what hit 'em!"

Variations: 1- Use Amoretto, bourbon, or Grand Mariner intead of rum. (or Curacao, or Drambuie, or Framboise, or Creme de Menthe, or . . .)

2 - Add 1 tablespoon of cinnamon to the rumballs.

3.- Add a jar of marmelade to rumballs.

4 - use honey instead of corn syrup.

White chocolate chips and coconut instead of cookie crumbs is pretty yummy, too!