It's a Boy! (part 2)

Last week, I posted about my cousin's baby shower (here). In that post, I said I would write about the cake balls I made in a later post. Well, here ya go.

Before I start, let me just say that these were a total hit. I'm amazed to know that so many people don't know that the secret to red velvet cake is food coloring, and to get blue velvet, you just change the food coloring. I was going to make cake pops, but I really didn't want to make 140 of those. So I went with pop-able balls. 

Here's the recipe (Print)

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups of self-rising flour

1 1/2 cups of sugar

3 tsp. of cocoa

1 cup of milk
1 1/2 cups of oil
1 tsp. vinegar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 (1/2 oz.) bottle of blue food coloring

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients together.
3. Add the eggs and the oil, and beat well.
4. Add all of the remaining ingredients to the mixture, and combine well.
5. Grease 3 (9 inch) pans, and pour the batter in.
6. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted.

Now for the cake ball directions.

You'll need:

3/4 can of Cream Cheese Frosting

4 bags of candy melts

cake (of course)

squeeze bottles

To make the balls, chop up your cake. It should be really chopped up (no big chunks). Then, add the frosting and mix really well. It doesn't matter if you dye the frosting blue or not. That's your choice. After you get the frosting mixed, roll one inch balls and set aside.

Melt the candy melts one bag at a time. Make sure to follow the directions on the package. If the chocolates aren't smooth enough, add a bit of shortening. You will have to do this to each of the bags of candy melts. 

Dip the cake balls into the chocolate. I started by using toothpicks, and that just didn't work. So, after a long frustrating while, I decided just to throw one cake ball in the chocolate at a time and use my rubber spatula to dig them out. Then, I used a toothpick to transport them to a cookie sheet. It worked out pretty well.

When I was finished covering all the cake balls, and they were cooled, I poured some freshly melted chocolate in my squeeze bottles, and made swirly designs on my cake balls.

These turned out wonderfully, and everyone loved the cake balls. They were all so surprised that the cake was blue. These were perfect for a boy baby shower. So when your making cake for your next baby shower, think about these. I bet they would look good in pink, too!