Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, fruitcake balls/ christmas balls. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Fruitcake Balls/ Christmas balls is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Fruitcake Balls/ Christmas balls is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have fruitcake balls/ christmas balls using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Fruitcake Balls/ Christmas balls:
- Take 800 grams dark fruit cake
- Get 250 grams Dark cooking chocolate
- Prepare 125 grams butter
- Take 200 grams white cooking chocolate
- Take 10 glazed cherries / real cherries
- Prepare 2 tbsp Rum/Brandy
If you are looking for some healthy snacks for Christmas and love a good fruit cake then you are going to love these Christmas Fruit Cake Bliss Balls! In large bowl, with wooden spoon, beat shortening, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon until well combined. Break the Christmas cake into pieces then blend in the food processor for a few minutes to turn into crumbs. Place in the fridge for a couple of hours.
Instructions to make Fruitcake Balls/ Christmas balls:
- crush dark chocolate fruit cake into bowl using fork
- melt butter and pour into crushed cake
- melt dark chocolate in microwave or over stove and pour into crushed cake
- Add 2 tablespoons rum into mix
- roll into balls and place on baking paper
- leave to set for 5 minutes in fridge
- cut cherries into quarters
- melt white chocolate and dip a bit of the balls into white chocolate
- top it off by putting two cherry quarters on each to represent mistletoe and leave in fridge until white chocolate is hard.
Break the Christmas cake into pieces then blend in the food processor for a few minutes to turn into crumbs. Place in the fridge for a couple of hours. A few years ago, I published my Christmas Apricot and Walnut Fruitcake recipe and it has done quite well. In terms of popularity and views, it is one of the most viewed Christmas recipes on the blog. Not everyone has the desire to prepare a fruitcake though, so I thought why not make a cookie that has a fruitcake-like flavour, and is light and fluffy.
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