There is still time to make something sweet for your Valentine or for family and friends. Why not make them Chocolate Covered Strawberries or Strawberry Cheese Cake, Cake Ball style!!! These little devils are so sinful and good all rolled up in one. After I made Cake balls back at Thanksgiving, I have been dying to try out some new flavors.
I thought the strawberry cake being pink in color would be perfect for Valentines Day. I have to admit the chocolate covered ones are my favorite they really do taste like chocolate covered strawberries. I used cream cheese frosting for both of the cake balls, the chocolate coating just really took them over the top tasting just like a chocolate covered strawberry.
Using the vanilla coating made the pink ones taste like strawberry cheesecake. You really cannot go wrong with either one. Why not surprise your sweetie, they will be glad you did. These would look so pretty in a heart shaped box or tin lined with tissue paper.
Full recipe is at the end of the post.
strawberry cake mix, prepared cream cheese frosting, oil, eggs and water. (follow cake mix ingredients & directions each cake mix is different) also vanilla almond bark or candy coating, milk chocolate candy coating (pictured below) and icing color paste or candy coloring (rose) do not use food coloring. I found the icing paste at Walmart in the cake decorating supply isle in the arts and craft section.
~ Time Saver ~ At this point in the recipe, I froze the cake balls for a couple hours. I then added them to a large (gallon size) zip lock bag and placed them back in the freezer. That way I can dip them at a later date, the most time consuming part is baking and preparing the balls for dipping.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries & Strawberry Cheesecake Cake Balls
1 - (18.25 ounce) package strawberry cake mix + cake mix ingredients
1 - (16 ounce) container prepared cream cheese frosting (I use only half)
1 - 24 oz package vanilla flavored almond bark
1cing paste or candy coating paste
1cing paste or candy coating paste
sprinkles (optional)
Prepare the cake mix according to package directions using any of the recommended pan sizes.
When cake is done, crumble while warm into a large bowl, and stir in the frosting until well blended.
Melt vanilla coating in a glass bowl in the microwave on the DEFROST selection or in a metal bowl over a pan of simmering water, stirring occasionally until smooth.
Use a melon baller or small cookie scoop to form balls of the cake mixture. Dip the balls in melted candy coating using a toothpick or fork to hold them.
Place on waxed paper to set. Roll in sprinkles or leave plain. I tinted the vanilla coating pink and swirled dark pink over that.
For the chocolate covered strawberry cake balls, I dipped them in chocolate and swirled dark pink on top of that.
One recipe yields: about 36 cake balls
One recipe yields: about 36 cake balls
39 comments:
OK....I'm sold. I'm making these...I've seen them everywhere, but love the idea (and look) of the strawberry...and I cannot resist cheesecake!! :)
So so pretty! You did a great job dressing up those adorable cake balls.
These are so impressive! I love them!
Just a note that I changed my blog address: http://www.megansmunchies.com/
Oh my gosh!! Those look awesome. Great job! Send me some would ya??!!!
Good heavens those look good!
Hi Shawna, I was sold on them as well. My favorite was the chocolate.
Stephanie, my favorite part was tinting the candy coating. I never knew you could not use regular food coloring, what a mess it made. Now I know to only use icing or candy paste. It was fun decorating them.
Meg I got your address change thanks for letting me know.
Mary I wish i could send you some, but they wont last long at my house.
Melissa I visited your site, thanks for stopping by.
These look so good, I love cake balls!! Great job!
Those are prettier than anything you could buy at the store!
I can not belive I can go to my kitchen and make little pink balls that taste like strawberry cheesecake! Holy weight watchers! haha.
Those came out adorable & you're right they would look pretty sitting a in a tissue lined box! I love how you put some sort of swirl on top.
~ingrid
How adorable omgosh I am so scared to try the chocolate coating though, I have tried to melt chocolate chips before ..didnt work, I ruined 2 bags of them ROTFL I SO want to make these though :D Carm
oh that looks so yummie
Hey Carm thanks for stopping by. If you use the milk chocolate candy coating (almond bark) it is so much easier. It melts so easy and smooth, just remember to use the DEFROST setting. The blocks are 1.98 at walmart in the baking isle by the chocolate chips. It is almost no fail.
