Cheat's rum pudding truffles

ingredients

• Cheat's rum pudding truffles

  • 2 x 350g plum puddings
  • 50 gram butter, melted
  • 1/3 cup (35g) dutch cocoa
  • 1/4 cup (60ml) rum
  • 150 gram white chocolate, chopped coarsely
  • 8 glacé cherries, cut into quarters

method

• Cheat's rum pudding truffles

  • 1

    Crumble puddings into small pieces in a large bowl.

  • 2

    Combine butter, cocoa and rum in a small bowl, stir until smooth. Add butter mixture to the pudding, stir to combine.

  • 3

    Roll slightly rounded tablespoons of the mixture into 32 balls. Place on a baking-paper-lined tray.

  • 4

    Melt white chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water (don't let water touch base of bowl). Cool chocolate slightly until thickened, but still pourable.

  • 5

    Spoon a little chocolate over the top of each pudding allowing it to drip down the sides slightly, top puddings with a piece of cherry. Refrigerate until firm.