Cake Balls

Warning: this is time intensive so be prepared!

What you need: 1 box of Dunkin Hines Cake mix (and the necessary ingredients on the back of the box), 1 can of Duncan Hines icing, 2.5 bags of chocolate chips, two spoonfuls of Crisco, wax paper

Tip: You can use different cake/icing/chocolate combinations. For examples, chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate chips, pumpkin cake with cream cheese icing and white chocolate chips, strawberry cake with vanilla icing and white chocolate chips. Feel free to be creative, however, dark chocolate chips are a little overpowering so I would stay away from that.

Bake the cake according to the directions on the back of the box. When it is done, let it cool for about 20 minutes (it helps to cut into the cake in a few places, it releases the heat a little faster).

Once the cake has cooled, crumble the cake into a big bowl and add two and a half heaping spoonfuls of icing to the cake. Mix the cake and icing together (it is easiest to use your hands) and then put it in the freezer for about 20 minutes. Putting the cake/icing mixture in the freezer helps the concoction solidify, therefore making it easier to form small balls and dip them in chocolate.

In the mean time, melt the chocolate chips that you will dip the cake balls in. Put two and half bags of chocolate chips in a glass bowl (something about the glass bowl helps, chocolate is very temperamental so do not rush). Add two spoonfuls of Crisco to the chocolate chips and heat it in the microwave for one minute. Stir the chips and Crisco and then reheat for 15 seconds, then stir and reheat for 15 seconds, stir and reheat for 15 seconds. You get the idea, slowly melt the chips and make sure you are always stirring. If you are not careful, you will overheat the chocolate and it will dry out.

When the 20 minutes is up, pull the cake out of the freezer and begin forming small “cake balls” with your hands. The balls do not need to be very big – one cake can make anywhere from 50-75 cake balls depending on how big you make them (I made about 75 cake balls with the batch you had, just to give you an idea of how big the little cakes need to be).

Make a few balls, then dip them in the chocolate and lay them out on wax paper to dry. This seems tricky at first but you get the hang of it quickly.

The cake balls stay yummy for about a week (I made the batch you had on Sunday and you ate them on Thursday – they were still moist because of the icing in the cake)! Enjoy.

(From: Jordan Keene)

One night when Jordan and Kevin were babysitting Katelyn, she had made these for a party the next evening and they looked so good. I made some and took them to the Real Life Bible Fellowship party this year.