Serious Rum Balls

Description
Highly alcoholic sweet treats for the Holiday season. Makes 30 rum balls.

Ingredients

 * 10 Weet-Bix (approximately 150g of dry low-sugar grain breakfast cereal)
 * 395g can Sweetened Condensed Milk
 * 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
 * 1/3 cup desicated coconut
 * Extra desicated coconut for coating
 * 1/3 cup sultanas
 * 400mL dark rum (i.e. this recipe is not for children)

Directions

 * Soak sultanas in rum, 4-8 hours
 * Crush Weet-Bix cereal to sub-pea size
 * Add rum + sultanas mix, result is quite moist
 * Stir thoroughly and refrigerate, 4-8 hours
 * Form into ping-pong ball sized balls
 * Roll in extra coconut
 * Freeze until time to serve
 * Each ball is approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of a "standard drink", so put a warning on the container and keep out of reach of children

Options

 * Scale the recipe up according to how much rum you have. Go on, use the whole 1.25 litre duty-free bottle (makes 100)!
 * Add nuts and the like. Crush them.
 * Try other spirits: brandy, whisky.
 * Try other cereals. Corn flakes and tequila for a Mexican version?