Cake Balls

If you are hungry for something easy and delicious... cake balls are your answer (at least they are my answer).

They also make good party/shower food.

I (with Aunt Debbie's help) made these for Macie's baby shower. They were part of my guest "Thank you's".

Recipe...

Box cake mixed (any flavor) - cooked according to directions

can of icing (any flavor)

almond bark (chocolate or vanilla)

Bake a cake according to the box.

When cake is done and it has cooled enough so that you can touch it (don't let it cool completely), crumble the cake up into a pan.

Add a can of cake icing to the crumbled up cake. Mix it up.

Take a melon ball scooper or use your hands and make little 1 inch balls out of the mixture. Put them on a cookie sheet, cover, and refrigerate for about 2 hours (this is the key to them staying together).

Melt the a couple of blocks of the almond bark. I melted it in the microwave in a measuring cup, then put the measuring cup in a pan of warm water on the stove (this helped it stay melted). If your almond bark is too thick (mine was) add about 1 teaspoon of vegetable or canola oil to the bark.

Using a slotted spoon and a regular spoon... spoon the melted almond bark over a cake ball. Place on a cookie sheet, covered with parchment paper. I took some extra icing, put some pink food coloring in it and wrote "M" on each cake ball.

** You can do any combination of cake/icing flavors. These are the ones I used:

Chocolate cake with German Chocolate icing

Vanilla cake with butter cream icing

Strawberry cake with strawberry icing

Just so you don't think I am overly creative, I got the idea for cake balls from Kelly of Kelly's Corner Blog www.kellyscorner.blogspot.com. Go to her recipe section.