Easy, Festive (and Boozy!) Rum Balls Recipe | Alexandra’s Kitchen (2024)

FAQs

How many rum balls do you have to eat to get drunk? ›

That depends on the amount of rum added to the chocolate rum balls and how many you eat. You absolutely can't get drunk off eating these from the recipe, especially if you only eat a few. Do rum balls need to be refrigerated?

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.

Rum balls are bite-size homemade treats made with vanilla cookie crumbs, pecans, cocoa, confectioners' sugar, and spiced rum. These do taste like spiced rum, so keep that in mind. Although if rum isn't your favorite, you could try making them with bourbon instead.

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.

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.

Mixture should be very thick. At this stage it may be a little too soft or sticky because of our summer heat; so just pop in the fridge for a bit to prevent totally flat bottomed balls.

I haven't had banana pudding in years, and as I recall, it was always with vanilla wafers. The graham crackers worked equally well as a replacement. I'd never used Dream Whip before, but it certainly thickened the pudding nicely.

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.

Use small amounts of McCormick Culinary Imitation Rum Extract as an exceptional substitute for rum in recipes; 2 teaspoons of rum extract equals 1 tablespoon of dark rum, or 1 tablespoon of rum extract equals 5 tablespoons of light rum.

Invented by the Danes, romkugler are indulgent, rich and a little bit tipsy The three main ingredients are chocolate, cake and, of course, rum! This means they lie somewhere in between a cake pop and a chocolate truffle, making them the perfect after-dinner snack.

Does the alcohol evaporate from rum balls? ›

You will unlikely get drunk from eating rum balls because the alcohol is combined with other ingredients and made into many individual balls. However, the alcohol in the rum does not cook out in these balls because they are not baked.

Instead, we blend premium chocolate with toasted ground hazelnuts (feel free to substitute ground almonds), icing sugar, pasteurized egg whites and a premium dark rum. I love the way the coating comes together when it's mixed by hand.

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.

While rum doesn't go bad, it can change in taste and quality over time, so savour it while it's at its best.

An unopened bottle of rum doesn't go bad. Unopened rum can last for decades upon decades. But once the bottle is opened, rum goes pretty fast. Seaspirits Distillery, master rum distillers, recommend drinking a bottle of rum within 6 months of opening.

It is generally recommended not to drink more than one alcoholic drink per day, as this can increase your risk for health problems such as liver disease, heart disease, and cancer. However, if you do choose to drink alcohol, a quarter of a bottle of rum would be within the safe limit.

How Long Does It Take for Rum to Kick In? Alcohol absorbs rapidly into the bloodstream. You may feel effects as quickly as ten minutes, but rum's peak effects generally come between 30-90 minutes after ingestion. If you're drinking on an empty stomach, expect even quicker results.

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.)

Alcohol affects your body quickly. It is absorbed through the lining of your stomach into your bloodstream. Once there, it spreads into tissues throughout your body. Alcohol reaches your brain in only five minutes, and starts to affect you within 10 minutes.