Rum ball then coated. In Hungary they are made in a similar way, but usually rolled in sugar. Ground walnut and raisins are sometimes added to the rum ball ingredients. Some Hungarian rum balls are made with whole cherries placed inside the balls, and then rolled in coconut flakes (). Rum balls closely resemble brigadeiros, a Brazilian sweet; however, brigadeiros are made from condensed milk. The world's largest rum ball was created in Mejdal, Denmark on 11 June 2017, weighing . Rum ball Rum balls are a truffle-like confectionery cake of cookie butter flavoured with chocolate and rum. They are roughly the
Rum the first rum distillery in the British colonies of North America was set up in 1664 on Staten Island. Boston, Massachusetts had a distillery three years later. The manufacture of rum became early Colonial New England's largest and most prosperous industry. New England became a distilling center due to the technical, metalworking and cooperage skills and abundant lumber; the rum produced there was lighter, more like whiskey. Rhode Island rum even joined gold as an accepted currency in Europe for a period of time. Estimates of rum consumption in the American colonies before the American Revolutionary War had every man,