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This day demands something special to be made, and one can’t thing about something else except ‘Rum Balls’, when a Dark Chocolate Cake breaks accidentally. Sometimes accidents are meant for good, you know. 😉 This recipe is an ode to the variety of Rum Ballls what I’ve grown up eating from different popular bakeries in Kolkata. Flurys, Monginis, Kathleen etc. I tried to keep the recipe simple, it’s very easy to make. These dark chocolate coated rum balls are simply sinful, gorgeous and completely melt in mouth. One can’t stop at one, guaranteed! 🙂

Rum Ball

Ingredients

Yields: 9-10 regular sized rum ball

• Finely ground cake crumbs from a chocolate cake
• Dark Rum- ½ cup
• Raisins- 2 tbsp (I used a mix of currants and raisins)
• Dark chocolate (I used Bournville)- 100g (broken into pieces)

Method

Soak the raisins into rum for a day or two, keep refrigerated.

In a bowl add cake crumbs, soaked raisins (Add raisins only, not the rum. Don’t discard either, keep the rum for later use.). Now add 2 tbsp rum into this. Mix well using your fingers and start to make smooth balls out of this mixture.

Melt the dark chocolate using a double boiler. Line a tray with butter paper. Dip the balls into the melted chocolate, I did this with the help of a spoon. Gently coat the balls with chocolate and place them quickly on paper lined tray. You can sprinkle some grated chocolate or chocolate sprinkles on top of the balls, as I did. Keep in the fridge overnight or minimum for 5-6 hours. Serve cold.

 Note:

The more you keep them in the fridge, the more mature test you will get. I kept these balls for a day in my refrigerator before serving.