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.

[greenfire-mantl.livejournal.com]

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

[rileycakes.livejournal.com]

I want to live inside your kitchen.

[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.

[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

[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

[mayracs.livejournal.com]

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

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[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!

[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?

[hikaru-9.livejournal.com]

mmmmm truffles <3

[titterwings.livejournal.com]

Is dat sum red velvet cake?

NOM.

[amestris-star.livejournal.com]

OMG YUM <3

[jessibot.livejournal.com]

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

[brinylon.livejournal.com]

Ooooh glorious! Did you alsoo make some with dark 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! ^_^