Fig Truffles With Rum

"Fig truffles with rum. Have you heard a sweeter sentence in your life? Dry figs integrated with chocolate and rum, then rolled in coarsely ground almonds for the win! The process for these fig truffles with rum is almost identical to making our other truffles (the ones with chocolate hazelnut), and similar to homemade Raffaello balls. (There’s a recipe of a cake roll somewhere here also.) Mom got the phone call about six months ago. It’s available. It has to be now though! Click. She came over immediately. Sister, niece and I sat down with her to discuss. The deliberations were complicated. The information we had was scarce, but more trickled in by the minute. "