Cake Balls

This year I decided I wanted to make cake balls for my in-laws and our family friends. I spent all of Saturday baking. Cake balls were much harder than I had anticipated. They looked and tasted great though!

Here's how I made them:

1 box of cake batter of your choice (I used vanilla and tinted it red with food colouring)
1 can of icing of your choice (I used french vanilla and tinted it red as well)
3 boxes of semi sweet baking chocolate
1 box of white baking chocolate (tinted red)

Bake bake according to package. Let cool for 10 minutes. crumble the cake and mix in 3/4 of the contents of the can of frosting. Mix until combined. Wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour. Line 2 cookie trays with parchment paper. Make small balls using a melon ball scoop. refrigerate for another hour. Melt semi sweet chocolate in a double boiler. Insert a skewer into the cake ball and dip into chocolate**. Place them on the tray and refrigerate until set, About 30 minutes. Once they are set, melt white chocolate in a double boiler and tint whatever colour you would like. You can also just ass sprinkles top the freshly dipped balls if you would like. Let the cake balls set in the fridge for 30 minutes.

**If you have a hard time dipping the cake balls in the chocolate (like I did near the end) You can add the chocolate to a piping bag and cut a hole and top the cake balls that way. No one will notice that you didn't dip them. Once they are set, you can dip the bottoms into chocolate.

I bought little tins and put tissue paper down and then put all the cake balls into cupcake cups and put them in the tin. They look like little chocolates.

They last in the fridge for 3 days. They can be frozen as well.

Enjoy!