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Everyone loves cake balls. They are as fun to eat as they are to make.
A delicious bite of cake covered in chocolate, cake balls can be made with any flavor of cake mix. of course I chose lemon!
How to Make Cake Balls
Your first step is to select your cake flavor and a can of frosting to go with it – I used lemon and lemon!
Making cake balls is more like a craft project than a cooking project.
You start by baking your cake according to the directions and letting it cool.
After it is cool I cut it into fourths and crumbled it all into a bowl.
After it is crumbled add in 2/3 of the container of frosting. If it isn’t quite moist enough add a little more frosting but you don’t want them to be too moist and mushy!
Mix the frosting and the cake crumbs together using a fork until well blended. You should not see any of the frosting.
Using a cookie scoop form balls of cake dough. Place on cookie sheet.
Freeze cake balls for at least an hour. They need to be firm when you dip them in the chocolate or you will have a mess.
The next part is the fun part and the messy part -coating the cake balls.
I used white almond bark and yellow “melts” to go with my lemon theme.
I used my Pampered Chef vegetable steamer to melt my almond bark in the microwave but you can also use a double boiler.
You can place your cake ball on a fork and dip into the melted chocolate
I preferred placing the ball on the end of a lollipop stick and dipping it that way. When you remove it off the stick you will have to do a little patch work and fill in the hole left by the stick with some chocolate.
After all the cake balls are dipped let the chocolate harden – it won’t take long.
My dipping skills could use a little work!
I then put my yellow “melts” right into a squeeze bottle and placed it in the microwave to melt the “melts!”
Using the squeeze bottle I decorated the tops of my cake balls with little yellow flowers – aren’t they cute!
They looked better on a pretty plate.
You can get creative with your cake balls – what flavor combination of cake and frosting will you use?? Leave a comment and let me know!
Tamara Reber says
What a fun idea! Thanks for sharing!
Leigh Anne says
Kirsty,
They are pretty rich – I could only eat one! I don’t mind the taste of almond bark. I am thinking I might like chocolate better than lemon???
I think Stephanie’s idea of strawberry with cream cheese frosting might be a good one toO!
Stephanie says
How cute! I’m so excited to try this recipe! I might do a strawberry cake w/ cream cheese frosting. Or maybe, pretend to be healthy and do a carrot cake/cream cheese combo! Although something chocolatey sounds good too!!
LeCole says
Strawberry with cream cheese icing is so great!!! I made them for a baby shower and they were gone before anything else…….
Danielle says
Beware of making them TOO sweet. I know that sounds strange, but the strawberry with strawberry icing I made was SOOOO sweet that you could only have one and then you needed about a gallon of milk to wash it away. The next time I used a fluffly white icing and it was much better!
ERika says
I found using strawberry jam with the strawberry cake. YUM!
Kirsty says
They are so cute! How did they taste? I made cake balls for Christmas. They looked very pretty but I ended up tossing them all because I can’t stand the taste of chocolate bark. It is so waxy and gross. At least it was for me. Any way around it? (I am a bit of a chocolate snob 😉
Tina M says
I know this is late, and you may never see this…. But, I agree with you about the almond bark and the Wilton melts. They are waxy and have an aftertaste, plus they are HARD. I went to a local bakery supply store and asked what the bakeries used as chocolate for their truffles. Merckens chocolate. There are little disk melts too. The dark chocolate actually tastes like a semi-sweet chip, not bitter, and rounds out the sweetness of a chocolate-fudgey cake ball. Add shortening (never milk or water) to thin the chocolate and you will get a smooth, soft chocolate coating. Merckens makes dark choc., milk choc., and white…plus many color varieties.
Leigh Anne says
Thanks for the info! I have been buying mine at a local cake decorating shop.
Courtney says
love the lemon flair to your cake balls!! i love lemon anything, great month of recipes for you!