Surprise! Chocolate Cake Balls!

After seeing all the cute creations Bakerella comes up with my sis and I decided to try it out for ourselves.

Ooooh What's inside?

Chocolates! I mean Chocolate Cakes!

Let's take a closer look

I don't know how Bakerella does this, but she is amazing. There were a few problems when we did this, but it was our first time. One of the problems was getting the chocolate to go on smoothly.

We decided to go with a red velvet cake. Now, we have never made red velvet cake and we couldn't find a cake mix for it I found this online http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes.aspx/easy-red-velvet-cake

To make the red velvet cake you'll need:

• 1 box Betty Crocker Super Moist German Cake Mix (ingredients on box)
  
• 1 bottle (1 oz) red food coloring
• 1 tbsp of unsweetened baking cocoa

For the frosting we used this recipe I got from Bakerella.

• 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 (1-pound) box confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

I didn't fully use a whole box of confectioners' sugar so I just taste tested the frosting as I went along.

Bake the cake and let cool. When it cooled we crumpled it in to small pieces into a food processor. Then, make the frosting and mix together. Finally roll Roll ROLL! Then we let it sit in the freezer for about 10 mins or fridge for as long as we could.

Up to now everything was going smoothly. Now we needed to dip the cake balls in chocolate. We couldn't find chocolate bark at the market, so we just bought the big bag of milk chocolate chips. I don't know what the difference of bark is from the chips but we couldn't get the chocolates perfectly smooth. Then there was the problem of the chocolate hardening too fast. We didn't melt the whole bag of chocolates at once, but it was a night of running back and forth to the microwave, refrigerator, and table. Then, we ran out of chocolate so we ran out to buy more. This time we bought semi-sweet because the milk chocolate was tooo sweet for us. Another problem we had was the balls would start to soften so we needed to stick them back in the freezer. But looking at the cuteness now makes it all worth it.

Just dipped balls. We sprinkled coconut and roasted almonds to hide the mess underneath.
Blurry pic but I wanted to show the red cake inside. It turned out to be very delicious, especially the semi-sweet ones.

THANKS BAKERELLA!
check out her site at
bakerella.com