Recipe for easy homemade rum balls
Rum balls are a real bestseller at the bakery, but in fact, the popular little treat is insanely easy to make yourself – and homemade rum balls taste amazing.
It’s obvious to use leftovers from one or more types of cakes in the recipe, but you can naturally also bake a cake specifically for this purpose.

Ingredients
- 700 gram cake can easily be leftovers of various types of cakes
- 20 gram Almond Flour
- 40 gram jam choose the one you have in stock
- 5 gram Cocoa
- 15 gram Rum Essence
- 200 gram Dark chocolate
- Cocoa for rolling the finished rum balls in
Instructions
- Crumble the cake into a bowl and add almond flour, jam, rum essence, and cocoa.
- Melt the chocolate over a water bath and remove from heat.
- Add the melted chocolate to the cake mixture and mix everything well together.
- Alternatively, you can put all the ingredients into a food processor and let it run until the mixture is cohesive.
- Form the cake mixture into approximately 25 rum balls.
- Pour cocoa into a deep plate and roll the rum balls in it.
- Store your finished rum balls in the refrigerator until they are ready to be eaten.

