Liquor Sweets

[Furore]

I tend to rarely buy any liquor based sweets as often they're expensive, but I do love rumballs and many other such delicacies. Hell the idea for this thread came from the Gran's Bundaberg rum fudge I'm currently eating that I got on sale yesterday.

I notice many of these products have very little if any actual alcohol content due to how they're prepared, but I love the taste way too much. My main problem is that I have them so seldom I can't be sure which items will taste great, and which ones will taste shit, overpriced or nasty in some other ways.

So what liquor based sweets do any of you like? And why do you like those in particular?

[Violet]

I'd like to try a rumball..

Well, I used to have this huge box with small liqor chocolates inside. They were shaped like tiny beer bottles and you had to bite the bottom and drain out the alcohol into your mouth. My favorite ones were a strawberry drink. Anyways, there was like.. 72 of those. I ate all of them within 3 days.. all on my own. Sometimes, the tinfoil wrapper would stick to them and I'd get it in my mouth.. that was gross ><. They started tasting sort of bland after awhile.

[Sinister]

Bourbon Balls. Only Kentucky bourbon can make them worthwhile. Also, I used to enjoy Courvoisier cigars...but I've quit smoking forever. Also they have a privately-owned candy store in Frankfort that makes any known truffle invented with a heavy dose of Kentucky bourbons. I usually buy the mistake bags (a variety collection of botched candies sold at discount prices) and they tend to have twice the already powerful amount of bourbon in them, which for me, is just right. To be specific, I like the milk-chocolate covered orange jellys with a double dose of bourbon.

The greatest thing is to buy a bag of them and then drive down the road to the capitol building and set in on the meetings of the House of Representatives. It's funny as hell once you've got the blood alcohol level of Foster Brooks...><

-Sin

[Maridia]

Sin isn't all Bourbon from Kentucky? I thought that was one of the rules it had to be to make it Bourbon, otherwise it's just Whiskey. I thought the rules was only from there and made mostly from the ground up corn...though I could be wrong, I'm not a mixologist, which yes is a term.

For sweets with liquor mixed I don't recall any I've had off hand though I'm suuure I've had one sometime or another. The best one I ever heard of though was taking brownie mix and adding some Godiva Chocolate Liquer in with it. Granted you have several flavors of Brownies and Godiva so it'd be up to you..

I also heard from a stoner once how if you have those popsicle stick and shape thingies that you can just pour in whatever you'de like to make it your own special popsicle. I was told to take a juice and mix it really with whatever you wanted, but he took some mix juice of like apple, grape, and cranberry, but mixed 99 Bananas into it...I suppose it could work? A subtle way to get shitfaced indeed.

[Chez Daja]

I'm not a fan of rumballs, but I generally like chocolate with whisky in them.
I'm only keen on various wines inside of chocolate.

Whisky ones are my favourite, and in moderation at that. Too many tend to make me feel a bit sick. But in all, they're usually a thumbs up.

[OceanEyes28]

Ooh lord, we made rum balls once. They were incredibly delicious and I'm hoping to make them again. I just need, uh... rum.

I suppose I could count the sweet liqueurs I've had, because they really are like liquid candy. Uh... vodka raspberry sherbet was done once... and Jello shots every New Years.

And beer bread isn't sweet, but it's a favorite. And I've never done the vodka watermelon thing and I can't tell if I'm curious or not.

Watching all of you talk about your various booze candies makes me want to try new things.

[Sean]

Sin isn't all Bourbon from Kentucky? I thought that was one of the rules it had to be to make it Bourbon, otherwise it's just Whiskey. I thought the rules was only from there and made mostly from the ground up corn...though I could be wrong, I'm not a mixologist, which yes is a term.

Bourbon may be produced anywhere in the United States where it is legal to distill spirits. Currently most brands are produced in Kentucky, where Bourbon has a strong association. Other states producing bourbon include Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, New Jersey, and New York.[4] In the past, bourbon has also been made in Illinois and Pennsylvania.

Source - Wikipedia

and I've had a number of Tennesee bourbons. For a whiskey to be labled bourbon it has to be 51% or more distilled from corn.