Cake Truffle Tutorial

  I've been on a personal mission to change the way people talk about one of my favorite cake offerings :)!  I've heard them called cake pops, cake bites and the most revolting--cake BALLS!!  I know I'm fighting a losing battles but here is my tutorial for cake truffles:

You will need a baked cake and candy melts--honest that's it!

The first step is to throw crumbled up, already baked cake into the mixer bowl. 

I use the cake top that I cut off of the cakes that I decorate when I level them.  If you start with a very moist cake there will be no need to add any frosting or liquid to the cake itself.  If you want to add different flavors or frosting, now is the time to throw it in the mixer bowl--this is a totally personal preference step-if you add too much extra frosting or liquid flavoring, your cake truffles will end up with a soggy texture. 

At any rate, you mix up the cake top until it forms into a cookie dough type of texture.

It may feel like you have mixed the cake crumbles together forever, but eventually it really will form this cookie dough texture.

Use a cookie scoop to scoop out equal amounts of cookie dough.  Then roll them into nice smooth balls, err I mean truffles!!!

Place on a cookie sheet and place in the freezer for about 30 minutes--Yowza, I think I need to defrost my freezer!!  

While the cake balls, dang it I mean cake truffles,  are in the freezer, place candy melts in a glass bowl and melt in the microwave, following package directions.

Remove cake truffles from the freezer, put a toothpick in each one, and dip in the melted chocolate.  You can also just roll them in the chocolate, but I've found that this method works best for me.

Remove from chocolate and place on parchment-covered cookie sheet.

Remove toothpicks and add a dollop of melted chocolate to cover the little spot on top.

To add that little dollop on top, I place melted chocolate into a bottle and just squeeze a blob on top of each cake truffle.  You can also just use a spoon for this step.

OK, so I forgot to take a picture of me placing the dollop on the white cake truffles, but hopefully this will give you a lovely dark chocolatey idea!  You may also want to make a note of what kind of cake is inside the truffle at this time if you're making more than one flavor--kind of hard to tell after that dollop is on top.........believe me!!!!

Allow the cake truffles to set up (about an hour or so).  Then eat them up, YUM!!

You can use all sorts of flavor combinations between the different chocolates and any kind of cake flavor you can imagine.  Delicious and easy!

You can even monogram them if you're feeling ambitious!  I just used buttercream for these monograms.  You can also drizzle with different colors of melted chocolate and add sprinkles or nuts before the chocolate sets up.

Cake TRUFFLES people!!!!! Enjoy!!