I made red velvet cake pops/balls to take to the family Christmas get-togethers this year. I used cream cheese icing with the red velvet cake. The balls dunked in milk chocolate were made into reindeer using buttercream icing details. The rest of the balls were dunked in white chocolate. They turned out really cute and yummy! They are really easy to make and really delicious. You can make them with any flavor of cake and icing that you like.
Cake Ball Recipe
***Instructions for making reindeer pops included***
Ingredients: 1 cake mix (boxed or from scratch) and 1 cup icing
Bake your cake as directed on boxed cake mix or follow your recipe for a cake. I usually do mine in a 9x13 cake pan. Allow cake to cool.
Crumble cake until there are no chunks of cake. Mix in icing a tablespoon at a time until cake mix is able to easily stick together when rolled into a ball. It usually takes about 1/2 a can of icing if I am running in a hurry and need to use canned icing.
Roll cake/icing mixture into desired size of balls. Place on cookie sheet and put into the refrigerator.
Once the cake balls are firm you can melt your chocolate (milk or white). Dip cake ball into chocolate and allow to dry. This usually makes a good many balls, but it wouldn't be hard to do several batches at once if you needed more.
***To make reindeer: Once your chocolate has dried, you can use buttercream icing to make your eyes, nose, and mouth. I stuck them back into the refrigerator to allow the buttercream to crust slightly. If you want to place the cake balls on lollipop sticks you will need to do this when you are first forming the balls and placing them in the refrigerator.
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