Rum Balls - A No Bake recipe for Easy Entertaining (2024)

FAQs

Can you get tipsy off rum balls? ›

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.

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.

What is this? My kid-friendly rum balls are also known as chocolate coconut balls or 'donkey drops' - because of their resemblance to... well... you know what! They're the perfect recipe for getting the kids in the kitchen - you can see how easy it is for my Mr 4 to make them in the video below!

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.

small, soft, delicious bite-size chocolate rum balls

you can easily substitute the rum with water or milk and make them appropriate for kids, pregnant ladies, or those who don't drink alcohol in general.

Anytime you cook with alcohol, it should cook out. And you're left with the flavor, not the alcoholic content. Wild, Just wanted you to know that the rum in the cakes are safe to eat for the younger ones. The rum is cooked out during the baking process.

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 and co*ke, or the Cuba libre (/ˌkjuːbə ˈliːbreɪ/ KEW-bə LEE-bray, Spanish: [ˈkuβa ˈliβɾe]; literally "Free Cuba"), is a highball co*cktail consisting of cola, rum, and in many recipes lime juice on ice.

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. Then take spoonfuls of the mixture and make your balls by rolling between your palms then roll in coconut.

How long will rum balls keep in the fridge? ›

A Christmas favourite. These can be stored in the fridge for up to one month.

Depending on the recipe used, they can be pretty stable but if you're not going to eat them within a few days they freeze quite well in a sealed freezer bag. How long does an open bottle of rum stay good? Generally speaking, rum like any spirit at or above 40 percent abv (80 proof) doesn't expire.

An average rum cake has around 1/2 cup rum to bake the cake and eating two to three pieces of dry rum cake is too less to get you drunk. However, if you soak the cake in rum after baking and serve it after refrigeration, then eating too much cake can get you a little intoxicated.

Combine cookie crumbs, sugar, 1 cup chopped walnuts, corn syrup, rum and cocoa. Mix well. Form into 1 inch balls. Roll balls in reserved walnuts.

An average rum cake has around 1/2 cup rum to bake the cake and eating two to three pieces of dry rum cake is too less to get you drunk. However, if you soak the cake in rum after baking and serve it after refrigeration, then eating too much cake can get you a little intoxicated.

How strong that rum is, how big you are, how fast you consume those shots, etc. The normal human adult liver can remove the alcohol in one “normal” shot (1.5 oz) in about an hour. so if you sip each shot over an hour, you shouldn't really get “drunk.” A 200 pound person can handle more liquor than a 100 pound person.

Can I get drunk from eating your bourbon balls? Highly unlikely. The balls are bite-sized, maybe two bite-sized, so you would have to eat a lot of them. You are more likely to experience a sugar high, than a buzz, so we feel it is a safe indulgence.

“Ultimately inebriation depends on the dose, and there's not enough alcohol in a dessert that would lead to an effect,” Das says. That certainly makes sense with something like my Bourbon Blondies, whose 1/4 cup of bourbon is initially baked off (partially), then distributed across a pan of 25 servings. That's .