Chocolate Cherry Kid Friendly Rum Balls

Ingredients

• 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)

Directions

1. 1

   Chop up maraschino cherries, set aside.

2. 2

   Beat cream cheese with food processor or wooden spoon.

3. 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. 4

   Beat chocolate mixture into cream cheese; Mix in rum, water, cherries and graham wafer crumbs.

5. 5

   (the amount of water depends on the type of cream cheese you use, if using light add the minimum amount of water).

6. 6

   Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

7. 7

   With your hands, roll out about one teaspoon of the mixture at a time into balls.

8. 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. 9

   Store in refrigerator.

10. 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. 11

    Yield: about 80 rum balls.