Cake Balls Recipe

How to make it

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• Just prepare the cake according to the package directions, and bake it in a 9 x 13-inch pan. Cover the cake with a dish towel and allow to cool completely. Usually, I’ll bake the cake the night before and leave it covered on the counter ’til I need it.
• When you’re ready to make the CAKE BALLS, begin gently crumbling the cake. I place sections of the cake into a large bowl, 1/4 of the cake at a time.I use two forks and just gradually pull the cake apart.When you’re finished, you should have a bunch of very fine cake crumbs.
• And NOW…for the highly gourmet binding ingredient: Prepared, store-bought icing!The standard recipe calls for a whole container of icing, but I almost always use about 3/4 of the container. It’s entirely up to you—if you use the whole container, the CAKE BALLS will be extremely moist and sometimes slightly on the mushy side. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I tend to like the cake balls just slightly less moist.Use two forks to work the icing into the cake (or the cake into the icing; it’s all how you look at it.)Keep at it, gently working the mixture together…until the icing is no longer visible.
• The next thing you want to do is roll the mixture into balls—I usually make them about walnut size. HINT: If you have a small cookie dough scoop, it makes it really nice. I just scoop the mixture, dispense it into my hand, then hand roll it from there.
• Next, pop ‘em in the freezer, uncovered, for at least an hour. You’ll want the cake balls to be very firm before coating them. ( i put mine in overnight)
• When the cake balls are nice and firm, go ahead and prepare your double boiler.Next, grab whatever color of melting chocolate you want. They sell these bags at Michael’s or Hobby Lobby for two bucks, and they come in lots of different colors.You can also add food coloring to plain, white almond bark from the grocery store…but gel or powdered food coloring works better than the liquid stuff.Dump the pieces into the bowl of the double boiler.Stir occasionally until the candy is melted and smooth.
• Now its time to ice the cake balls....i dipped each cake ball into the chocolate individually with a spoon.....make sure to evenly coat the entire cake ball. Then transfer to a baking sheet that has been covered with wax paper, and sprinkle with your favorite toppings or icing and enjoy : )