Cake Balls

One of the very fun things I heard about at the last crop weekend I attended were Cake Balls.  After a very funny explanation of how to make these from my up line I decided I would try them.  Of course I did not remember everything she said so I googled for them and found them.  The first part is simple:

• Bake a cake: any flavor.  Being close to Valentines Day I chose Red Velvet, my husband's favorite!
• After cool, crumble up your whole cake into a large bowl. Listen to your husband asking what you are doing to the cake :-)
• Mix a small can of frosting into the cake. My crop friends said a half of a can, the recipe said a whole.  I think you could do either.
• Form round balls about an inch in diameter and set on parchment paper.  Depending on the size you end up with you will have 40 to 48 Cake Balls.
• Allow these to cool, I found the freezer the very best place!

After the Cake Balls are good and chilled you just dip them in chocolate, then tap the top into a small bowl of sprinkles, let them cool and place them in a pretty little candy paper. 

Some melt their chocolate in a double boiler, others use the microwave but I found the easiest way was using a Wilton Chocolate pot.  Take your half price coupon to Michael's some week and treat yourself to one, it will only be about $12 and it won't take up much space!   After several emails of advice from my crop friends I finally got the right combination of ingredients down. I know, how often do we just tell each other how to make such a simple thing :-)    I used one bag of white and one bag of dark chocolate chips, use butter Crisco (a tsp or so as you need it) to thin your chocolate and add just a bit of paraffin wax (maybe two tsp)  to give them that pretty glossy look. 

Remember, the Cake Balls were frozen, making it very easy to use a wood skewer to dip the balls in the melted chocolate and then the sprinkles.  Stick the other end of the skewer into a piece of floral foam or something to let them set.

It is pretty simple once you get it the process down.  Warning, I found myself wishing I had two chocolate pots because I had the urge for double dipping.

There was some left over chocolate I hated to see go to waste so I pulled out a bag of pretzels and dipped those too!  I think you can dip almost anything in chocolate, don't you?