Chocolate Rum Balls (2024)

FAQs

Does chocolate rum balls contain alcohol? ›

They are roughly the size of a golf ball and often coated in chocolate sprinkles, desiccated coconut, or cocoa. As their name implies, these treats contain rum. Because they are not baked, the alcohol flavour and kick are not neutralized during preparation.

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.

What can you use instead of rum in rum balls? Of course, a traditional rum ball contains rum, but you can use other types of alcohol, including Baileys or a coffee-flavoured liqueur, for example to flavour the truffles. For a non-alcoholic substitute, you could try using fruit juice (orange works well) instead of rum.

If you think it's a little on the dry side, add a splash more rum and give it another good mix. I have always rolled my rum balls in chocolate sprinkles, and then in icing sugar, but you can roll them in just one or the other, or an entirely different coating of your choosing.

Can Kids Eat Rum Balls? Yes, kids can eat rum balls but the rum in them may not be suitable for kids.

The liqueur filled chocolates can not make you drunk. There is so little liqueur compared to the amount of chocolate that you would be sick of eating chocolate before you could get drunk. Does alcoholic chocolate make you high? If you mean, chocolates containing alcohol the answer is NO.

STORAGE TIPS

Much like fruitcake cookies, rum balls taste better when they've had a few days to sit and let the flavor develop. Just pop them into an airtight container and stick them in the fridge for at least 2 days, and up to a couple of weeks.

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.

Maybe you've heard of whiskey fans adding a few drops of water to their neat pours. The same function applies when it comes to rum. Not only does this help high-ABV rum go down a little easier, but a splash of water also opens up the liquor, bringing out the more nuanced idiosyncratic flavor and aromatic notes.

This phenomenon is completely natural and is called flocculation – precipitation from solution in the form of fleecy masses.

How do you reduce the bitterness of rum? ›

Mask it with sugar. This works because alcohol tastes bitter. Mask it sour things, like lemon juice. Again, this works because booze tastes bitter, and sour is the opposite of bitter.

Despite the name, chocolate liquor has nothing to do with alcohol. After roasting and hulling the cacao bean, the resulting nibs of the beans are ground into a dark paste called chocolate liquor. This is the base for all chocolate. Different chocolates contain different percentages of chocolate liquor.

Interestingly enough, the Alcohol by Volume (ABV) is not listed on most liquor-filled chocolate, so that causes some trouble when testing the risk of intoxication. However, some companies are a little more transparent, like the producer of Kahlua chocolates, who states that each chocolate contains 4% alcohol.

Do Lindt products contain alcohol? Other than the aforementioned liqueur-filled products mentioned directly above, the majority of our premium chocolates do not use alcohol as an added ingredient.