About a month ago I posted about a little treat I was going to make. Well, I made them for a Windows 7 party (I'll post about that soon) Chuck was having. Well, I sort of made them. I'll start with the positives first…..
First bake a cake from a box. Check. No problem there.
Then you let it cool and crumble it into a bowl and add cream cheese frosting. Check.
Then mix it together. Check.
Then roll mixture into balls. Check. (They look like meatballs, but I promise they contain no meat.)
Put them into the freezer to get hard so they are easier to work with. Check….minus the small task of finding room in the fridge to fit this many chocolate balls.
After they have frozen for a while, start melting some white chocolate to coat the balls in. I wanted to make 4 different colors (red, blue, yellow and green) since these were for the Windows 7 Party we were having.
This is where it goes down hill.
WARNING
You cannot add water based food coloring to chocolate. It will seize up on you and turn into a sad, nasty clump of grainy, hard chocolate.
So we melted some more white chocolate thinking, we'll just coat them and decorate them with colored squeezable frosting. No problem, right? Sure. If you are a master baker maybe. To get the balls to be completely coated in chocolate you need massive amounts of chocolate. So we had a couple that were heavily coated in white chocolate. The rest….we kind of made white chocolate hats with them by only dipping part of the balls in the white chocolate.
It was messy. They are not pretty like I pictured.
But on the plus side, (because I am working on being more positive) Chuck said they tasted really good! So I guess that is a bonus.
He got some squeezable frosting and we decorated them for the party. So I decorated them with the Windows logo.
They weren't what I expected, but it's the thought that counts, right? And I did something I don't normally do…Try something new. So yay! And It wasn't the end of the world when they didn't work out. We just laughed about it and have learned a valuable lesson….”Don't try”. HAHA! Just kidding! 🙂
I actually got this idea originally from a blog I read. Here is her first post about them. And here is her second post about them. 🙂 I should have learned after reading these. But nope…I was determined to make this work. I sent her a Twitter message telling her I was going to try them.
Then sent her a message after my failed attempt.
Her reply was this.
Ha! So I think we would both agree that you should let the pros make the cake balls and cake pops. And we'll stick to simpler things…like boxed cake.
