Chocolate Cherry Kid Friendly Rum Balls

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 80
• 1 (250 g) package light cream cheese, block style, at room temperature
• 175 g semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 175 g butterscotch chips
• 15 ml rum extract or 50 ml rum
• 15 -20 ml water (omit if using real rum)
• 625 ml graham wafer crumbs
• 1 cup maraschino cherry, finely chopped & well drained
• chocolate sprinkles (also called chocolate shot)

Recipe

• 1 chop up maraschino cherries, set aside.
• 2 beat cream cheese with food processor or wooden spoon.
• 3 melt chocolate and butterscotch chips in microwave on medium power for 1 minute at a time until melted; stir lots after each minute to make sure you don't burn it.
• 4 beat chocolate mixture into cream cheese; mix in rum, water, cherries and graham wafer crumbs.
• 5 (the amount of water depends on the type of cream cheese you use, if using light add the minimum amount of water).
• 6 refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• 7 with your hands, roll out about one teaspoon of the mixture at a time into balls.
• 8 put chocolate sprinkles in a small bowl (such as a cream cheese container), roll rum balls in the sprinkles one at a time.
• 9 store in refrigerator.
• 10 if you are making these for a gathering/occasion, roll the rum balls the day before or day of, they do keep for about 2 weeks in the fridge, but at that time the chocolate sprinkles do soften slightly.
• 11 yield: about 80 rum balls.