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These sweet little treats seem to be all the rage this year, and I made them for our office Christmas party.  I first heard about these from a really great site called Bakerella, this women is some kind of talented.  She really is amazing.  Though mine pale in comparison to her’s they were mighty delicious and fun to make.

I used Spice cake mix and cream cheese frosting with both white and chocolate bark for dipping  The great thing about these balls is you can play around with a number of different cake mixes, frosting and bark and come up with some really great ideas.

Ingredients: 1 box cake mix, 1 can frosting, 1 bag almond bark
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Bake your cake to box directions, let cool for 1 hour and be sure to sample a piece

(not really but DT couldn’t resist)

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In a large bowl use 2 forks and start crumbling the cake

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Till it looks like this

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Then add about 3/4 the can of frosting, any more than that and I think it makes it too mushy

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Once the frosting is fully incorporated it will look like this, so appetizing.

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Roll the cake mixture into balls and place on a lined cookie sheet and put in the freezer for 1 hour to harden, this makes it easier when dipping the cake balls into the chocolate

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Take the chocolate a put in a bowl and nuke for about 1 minute till melted

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Then take the frozen cake balls and dip them in the chocolate and roll them till fully covered

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Place them back on the lined cookie sheet to harden

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These are guaranteed to be at hit!  The kids love them and it would be a great dessert for them to help making.

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Cake Balls

You take any flavor cake mix and bake according to directions.  Let cool and then crumble into a big bowl.  Add any flavor of icing and mix well.  Roll into half-inch balls and chill in freezer for about an hour.  Melt down baking chocolate (I like Ghiardelli’s) and dip each ball into the chocolate and then re-freeze until chocolate is set.  If you use the right kind of chocolate it shouldn’t melt on your fingers and can be kept at room temperature for a good while.

Some flavor combination ideas:

Devil’s Food Cake mix with Chocolate Cream Cheese icing and flaked coconut mixed in dipped in dark chocolate.

Yellow Cake mix with Coconut Pecan icing dipped in white chocolate.

A cute idea for Easter would be egg shaped balls of Confetti cake mix with vanilla icing dipped in white chocolate colored with pastel food coloring.

Other ideas:

Spice Cake or Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting

Red velvet w/cream cheese frosting dipped in white chocolate

Strawberry cake with vanilla frosting, dipped in dark chocolate

This post is listed @
Kelly’s Korner, “Christmas Cookies and Treats”

Christmas Cookie Exchange 2009


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34 Responses

  1. OMG! I can make this! I’m almost sure of it! I think I’ll give this one a try to take as a dessert for christmas and christmas eve! Oh! I’m so excited I can finally do something on your site! lol

  2. Yours look better than mine did! But man they are SO yummy no matter how they look. We used the Christmas Cake Mix with red and green mix ins and vanilla frosting and then dipped them in chocolate. So Good!

  3. It’s so much funnier when a woman says “stop touching my balls”.

    I’m a big fan of 3C’s too. My name starts with “C” of course, “C” is for cookie, and that’s good enough for me (site: Cookie Monster) and “C” is for coffee….still haven’t had my morning cup!

    My mom snubbed me bad one year at Christmas and gave my brother a box of spiced wafer cookies. I got gots. No cookies for me!

    If you want to see a look of pure evil and cookie envy on my face, follow the link below.

    http://www.giggleon.com/merry-christamas-ooops-sitsmas/

    I’ve got a funny Christmas post coming up and I think this post is perfect for me to link to. I’ll keep you posted.

  4. These look delightful…so many options! The Christmas themed cake balls posted on Bakerella are adorable but way too much work for me. Yours seem do-able! Thanks!

  5. Ohh, those look tasty! I’m going to have to try those this week I think.. maybe with some white chocolate and crushed candy canes 🙂 (Apparently I love pumpkin in October/November and peppermint in December.)

  6. It’s so awesome that you posted about cake balls! I just posted a recipe from allrecipes.com on my Sabbath-Prep Saturday post and I truly am so excited to try them! It’s cool to see how well yours turned out! Thank you so much for linking up with us today and I’ll look forward to seeing you next Monday! Have a wonderful holiday season!

  7. I’m so glad you posted this! I had one of these for the first time the other day and it was so YUMMY!!! Of course, I had no idea how they made ’em, but now I do. Thanks! I may have to try this myself.

  8. I have seen cake balls on Bakerella before, but been very hesitant to make them. I think they would be so yummy and fun, and the kiddos would really love to get involved! Thanks for sharing, and for the different variation ideas! I think I might finally try it!

  9. Oooh…I want to try these. I think my hubby would really like the spice cake ones. I’m going to write this one down to make next week. Thanks for sharing it with us!

    Hope you’re having a great day!
    Karen

  10. I made these with chocolate cake, icing and milk chocolate. SOOOOO good! My coworkers ate all of em’.

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