Food & Wine’s rum balls are the perfect no-bake holiday treat. They combine toasty pecans and crushed chocolate cookies with powdered sugar and cocoa, all bound together with a sweet rum syrup. They ...

In a food processor, pulse the vanilla wafers and pecans until finely ground, about 15 seconds. Add the powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and salt. Pulse to combine, about 5 times. Transfer the vanilla ...

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With spring on the horizon, it’s hard not to get excited about beach trips, Caribbean vacations and coconut infused frozen drinks. However for many, an exotic vacation away is more of a dream than a ...

Healthy Dessert Recipe: Yummy, Low-Cal Rum Balls! Celebrity chef Devin Alexander shares her recipe for rum balls that contain half the calories and a tiny fraction of the fat in traditional ...

Anna Painter is a trained culinary professional who has been testing, developing, and writing recipes for a decade. She was an associate editor at Food & Wine. Anna has worked on such projects as The ...

Not to be a Scrooge, but I always found the holiday festivities to be one big confectionary letdown. That is until I had a rum ball. No fruit cake or Christmas tree-shaped sugar cookie ever put a ...