Bacardi Rum Balls

Entered for safe-keeping for ZWT5. From ElBoricua.com, Puerto Rican cooking site. Edited 12/16/13: The El Boricua website now lists the ingredients as: 1 box vanilla wafers, crushed; 3 Tbsp. cocoa; 1 1/2 cups finely chopped walnuts, 4 1/2 Tbsp. corn syrup, 1/3 cup rum, and 1 cup confectioners sugar (plus more for rolling balls). (It states that finely chopped coconut may also be added.) Current recipe says it makes 50-60 balls.

• Ready In: 15 mins
• Yields: 18 rum balls

Ingredients

• 1  cup  vanilla wafer, crushed
• 1  cup pecans or 1  cup walnuts, crushed
• 1⁄4 cup honey
• 1⁄2 cup Bacardi dark rum
•  powdered sugar or  confectioners' sugar or  icing sugar, for coating

Directions

1. Crush the Vanilla Wafers using a food processor or if you don't have one, put the wafers in a sealed plastic bag and use a rolling pin (or wine bottle) to crush finely, no chunks or lumps.
2. Crush the nuts using the same process as for wafers.
3. Place in a large bowl, add the honey and rum.
4. Form into small balls and roll in powdered sugar.