Joyous Rum Balls - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (12 ounce) bag melted semi-sweet chocolate chips, by trader joe's
1 (12 ounce) box vanilla wafer cookies, ground fine
1 1/4 cups of myers coconut rum
3/4 cup turbinado sugar or 3/4 cup other not bleached sugar
3/4 cup caro corn syrup, at room temperature
toppings to taste
1/2 cup coconut flakes
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 cup trader joes sesame honey-roasted almond

Preparation

in a large non metal mixing bowl with a wooden spoon:
mix the smashed nilla wafers with the turbinado sugar and the rum.
incorporate the caro light corn syrup.
incorporate the melted semisweet chocolate chips.
let the mixture cool to a workable consistency
line a jelly roll tray with parchment, put your surgical gloves on to start rolling the rum balls about 1 tsp in size - or slightly smaller than a doughnut hole.
As you roll the rum balls up (slightly smaller than a doughnut hole)~~
Roll them in a tray of coconut flakes and chopped almonds (I love the trader joe's sesame honey almonds), or you can embed a whole almond on the rum ball and roll in powdered sugar and coconut flakes. Either way is quite tasty.
Place rum balls on the parchment and let set up for a little while - you can refrigerate them.