Strawberry Cake Balls

So there’s this recipe on allrecipes.com that has been nagging me ever since I became a member. It’s been saying, “Dianne, come on, make me, I know you want to……” It looks really tedious and time consuming, but it also looks really fun and delicious. It’s Cake Balls.

The other reason I haven’t made the Cake Balls was that I was waiting for the right occasion. My niece’s 2nd birthday party seemed like a good time to try them out. I decided to make strawberry cake balls, because they are pink and I like pink because I’m a girl. The pink was also very appropriate for a little girl’s birthday party.

Then came the hard part, the dipping. I dipped half of them in semi-sweet chocolate and half in vanilla almond bark. I just melted the chocolate and bark in the microwave. I found what worked best was placing the ball in the melted chocolate, using a spoon to cover the ball with the chocolate, then lifting it up with a fork, and scraping the excess chocolate off the bottom with a spoon. I then used the spoon to push the ball onto waxed paper and to smooth out the chocolate if needed. To make the pink drizzle, I simply melted vanilla almond bark, added red food color and squeezed from a baggie with the corner snipped off.

I really surprised myself at how beautiful they turned out. Maybe it was the practice from those other two recipes I made? I don’t know, but it wasn’t as hard as I remember. I think I might make these again. Gasp! The creative juices are already flowing with what other flavor and color combinations I can make. I hope the dipping part will only get easier from here on out!