RUM BALLS   ~ RUM KUGELN

INGREDIENTS:
Single Batch Double Batch
12 1/2 dkg butter unsalted
25 dkg icing sugar
2 pkgs Dr. Oetker vanilla sugar
2 squares semi-sweet chocolate
2 tsp cocao
15 dkg oatmeal
12 1/2 dkg ground walnuts
rum to taste - Stroh Rum 80 proof

Red Marashino Cherries - large tub

200 g real chocolate streusel

25 dkg butter unsalted
50 dkg icing sugar
4 pkgs Dr. Oetker vanilla sugar
4 squares semi-sweet chocolate
4 tsp cocao
30 dkg oatmeal
25 dkg ground walnuts
rum to taste - Stroh Rum 80 proof

Red Marashino Cherries - 2 large tubs

400 g real chocolate streusel

COATING:
real chocolate streusel / hail

OPTIONS:
Use sweetened fine shredded coconut as coating.
Use 1/2 semi-sweet and 1/2 dark bitter chocolate
 

DIRECTIONS:
Mix dry ingredients. Add softened butter and crumble in a bowl.
Melt chocolate. Add to mixture & knead. Add rum to taste - till moist.
Drain marashino cherries.

Take a small amount of dough in palm of hand & flatten.
Place drained cherry in the middle of batter, close up into a ball.
Roll between hands till sealed & smooth.
Roll immediately in streusel and then place into wax paper lined cookie tin.
 

NOTES:

  • Try soaking marashino cherries in rum overnight and then using the drained rum juice to batter
  • Each chocolate squares weighs 28 g.
  • DeRyter chocolate hail - imported Dutch Chocolate
    • Dutch Treats 15 Holland Street E. Bradford 905-775-6763
    • Vince's Fine Foods  130 Davis Drive  Newmarket  905-895-5571

SOURCE: Mutti Berndl
 

 

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