skydark | Making Christmas (Reply)

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.