Cake Truffles and Cake Pops

Whether you call these cake truffles, bon bons, bites, or balls, the one thing I know for sure is you will love them! These cute, irresistible chocolate covered treats hardly need a recipe. Bake a cake, crumble it up, mix with frosting, roll into balls, dip in chocolate. Pop in mouth. Repeat.

One thing I never thought I would do is to post a recipe using a box cake…and a tub of ready made frosting. While I don’t doubt that using a home-made cake would make these even better – there is a time issue. Besides baking the cake and waiting for it to cool you also have to chill the ‘balls’ before dipping. And it’s ideal if you can chill them overnight before eating. From my experience they taste better that way, and even better on the third day. If you do decide to bake the cake and make frosting from scratch beware that the wrong ratio of cake to frosting can make the insides mushy instead of cakey. You don’t want that.

I had a bit of an issue with my chocolate and was not entirely happy with the way these turned out – appearance wise. I think I made them too big which in turn made them harder to dip. I don’t like using the recommended chocolate bark or candy melts because I find the quality of the chocolate isn’t good – it tastes awful. I’m game for any good quality chocolate recommendations (that melts well) you might have.

I would love to experiment more with different flavor combinations of cake, frosting and chocolate. Like strawberry cake with cream cheese frosting dipped in dark chocolate. Or carrot cake and cream cheese frosting dipped in white chocolate. What flavor would you make?

You can find lollipop sticks at your local crafts store in the candy-making department.

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