Rum Balls

Source & History

I have made thousands of dozens of these in my time. The annual fundraiser at Amy's school in Mackay (Kewarra) was the Rum Ball Drive which was held every year in November. Members of the P&C would go into the school each day for a week and spend every day making rum balls, & bagging them for sale. We all had jobs that we usually did and mine was rolling the mixture into balls. To this day, my rum balls are all the same size - though they might be a little larger than we would have been allowed to make for the drive. At the time, the exact recipe was a secret but one year I bought the ingredients, so I knew what went into them. When I decided to make some rum balls for home consumption a few Christmases ago, I searched for recipes on the net until I found this one. It's the one that we used at Kewarra every year (so much for "secret" recipes!).

Notes

• we keep our rum balls in the freezer and eat them frozen.
• I usually double this recipe - if you want more, make extra batches because the mixture becomes too difficult to mix if you use more than double quantities
• I use skim condensed milk - no one has been able to tell the difference in the 4 years I have been doing it.
• I usually put in 4 tbsp rum (8 when it's doubled).
• Variations: you could use mixed fruit instead of sultanas if you wanted to. Leah puts a Malteaser in the centre of hers when she makes them.