Clean-out-the-pantry Rum Balls

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My Ex's grandmother made wicked rum balls. You could get drunk just smelling those puppies. I have her recipe in one of my binders full of paper recipes. This year, though< I decided to wing it a little. I had a bit of rum left from my summer stock (I buy a bottle each year for mojitos). I had some chocolate gram cracker crumbs left from the last time I made rum balls. I had some walnuts and ground almonds and coconut from previous projects. I didn't have any cocoa, but I had corn syrup for the planned experiment in making my own marshmallow fluff. So here's what I did:

1 c chocolate graham cracker crumbs
1 c shredded unsweetened coconut
1/2 c rum
2 Tbsp corn syrup
1 c nuts (I used about 2/3 ground almonds and 1/3 chopped walnuts)
1/2 c Splenda (granulated sugar would have worked equally well, but I had Splenda I wanted to get rid of)
1/2 c confectioner's sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Mix it all together and roll into balls about the size of a walnut, then set on wax paper to harden a bit. You should end up with about 25-30 balls of mid-century yumminess.

This recipe was milder than Grandma Moore's but quite tasty.