Cake Balls...

Go ahead and laugh at the name... Is it a sign of immaturity when you still laugh when someone says balls? Anyways... These seem to be all the rage on tons of food blogs (and Neimans is selling them in their catalog, so they have to be good right?), so I am jumping on the bandwagon. Devin's birthday is Saturday, so I made him some of these to take to work tomorrow. We have decided that this is just another sign of how desperately we need children. And Devin is such a good sport that he isn't even embarrassed to take them in... and he said people at work were looking forward to getting a treat tomorrow. So, I am not embarrassed for him either (but he did make me just put them on a platter... see picture below).



There are only three ingredients (and they are totally gourmet)...

1 box cake (any flavor... I used yellow cake)

1 can of frosting (any kind... I used cream cheese frosting)

dipping chocolate



All you do is bake the cake as directed (just use a 9x13 pan). I guess this makes it more than 3 ingredients since you will have to add water, oil, and eggs to make the cake... sorry for the misrepresentation.

While it is still warm, just crumble it up (I just used my hands... ewww...)

Add the frosting (I used almost the whole thing)

Form into balls (heehee). You can use a melon baller if you have one. I don't. Maybe I should invest. I just used my hands.

Put them into the freezer for a while.

A few hours later, melt the chocolate. I used the white chocolate stuff for these. Dip the balls into the chocolate and put on wax paper to set. I used lollipop sticks for these because I thought they looked cute. I then dipped them into various toppings (I used sprinkles, heath bar, and m&m's).


I know my directions aren't great, but there are tons and tons of sites with how to make them. Just google it and you will find much better directions than these.



People get very creative with these... There are tons of flavor choices you can mix and match. And you can make them look really cute too. Look at this site. They are all for Halloween, but it shows how creative you can be with them.



And the most important thing of all... Devin likes them! And he is pretty picky as far as what sweets he will eat!