I have good news and I have bad news. The bad news is that I never had time to make the vegan green bean casserole as planned. The good news is I ditched my planned dinner recipe for my cake experiment. A girl’s’ gotta have her priorities, right?
Don’t worry we still ate dinner of course. It just wasn’t blog worthy. But my cake experiment sure is.
There is so much pink in tonight’s post you will think you died and went to Candyland Heaven. Oh yes, there is such a thing and it is located in my kitchen.
The Cake Experiment: Part 3
So where were we?
Ah yes. I was freezing my balls. Well, er, you know what I mean. Thanks to a lovely tip, I moved the balls from the fridge to the freezer to get firmer.
Oh boy, this just isn’t coming out right.
For those of you who guessed that I was making decorated cake balls, you were right! I recently came across a fabulous article on cake balls. Apparently they are ‘all the rage’ in bakeries right now as well as wedding favours! Well, I just had to try it. Bakerella and all of her readers outdid themselves over Easter Break.
But first things first. It was my first time making cake balls and I admit I was a bit nervous. Ok, a lot nervous. But I thought of all of you waiting for my post, and I just dove right in. Plain and undecorated cake balls just wouldn’t be that exciting, now would it?
Directions: Take your frozen cake balls out of the freezer. Grab your candy mold tray and melted chocolate. I used dark chocolate for an antioxidant kick.
Spoon about 1 tsp or a bit more of melted chocolate into the mold. Place ball in mold being sure to ‘twist;’ the ball gently to spread the chocolate evenly on the sides of the mold:
Ta-da:
Repeat many times. I threw in a special cake bar mold for fun :)
Chill in the freezer for a few minutes. Then remove, and gently pop out from the mold. It’s that easy!
Next, dip the cake tops into melted chocolate of another colour. Decorate and have fun!
Click “continue reading” to see what I made…
Voila!
Itsy Bitsy Cutie Cupcakes:
Meet Marvin. Quite the cantankerous chap.
But oh so delicious.
And a carrot:
All boxed up and ready for delivery!
See you tomorrow morning for some fun stuff I bought on our errand trip today! I will also be decorating more cake balls! You didn’t think I was done already did you? :)
I’m off to clean up a HUGE mess in the kitchen and then Eric and I are hitting the town.
Have a lovely night!
Is it sad that as soon as you crumbled the cake, I knew you were making the famous cake balls! I would never have thought to put a healthy spin on it, though. SO creative! I’m impressed :-)
Wow, those cupcakes are ADORABLE, what a great idea.
Marvin looks really irritated that you took a chomp out of his head!
Oh my goodness! Those are so cute! Itsy bitsy spider cupcakes! Nice idea!
Oh wow, Angela, everything looks amazing!! I’m obsessed with the pink icing and sprinkles! So cute ;)
Oh yum!
Very well done! You go girl!
Oh I love those – they rock! You have inspired me to try making some. I have wanted to ever since I saw Pioneer Woman and Bakerella do them. Now I will :-)
Love the Banana Hat!
Yummy!!!
Those are super cute!
so gosh darn adorable OH MY GOODNESS. At first I saw the banana cake balls in the chocolate, and I was like hmmmmm but then you made them SO PRETTY with the frosting. I esp like the carrot topped ones! beautttttttttttiful Angela! be proud of yourself. I bet the lolly ones would sell really well with cute cellophane packaging!! :)
Those are AMAZING! I love them.
Three thumbs Up!
so cute! you’re a baking goddess :D
WOW those are incredible!! if i saw them in a shop i would willingly empty my wallet for them, even if it meant i had to make meals out of them. but they do look even too good to eat… you have lots of talent!
I’ve never even heard of cake balls before! They look/sound delicious! (not to mention, super cute)
Too cute! They look yummy!
What did you and Eric do on the town? Hit up the clubs? :)
OHMYOHMYOHMY!!!!! I love Marvin – he looks delicious ;-)
Fabulous idea! I love those! :)
I completely love those! I have always thought cakeballs were the cutest things ever. They look beyond delicious. I really want to try them!