Festive Pine Cone Chocolate Rum Balls Recipe (video)

[Saviolo]

We adapted this from a recipe that we've seen go somewhat viral on other platforms. It is super easy and looks amazing. We used just box cake mix for our chocolate cake for this one. Betty Crocker "chocolate fudge" if you're curious. But honestly, it doesn't matter, use your favourite chocolate cake recipe to make these. You want something moist and not too dense, because you're going to be crumbling the cake up and mixing it with condensed milk and rum anyway, so the final texture is going to be pretty dense. We also find it helps to let the cake get one day stale before using it for this.

If you want to do this as a fun food craft with kids, you can obviously remove the rum, and flavour this with something else. You could use some vanilla and orange juice for a chocolate orange flavour, or even a little bit of cranberry juice or passionfruit for a really zingy chocolatey treat. You do have to be a little bit careful with the toasted almond slices as they break easily, but they were much easier to assemble than I though they would be. We used Havana Club 7 year for this, but any dark sweet rum (like Kraken or Blackwell) will work just fine.

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