Sunday, November 01, 2009

Halloween Cake Balls

I love making things to give away- here a sample of my Halloween Cake Balls- Bakerella is a fabulous site where the cake ball idea orginated.

I box spice cake mix (bake as directed in 9 x 13 pan)
1 can cream cheese frosting
Colored candy melts or chocolate bark
sprinles, green tictacs, frosting eye balls
candy/lollypop sticks

After the cake is baked- crumble it into pieces in a large bowl
Add 3/4 of the can of frosting and mix it together with a large wooden spoon (your hands work much better than a spoon!)
Roll into 1" balls- I used my 1" melon scoop
place onto cookie sheet covered in wax paper and freeze for 1 hour

Melt chocolate melts in microwave- stir every 30 seconds.
It's so easy to use chocolate melts- just don't let it come into contact with water and it will work everytime

Without lollypop sticks- dip cake balls into melted chocolate bark/candy melts and place onto wax paper to set up. Press in sprinkles or whatever decoration you want to use immediately after dipping

With lollypop sticks- dip stick into melted bark and stab into cake ball before dipping. Dip cake ball into bark and stick into styrofoam to set up or a glass- but they will stick together so be careful. Add spinkles etc immediately after dipping. Let sit for 20 min and they should be set up.

Think of the endless possibilities for these- 
Chocolate cake- caramel/buttercream/cream cheese frosting
White cake- buttercream/strawberry/cream cheese frosting
Red velvet cake- cream cheese frosting

This won't be the end of the cake balls!





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