Love these cake balls. They're like truffles for kids. Or anyone who likes cake. :)
Wow, I love these, especially the pink ones!!
Maria
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These are so adorable! What a perfect treat for Valentine's Day! Great pics!
These were delicious! And they look super cute served on a platter with fresh strawberries in the mix. I made some for a friend who came for tea and ended up sending some home with her because she wanted to serve them to a friend she is having over for lunch. My kids LOVED them too. Thanks so much for the recipe!
The Grammar Police are here to tell you that there's no apostrophe in BALLS, SOUPS or SALADS. There should be an apostrophe in "COOKIN", however.
Sorry, I cook better than i am in grammer.
Great job! I love cakeballs. They are such a sweet bite ful of goodness.
I tried cake pops prior to having my blog. I think I need to give them another try. I love the Almond Bark, I buy the same kind. Thanks so much for linking up to the Valentine Party!
~Liz
I made red velvet with cream cheese coated with white chocolate and sprinkled some chopped pecans on top! It was awesome!
Sounds like a keeper to me!!!
I love these!
I have a Ladies Valentine Tea this weekend. This is perfect!! Thanks for the idea.
How did you tint the almond bark? I made some cake balls for Christmas and tried to tint the almond bark red but as soon as the food coloring hit the bark it globbed up like if I had used water.
Hi Jennifer,
I used icing paste. I think it is pictured above. I get mine at Walmart in the cake decorating isle. They have all sorts of colors. I made the same mistake you made with food coloring, but it doesn't work because it adds water to the almond bark. Use icing paste and that will solve your problem. You need just a bit to tint the bark.
Have you ever frozen the cake balls? I have done a lot of research and can't find any advice on the topic.
Sorry I am just replying to your question. I have been out of town and trying to regroup. Yes you can freeze cake balls. I make them ahead of time quite frequently. When finished dipping and decorating the cake balls I just place them in a large ziplock bag or container and place them in the freezer. I have froze them up to 3 weeks in advance.
I found this recipe on a different site about 3 years ago. I made 25,000 of these little jewels in about 7 months as fundraisers to send my oldest child on a People to People trip to Europe. The trip was $7000 and a good deal of the money was raised from these babies!
About how many little balls can one batch (one box of cake mix) make?
One batch yields about 36 cake balls. I just added it to the post to reflect.
How long do you bake these? or is that needed?
You don't bake the cake balls after they are assembled. The only baking required is to make the actual cake to turn them into cake balls. Once you add the frosting to the crumbled cake pieces you just form into balls and freeze. There is no other baking required after that point.
Tina,
I made 4 batches of the Valentine Cake Balls and have gotten rave reviews. Thank you. It is such a simple recipe.
I did have one thing...after I dipped the frozen balls some of them expanded and cracked the chocolate or some of the cake found a way out (made out like a worm). I also had more success with the vanilla than the chocolate. I don't know why. I am not complaining, just wondering if there was something else I could do to keep this from happening. Or I probably just need to keep trying. Practice makes Perfect.
I made the balls for my children's daycare staff, my people at work and for my husbands office.
I found your page by accident about a month ago and have enjoyed it. Your ideas and recipe posts have been great.
Thank you for taking your time to inform, help, inform, etc…. I cannot wait for the day I can spend more time experimenting in the kitchen and less time at work. SOon!
Thank you again, Tina. Have a great V-Day!!!
Stina :)
Made these for the snack day at work..They were a HUGE HIT! Everybody kept coming up to me, saying how good they were! I used strawberry cake, strawberry cream icing, dipped them in white chocolate, and then melted some cherry chips for the swirls...SO GOOD!
Tonight was my very first attempt at making a recipe of yours. I made both cake balls for a friend's bridal shower tomorrow. I must say......they're both DELICIOUS!! I just hope they have room in their fridge because my husband said they taste better cold. Looking forward to making MANY more of your fantastic recipes:)))))
These look delicious! I'm pretty clumsy in the kitchen too. You husband is too sweet!
I have always wanted to make these they look mouthwatering!
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