How to Make Rum Balls

1. Find someone to make the Rum Balls. (Heather)

2. Find a taste-tester who will also double as a photographer. (Me)

3. Acquire a Rum Ball Recipe. This particular recipe is short on details, but it works!

4. Ingredients: Vanilla wafers.

5. Cocoa powder

6. Pecans (Note: We didn't have pecans, so we used walnuts)
(Don't worry. People won't care they're not pecans. People would care if there wasn't any rum!)

7. Confectioners sugar

8. RUM!

9. Chop the vanilla wafers

Make sure they're good and chopped!

10. Deposit the wafer bits into a large mixing bowl.

11. Measure the nuts of choice.

12. Chop the nuts.

13. Add the chopped nuts to the chopped wafers.

14. Add the cocoa powder to the mix.

15. Add the powdered sugar.

16. Mix the dry ingredients together.

Time for the rum!

Have you ever noticed how rum rhymes with yum?

17. Start with 1/2 cup and see how well that works.

18. Pour the rum into the dry ingredients and mix well.

19. Not enough rum? Try another 1/4 cup!

20. After the consistency is perfect, form the balls one at a time and then roll in a small bowl of powdered sugar.

21. Don't forget to smile. There's RUM in there!

22. Place the completed balls in an air tight container for storage.

23. Ponder the fact that there is still rum left!

24. Taste test!

Me too! Note: What looks like powdered sugar all over the front of my shirt is actually sugar caught mid-fall by the flash. After I took the photo I noticed a large area of powdered sugar on the floor in front of me, but it wasn't until going back through the images on the computer that I saw they were captured in time!

Enjoy and Merry Christmas!