When my in-laws came over for dinner the other night, me and my SIL were in charge of dessert. And boy did we deliver. We made three, count it, THREE types of cake balls! And they were all AMAZING if I do say so myself!
It was messy and took all afternoon because we made so many, but it really doesn't take long to make just one batch. If you have never made or had these before you are seriously missing out!
Technically we made two kinds of cake balls, and one kind of cookie balls, but the process is the same so I will break it down for you.
Step 1. Bake your cake per the directions on the box. We chose yellow butter cake and red velvet. For the cookie balls, take half the batch and crush in a bowl. We chose Oreos.
Step 2. Once the cake is baked and cooled, crumble the entire cake into a bowl and mix with one can of frosting. I always make my frosting from scratch, but because this ingredient wasn't the main attraction and we were making so much, I opted for the quicker version. For the Oreo cookie balls, mix one 8 oz. tub of cream cheese. The best way to do this is just get down and dirty and use your hands. Yes it is messy, but hey, you get to lick it off after!
Don't stress if you spill crumbs on the floor. That's what dogs are for!
Step 3. Cool. For as long as possible!
Step 4. Melt chocolate chips until the chocolate is super runny. We chose milk chocolate for the butter cake balls, and white chocolate for the red velvet and Oreo balls. Roll cake/frosting mixture into approx. 1" balls and dunk into the bowl of melted chocolate with a spoon (or your fingers). Swirl it around until it's completely covered and remove. Place coated balls on a pan with wax paper.
Redrum...redrum...!
The Shining, anyone?
Almost done....!
Step 5. Cool again until they are C-O-L-D.
Step 6. Try not the eat them all!
Batter + frosting + melted chocolate = sugar overload...but so worth it!
