So I made ‘em, I really really did.  Cake Balls. Say that four times in row and try not to bust a gut laughing. Actually just saying cake balls makes me laugh hysterically.  I decided to make Red Velvet Cake Balls and although I made my own red velvet, I followed Bakerella‘s instructions on how exactly to get cake into a ball and looking delicious.

Step One: Bake your cake & let it cool completely!

Step Two: Make your frosting (or buy it)

Step Three: Crumble the cake and add in the frosting

Step Four: Mush, Mush, Mush – mix the frosting and cake crumbs into one massive lump (yes, lump) of goopy cake-dough

Step Five: Roll into lil balls

(I stuck toothpicks in mine cuz, well as you’ll learn soon enough I had a chocolate fail and this made it easier to dip the balls into chocolate).

Step Six: Freeze-Your-Balls! Don’t refrigerate them, don’t just leave them out, freeze them, overnight. Why? When you go to dip these balls into chocolate basically if they aren’t cold enough the cake will crumble (sad face).

Step Seven: Melt the chocolate of your choice. I choose milk chocolate and had a little white chocolate on hand for drizzling… but if when I make these again (yes, I will do this again!) for the red velvet I’d cover them in white chocolate with a milk chocolate drizzle.

Now, me and chocolate didn’t quit get along. Who knew melting chocolate was difficult? OK, it’s not, you just have to pay attention, heat slowly, and stir, stir, stir. I did none of the above and ended up burning a batch of chocolate. The second time around I was too impatient and didn’t want the chocolate to burn, so I dipped the balls before the chocolate was ready – leaving me with a gross, globby mess.

Step Eight: Dip-Your-Balls …. in chocolate!  I used toothpicks to help with the dipping but if you have something fancier, use that.  Be sure to dip, tap off the excess chocolate and then let the dipped cake balls cool on parchment paper.

Step Nine: ENJOY  (and share, cuz one batch makes like 50 million balls…just saying…)