Cake Balls
Hi All,
I made cake balls from all the extra white cake I had from several cakes last week and I'm getting rave reviews from my co`workers and I took them to a shower and people are loving them. Try them if you have not done so. The dipping in Chocolate is time consuming but worth the smiles that people get after biting into one.
Tracy
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Permalink Reply by Meghan on
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Ha ha not after 140 of them, lol. I love cake balls and so does everyone I know. I had a big cake ball order last weekend.
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Permalink Reply by Karen Marie on
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I love them too...it helps to put lollipop sticks in them and the dipping goes fast and looks professional...just dont wipe too much off the bottom...make them in any flavor...last ones I made were a yellow cake mixed with Swiss buttercream and coated with cherry flavored chocolate... omg tasted almost like the real thing.. would have been better if I wrapped a cherry with the cake filling!
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Yes i actually did pops and made bouquets out of them, I did cherry cake in pink chocolate, and other flavours mmmmm
Karen Marie said:I love them too...it helps to put lollipop sticks in them and the dipping goes fast and looks professional...just dont wipe too much off the bottom...make them in any flavor...last ones I made were a yellow cake mixed with Swiss buttercream and coated with cherry flavored chocolate... omg tasted almost like the real thing.. would have been better if I wrapped a cherry with the cake filling!
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Permalink Reply by Tracy P. on
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I'm going to try the lollipop sticks. They were awesome! Love the flavor ideas.
Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Ponder on
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I enjoy cake balls also. When I worked outside the house, my coworkers loved it when I brought in cake balls. I so want to get the melting pot, to make it much eaiser. The whole thing about melting 3 bars at a time to do a dozen just takes soo long, lol. right now i have dozens of cakeballs sitting in the freezer waiting to be coated. I also have 2 9x13 cake pans full of cake tops I am going to make into cake balls & take to a dessert party.
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Jennifer if you dont have the chocolate pot you can put chocolate in a double boiler over boiled hot water with the heat off. Or place a heatproof bowl over a very wet towel placed in an electric fry pan on the lowest setting....just barely turned on...that will keep the chocolate melted. It would be better to use candy melts so you dont have to worry about tempering...dark chocolate tastes best IMHO.
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Permalink Reply by Windy Jimenez on
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Tell me about it! I did the same with mine and they thought I had spent hours and hours on my " Cake Truffles"!
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Permalink Reply by lisa yanoschak on
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i've never tried to make them and would love to know how to by the professionals here.....any suggestions?
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Lisa cake balls are the easiest thing...just gather some cake scraps or a day old cake, about 8 cups. Break up the cake and put into a workbowl of your mixer. Turn on low and break up the cake a bit more. Add a cup of buttercream at a time until it makes a very thick paste. You can add flavorings, a little chocolate etc. to the mixture. Shape into 1" balls and stick lollipop sticks all the way to the bottom of the cake ball. Refrigerate until firm about an hour. Dip in melted chocolate, tapping gently to remove excess chocolate. Place on parchment and refrigerate until firm. IMHO I think they taste best cold.
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thanks karen, i'll try this tomorrow!
Karen Marie said:Lisa cake balls are the easiest thing...just gather some cake scraps or a day old cake, about 8 cups. Break up the cake and put into a workbowl of your mixer. Turn on low and break up the cake a bit more. Add a cup of buttercream at a time until it makes a very thick paste. You can add flavorings, a little chocolate etc. to the mixture. Shape into 1" balls and stick lollipop sticks all the way to the bottom of the cake ball. Refrigerate until firm about an hour. Dip in melted chocolate, tapping gently to remove excess chocolate. Place on parchment and refrigerate until firm. IMHO I think they taste best cold.
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Just made some last night to box and give as a Father's Day gift to my husband and son's Godfather!
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Karen, thank you for the instructions on how to do it without a melting pot. However I did break down & buy me one, worked pretty good. I used the 'almond bark' chocolate in it. I did melt it a little in the microwave first, I was pressed for time & wasnt sure how long it would take the melting pot to melt 6 blocks. I did buy a big bag of chocolate disks, but didnt know if those would give me the same crisp coating as the almond bark. No time to experiment. lol The craft/dessert party was for the kids to be able to make father day crafts, but it was also a dessert contest & can you believe my cake balls won. pretty cool. There was only 5 desserts, heath cookies, fruit cake, some kind of coconut pudding, my cake balls & a chocolate drizzle cheese cake.
Karen Marie said:Jennifer if you dont have the chocolate pot you can put chocolate in a double boiler over boiled hot water with the heat off. Or place a heatproof bowl over a very wet towel placed in an electric fry pan on the lowest setting....just barely turned on...that will keep the chocolate melted. It would be better to use candy melts so you dont have to worry about tempering...dark chocolate tastes best IMHO.
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