Making Christmas

[skydark]

Making cake truffles requires a whole lotta cake



I saw someone talking about making truffles out of scraps of cake and decided to give it a go. Since I did not have any cake scraps, I baked a few.


Red Velvet, Devil's Food, White


Then I crumbled them up


Then I mixed in about 2 tablespoons of frosting and shaped them into balls. This is one layer, you need to use about 2 tablespoons of frosting per layer. They worked better doing one layer at a time.


Then I melted chocolate to roll them in



End results: Oh so tasty. (pardon blurry pics!)

1 9-inch, two layer cake yields about 50 truffles.

Then we decided to make cocoa!


I decided not to use ground cinnamon and just use ground caradmon


Be prepared for a big, huge mess.


End results!

Bottom layer is: 2 cups powdered sugar sifted with 2 teaspoons of vanilla baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of pepper
Middle layer is: 2 cups of dutch processed cocoa
Top Layer is: 2 cups of powdered sugar sifted with 1 teaspoon ground cardamon

When you give them as gifts, give a little tag that says: Sift ENTIRE contents of container together, then return to container. 1/4 cup cocoa mix to 1 cup hot milk!

The jars are 1.6 quart jars.



Check out my friend Laura's awesome Grinch t-shirt.

Enjoy <333 Merry Christmas!

Comments

[flashily.livejournal.com]

Those look delicious and like so much fun to make.

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

They are a lot of fun to make! once you get the frosting incoprorated it's like playdough XD

[greenfire-mantl.livejournal.com]

gah wants to eat the white chocolate covered one *noms :3 *

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

come on down, I'll give you some! <3

[rileycakes.livejournal.com]

I want to live inside your kitchen.

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

LOL, it's not very big, you'll have to sleep on the floor XD

[sexkitten426.livejournal.com]

Those look quite tasty; I'll have to attempt those sometime! If you're interested, my go-to recipe for truffles is one part hot cream to 2 parts chocolate chips, let cool, shape into balls & roll in cocoa powder.

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds good! The chocolate stays pliable? I will have to try that sometime!

[cherokee1.livejournal.com]

Red cake.
Rrrrrrred cake.
I'd forgotten about red velvet cake and its eye searing redness.
I can eat a whole half of one of those with the white frosting.
Those truffles look sinful.
C

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

They are pretty darn good! <333

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i never would've thought to add cardamom to hot chocolate. yum! you can send me hot chocolate mix any time. :D

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

OK! \o/ <3

[mayracs.livejournal.com]

wow so much work for the delicious balls of chocolate love XDD Awesome job on them! they look soooo good :D~

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

They are good, easy to make, you should try it! <333

[mayracs.livejournal.com]

wait a min. did you say you put pepper in your hot coco mix? O.o?

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

I most certainly did,if you drink 'spicy' cocoa mixes, you are drinking pepper XD

[mayracs.livejournal.com]

wow, i did not know that @_@ weird. I always though that it was cinnimon or chilly pepper XD

!

[babykoalabear.livejournal.com]

mmm cakeballs! I made them for a bakesale once, and about half of them did not make it that far. :) looks delicious!

Re: !

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

They are very yum! <333 I can see why they didn't stick around long!

[http://users.livejournal.com/zakai_/]

Those look great! I've got to try them! :D

Does it matter what kind of frosting you mix in with the crumbled cake?

Also the hot chocolate mix is awesome. I might try that for gifts next year :)

Merry Christmas! <3

Also, I just made your cherry bon bon cookies today! I love that recipe to death.

Edit: Also, is that white chocolate around the dark cake balls?

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

You should try them!

I used cream cheese frosting in the red velvet and chocolate cake and chocolate fudge frosting in the white cake!

And yes, that is white almond bark on the chocolate cake balls, if you use it, you need about twice as much of it as the chocolate bark!

I am glad you made those, I love them! <333

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

Also, when putting in the frosting, forget that 'mixing' stuff I said XD Prepare to have goopy hands, you really need to get your hands in and mush the cake and frosting together!

[hikaru-9.livejournal.com]

mmmmm truffles <3

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

<333333333

[titterwings.livejournal.com]

Is dat sum red velvet cake?

NOM.

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

it is sum red velvet cake! NOM! <3

[amestris-star.livejournal.com]

OMG YUM <3

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

They are so very yum! <3

[jessibot.livejournal.com]

*drools* You make the most delicious looking stuff...

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

Thanks! <3333

[brinylon.livejournal.com]

Ooooh glorious! Did you alsoo make some with dark chocolate?

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

No, they didn't have any dark melting chocolate, so they were all made with milk chocolate!

[shipperamy.livejournal.com]

You have turned me into such a baker since you posted your basic cake mix cookie recipe like a year ago! To the point that I bring desserts to all family get-togethers now, I gave cookies as gifts this year, and my philosophy has become "Meh, why buy cookies when I can make better ones myself?" XD

I'm so making the cake balls truffles! ^_^

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

YAY! I'm glad you bake! I'm entirely a novice at baking myself but I like to share what works <333 The cake truffles are wonderful, you'll love them! <3