Rum Balls

by Febrina Picone Malloy

Ingredients:
2 TB cocoa
1 cup sifted confectioners sugar
1/4 cup rum or bourbon
2 TB light corn syrup
2 1/2 cups crushed vanilla wafers (about 66)
1 cup broken pecans or walnuts

Directions:
1. Sift together cocoa and sugar.
2. Combined rum and corn syrup and stir into cocoa mixture.
3. Add vanilla wafers and walnuts.
4. Mix thoroughly.
5. Roll mixture into small balls and dredge with powdered sugar (1/4 to 1/2 cup)
6. Cover tightly and store to ripen.