I have looked high and low for this recipe that I know someone posted. I can't seem to find it here or at the wilton site. Anyone know what the recipe is for cake balls? (using the filet's from cakes?) Thanks!

Really not a recipe. Take left over cake scrapes or use the whole cake, add your flavor icing just enough to moisten, and roll into desired size balls.

I dipped mine in wilton chocolate, and peanut butter candy coats.
I have added nuts to my candy and dipped them in it.
I have put caramel in the middle and dipped in chocolate.

You can get creative with them.

Here is the recipe that was the first I saw here on CC. You have a lot of freedom to change it the way you want but this gives you a basic guideline. This is copied from another post.

Here is a basic receipe for cake balls, athough there are MANY different combinations out there:

Here is Cookieman's recipe...


2 cups crumbled cake scraps
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa powder (if cake scraps are not chocolate based)
1/4 cup chopped almonnds (or any other nut you like, or mini-chocolate chips, or M&Ms, you get the idea!)
2 generous shots of amaretto (or any other liquer you may like, a good non-alcohol substitution is any flavored coffee creamer)

Put all ingredients in a mixer and mix on medium speed until the ingedients form a ball. If the mixture seems too dry, add a bit more of the liquid used to make it moist enough to form into balls.

I use a tablespoon cookie scoop to make the balls uniform in size. Roll the scooped dough in your hands to form a nice smooth ball. Allow cake balls to set on a parchment lined cookie sheet for a couple of hours, then dip them in chocolate(following) or roll them in confectioners' sugar or cocoa.

Melt 1 lb. of candy melts and add approximately a tablespoons of crisco to make it a bit more smooth. Also, put the container (in my case, a pyrex measuring cup) of melted candy melts in a very hot (I use amost boiling) water bath to keep the chocolate fluid. dip balls into the chocolate using a spoon and a dipping fork (in my case, a plastic fork with the two middle tines cut out) Don't worry if the dipped balls have a "foot" at the base after drying. You can break some off after they have hardened and once they are in the little cake liners, no one will notice. Also, you can decorate the tops with just about anything, sprinkles, candy confetti, chopped nuts, etc. before they dry. Or after they've dried, pipe designs with royal icing or melted candy melts of differnet colors!

Boy,

These have gotton really fancy since the idea came on here before thanksgiving last year.

Thank you! I've been going nuts trying to find a recipe. I knew it was something simple, but was not sure exactly "what" to add to the cake tops to make them moist into balls.

I used this recipe the other day on some leftover devils food cake and OMG!!! I added vanilla caramel flavored coffee creamer instead of the amaretto (only need one shot of this stuff) and when they were done, I could NOT bring myself to cover them in anything...they were already too good. Mmmmmm.....

Here are a few tips.. I use the coffee syrups found at walmart.. I have used hazlenut and vanilla.. Also if you dont have chocolate melts.. You can use chocolate chips.. 1 cup of chips and 1 tablespoon of shortening.. works just great!!!!

Thanks for all the input everyone. I plan on trying to make my first batch tomorrow night. I'm baking the cake tonight, and it's a really basic one, so I should have it decorated tomorrow morning despite kidlets running wild in the house, so I should have time to do the cake balls that night. I just hate tossing so much cake top. For my daughter's cake, I probably tossed an entire 8" cake worth of tops and it always bugs me when I have to do that.

There are some great ideas for making different cake balls in this topic;

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=18108&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=cake&&start=0

Hope you get some creative ideas and have some fun with them !!!!