Every Christmas for the past few years, my Mum makes these Christmas Cake balls (I help!) We got the recipe from my godson's mum.
The recipe is as follows:
800g fruit cake
250g block milk or white chocolate
125g butter
2-3 tablespooms of Irish whiskey (or you can substitute with another liqueur such as rum, brandy, Kahlua, Frangelico etc or use vanilla essence or orange juice)
Melt half the block of chocolate and the butter in a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water.
Crumble the fruit cake in and add the liqueur and mix it in.
Spread greaseproof paper on baking trays and using a teaspoon amount of the mixture, roll it into balls and then put them in the fridge for a few hours to set until they become hard.
Then melt the rest of the chocolate in a bowl as before and spread a teaspoon's amount over the top of each cake ball until it is completely covered.
Makes 40.
Usually my mum & I make them using Kahlua and 125g milk chocolate (for the mixture) and 125g white chocolate (for the icing). We also add a quarter of a red glace cherry to each one, so it looks like a mini Christmas pudding!
Don't they look cute?
