Mmmm, cake balls!

Yup, you heard right! Cake balls! I came across cake balls a few weeks ago on this blog. Bakerella is absolutely amazing! Check out how talented she is! I wish I had half of her talent when it comes to baking (and photography)!

Anyway, the cake balls sounded absolutely mouth watering, and last night I had some time, so I devoted it to cake balls (actually, I should've been doing homework)! I made Easter cake balls. The recipe calls for boxed Red Velvet Cake, but I decided to make them with a Chocolate Cake from scratch. I got the Chocolate Cake recipe from the instruction booklet that came with the KitchenAid stand mixer that Kurtis gave me for Christmas. It was good! It took a lot of willpower to keep myself from eating all the batter! Well, here is the recipe for the cake balls and below is the recipe for the Chocolate Cake.

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/3 cups sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup low-fat milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 squares (1 oz each) unsweetened chocolate, melted

Combine dry ingredients in mixer bowl. Add shortening, milk, and vanilla. Attach bowl and flat beater to mixer. Turn to Speed 2 (low speed for you non-KitchenAid mixer owners) and mix for about 1 minute. Stop and scrape bowl. Add eggs and chocolate. Continuing on Speed 2, mix about 30 seconds. Stop and scrape bowl. Turn to Speed 6 (medium speed) and beat about 1 minute.

Pour batter into two greased and floured 8- or 9-inch round baking pans (I used a 9x13x2 cake pan). Bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pans. Cool completely on wire rack. Frost if desired.


As you can see I got a little carried away when I was drizzling the left over bark on the balls! :)






"A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked." ~ Delia Smith