Cake Balls |
But aren't they pretty! They taste great, too. They are like Crack! Very addicting. This is not the recipe you throw together a hour before you have to leave for the party, let me tell ya. If fact I will tell ya:
Cake Balls
1 cake mix, baked according to directions (any that you want)
1 can of icing (that will taste good with the cake!)
Almond bark or chocolate chips for melting and dipping the balls into
decorative sprinkles or nuts (optional)
- Bake your cake and let cool but not completely cold.
- Crumble up the cake (I used a wooden spoon) then add the icing to the cake and mix it all together. You could use a mixer if you want but it only took a few minutes to mix it all together. If you use a warm cake it will be a gooey mess, but yummy to lick your fingers!
- Place the mixture in the fridge overnight or for a few hours.
- Next day roll balls out of mixture and place on parchment lined pan (or wax paper, whatever you've got) and place in the freezer for 15 minutes or so. I use this time to melt my chocolate. I used Almond Bark and to make it a little more Christmassy, I added a half a teaspoon of peppermint flavoring to the melted bark. I'm not sure I'd do that again, it didn't add the pizazz I thought it would.
- If you want sprinkles, ass soon as you coat one ball, have the sprinkles ready to throw at the ball as you lay it on the paper. It hardens almost immediately. I used a big tablespoon and my fingers mainly to twirl the ball around in the bark. I tried toothpicks but that was taking too long.
I store these in the fridge, but I don't know that you have to.
Easy but time consuming. Costs about $5 or less to make, I'd say. You could make the balls bigger or smaller. They do look pretty, don't they!
Merry Christmas! (a wee bit early)
Beautiful Christmas balls of fire- so festive! I'm so behind this year, I didn't even make my Christmas cookies! Maybe tomorrow......:)
ReplyDeleteThe crack balls oops I meant cake balls sound WAY yummy! LOL '-P)
ReplyDeleteI'll be up to my armpits making 4 batches of chocolate chip cookies today for X-mas gifts! :-O)
Wishing you & yours a most joyous holiday season!
Chris >:-)
XOXO
Oh Jaime, isn't that the truth! I think OPRAH would say, that we are trying to hard at the wrong thing and there is something we are meant to learn about it. But I know that never solves the mystery :)
ReplyDeleteThey look absolutely yummy :)
Hope you guys have a Lovely Christmas, T. :)
Thank`s for your kind visit,
ReplyDeleteI too, wishes you a wonderfull christmas, with family and friends.
AND your cake balls looks yummy and fantastic.
XO, Dorthe
Oh yum! I love cake in any form. These look so festive, too, and pretty in that lovely glass dish. Thanks for sharing how you made them. :) I will soon be preparing a trifle for Christmas dessert - with chocolate cake, cherry pie filling, and chocolate pudding! Theresa
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