My daughter loved going to Starbucks, especially to get cake balls because she couldn't find them anywhere else, until I started making them.
They are so cheap and easy to make, I can make them myself and save a bundle of money compared to what we were paying for them already made.
Basically, you only need a few things. You can use any flavor or color cake, frosting, candy melts, sprinkles.
1. An un-frosted, baked cake
2. 1 can of frosting
3. Chocolate candy melts (any color/flavor will work) or chocolate chips will also work well.
4. Candy sprinkles
5. Lollipop sticks
First you take the cake and break it up with your hands in a big mixing bowl, until you have nothing but crumbs. (Make sure your cake has cooled down after baking)
Add 1 can of frosting and mix together with your hands until it has the consistency of play-doh, after it is all mixed thoroughly, just start rolling the mixture into balls using approximately 1 Tablespoon of mixture for one. If they end up looking too big or small you can adjust them to the size you want.
**Refrigerate the balls on parchment paper for at least half an hour before dipping in the chocolate, or they will fall right off of the sticks.**
The chocolate melts, I melt in a double broiler.
If you don't have a double broiler, you can melt your chocolate in the microwave but I don't do this because I tend to leave it in too long and burn it. Burnt chocolate...yuck!
Then there is also the option of putting the chocolate a bowl, setting the bowl in a skillet of simmering water on the stove, and melting the chocolate this way. Make sure that no water gets in your chocolate!
I set mine on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper after I dipped the sticks (one at a time) in the melted chocolate, I pushed them halfway through the cake balls
Quickly dip 1/4 of a stick into the chocolate and then right into a cake ball. Hold onto the stick and dip it into the chocolate, holding it sideways and rolling the stick between your fingers until the excess chocolate drips off. Put the sprinkles on, set it on your parchment paper and refrigerate if desired.
*if your chocolate is too thick and heavy, making the cake balls fall off of the sticks, add a little paraffin wax (the same wax used and found in the canning section at the store) into the chocolate.*
They are so cheap and easy to make, I can make them myself and save a bundle of money compared to what we were paying for them already made.
Basically, you only need a few things. You can use any flavor or color cake, frosting, candy melts, sprinkles.
1. An un-frosted, baked cake
2. 1 can of frosting
3. Chocolate candy melts (any color/flavor will work) or chocolate chips will also work well.
4. Candy sprinkles
5. Lollipop sticks
Add 1 can of frosting and mix together with your hands until it has the consistency of play-doh, after it is all mixed thoroughly, just start rolling the mixture into balls using approximately 1 Tablespoon of mixture for one. If they end up looking too big or small you can adjust them to the size you want.
**Refrigerate the balls on parchment paper for at least half an hour before dipping in the chocolate, or they will fall right off of the sticks.**
The chocolate melts, I melt in a double broiler.
If you don't have a double broiler, you can melt your chocolate in the microwave but I don't do this because I tend to leave it in too long and burn it. Burnt chocolate...yuck!
Then there is also the option of putting the chocolate a bowl, setting the bowl in a skillet of simmering water on the stove, and melting the chocolate this way. Make sure that no water gets in your chocolate!
I set mine on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper after I dipped the sticks (one at a time) in the melted chocolate, I pushed them halfway through the cake balls
Quickly dip 1/4 of a stick into the chocolate and then right into a cake ball. Hold onto the stick and dip it into the chocolate, holding it sideways and rolling the stick between your fingers until the excess chocolate drips off. Put the sprinkles on, set it on your parchment paper and refrigerate if desired.
*if your chocolate is too thick and heavy, making the cake balls fall off of the sticks, add a little paraffin wax (the same wax used and found in the canning section at the store) into the chocolate.*
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