Scrumptious Wednesday: Homemade Cake balls {Recipe}

I have been wanting to make homemade cake balls for a long time

but I haven't had a good opportunity to. 

It ended up being the perfect treat for Superbowl Sunday

and I even decorated mine to look like footballs.

To make this recipe even easier, you can use a cake box and store bought frosting

but I like to go homemade...

I found this fabulous recipe on pinterest for Chocolate cake:

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups sugar

¾ cup cocoa

2 teaspoons baking powder

1½ teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

½ cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup boiling water

Directions:

pre heat oven to 350 degrees

1. Add flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt and espresso powder to a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Whisk through to combine or, using your paddle attachment, stir through flour mixture until combined well.
2. Add milk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla to flour mixture and mix together on medium speed until well combined. Reduce speed and carefully add boiling water to the cake batter. Beat on high speed for about 1 minute to add air to the batter.
3. Pour cake batter into a 9x13 pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.

After the cake cools for about 15 minutes, crumble the cake with your hands.

I made a simple buttercream frosting:

 (but you can use whatever sounds good to you)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup softened butter

2 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup milk

Pour all of the ingredients into a bowl and whip them. 

Combine the cake crumbles and the frosting in a big bowl

warning- this gets really messy!

Grab a chunk of the cake/frosting mix and roll it into a ball. 

Make sure to roll them really tight and compact. 

My recipe yielded about 40 cake balls. 

I used a whole package of milk chocolate chips for the outer chocolate shell. 

We are old fashioned and don't have a microwave. 

If you are melting on the stove, you can boil water and put the chocolate chips in a glass bowl. 

Stir in a little bit of vegetable oil with the chocolate in order to make it a little thinner. 

Insert a toothpick into each ball before submerging it in the melted chocolate. 

Make sure to tap the excess chocolate back into the bowl.

You can decorate them however you would like. 

I used melted white chocolate to make the threads of a football. 

yummmmmmmy. 

Enjoy!

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