Cake Truffles

Cake truffles are one of my favorite things to make during the holiday season!  I love them so so much, I am getting excited just thinking about them!

They are super easy to make, here are the directions:
1 box cake mix
1 can frosting
1 bag of chocolate chips
A couple of spoonfuls of butter flavored Crisco

1. First bake the cake as you normally would.
2. Let cool.
3. Crumble the cake and mix with the container of frosting
4. Place in freezer or fridge to cool.  (It is much easier to make the balls when it is cold)
5. Roll into 1 inch balls and place back in freezer until you are able to dip them in chocolate
6. Once you have all of the balls ready, melt chocolate in a bowl above simmering water.  Put one or two spoonfuls of  Crisco in with the chocolate chips.  Once all is completely melted start dipping the cold cake balls into the chocolate.  Place on a foil lined cookie sheet.  If you want to decorate the balls you need to do it while the chocolate is still warm.  It will harden quickly so if you are using sprinkles put them on right away.
It is easiest to use a spoon to dip the balls.  Just place ball on spoon  and dip, the take the spoon on the side of the bowl to get off excess chocolate then let slide off on sheet.
7. Once chocolate is set peel off and place in a closed container and store in the freeze.


There are so many variations of this recipe and I have never made any that everyone did not absolutely LOVE!  I like to decorate them according to what is inside so that I know what I am getting for example, I will use white chocolate on top if there is a yellow center, chocolate for a chocolate center. Toffee on top in there is toffee in the center.

Here are a couple of our favorites:
Yellow cake/cream cheese frosting and a milk chocolate cover or peanut butter cover
Chocolate cake/chocolate frosting with milk chocolate cover or peanut butter cover
Chocolate cake/vanilla frosting (it kind of gives it a lighter chocolate flavor) and chocolate cover
Sometimes we like to mix toffee chips into the mix too
We have done chocolate cake/chocolate frosting and a mint chocolate cover
We even once did a carrot cake/cream cheese frosting, with a white chocolate cover
Really you can't go wrong!