Yes you can definitely freeze them. Just wrap them well so they don't absorb any freezer smells.

I also freeze my leftover buttercream!

How do you keep the crumbs out of the chocolate? I seem to have problems with cake balls and truffels. Half way through the batch my chocolate starts to get lumpy with the crumbs, or it starts to seize because of the liquid in the truffles/cake balls. Any suggestions? I am tired of having to throw away chocolate. Thanks, Keli

When I do mine, it is just cake scraps and buttercream, freeze for about 15 minutes, dip in chocolate, and voila! Everyone loves them, matter a fact, I have someone order 50 of them on January 5th ($20, is that a good price?). Thanksgiving was the first time I took them to my family, and I told them they need to help me come up with a name besides cake balls. They came up with reideer testicles and dingleberries. Needless to say, my family has issues

You and I must have the same family Gina, because that would have been the response I would have gotten too !!

That sounds like the kind of names my family would come up with. You are not alone! But, very funny. Keli

I call them cake balls or cake truffles.

i would like to know if they should be sticky??another thang can you use dry coffee creamer???
THANK YOU,
Stacy

Mamastacy, I haven't used buttercream in my cake balls yet, I use French vanilla coffee creamer too. Mine aren't that sticky, but I do form them with my hands and I find that I have to wash often or I end up a mess. I would also like to know the answer to the dry coffee creamer. I posted that on another thread awhile back but did not recieve the answer I was looking for. The suggestion I got which I like very much is to pour my left over coffee creamer into ice cube trays and freeze it. Then I can pop them out and put them in a zip lock bag and only defrost what I need.

Mine are a bit sticky before I dip them in chocolate. If your cake balls are too sticky to handle, then you probably have too much liquid or buttercream in them.

You can also freeze them after they are formed into balls to cut down on the stickiness so you can handle them enough to dip them in chocolate.

i am not a cake ball expert, but to answer the question about dry coffee creamer, i think the answer would be NO. the coffee creamer is used as a liquid to add moister to make the cake stick and become cake balls. dry coffee creamer wouldnt do that.
correct me if im wrong, my knowlegeble cc friends.


also, the raindeer testicales are sooooo funny. thanks for the laugh!!!!!

melody

thank you so very very much! im going to give it a try now .
stacy

Maybe I should have ask my coffee creamer question alittle clearer (I confuse myself sometimes LOL) Can you rehydrate dry coffee creamer with some water or milk to use as the liquid part of the cake...whatevers... I kindof like the festiveness of reindeer testicals.

ok , i was thinking that if u already have a lliquid,maybe the dry coffee creamer could add flav. thats why i asked about the dry coffee creamer. thanks for the repleys.
stacy

i think that if you add water to your dry coffee creamer, it would work....just not sure it would taste as good.

Well, I prefer them made with buttercream icing. You just add about 1/3 cup of icing to about what would be the equivalent of a 6 inch round cake in cake scraps. I make the balls, freeze them and then dip them in the melted chocolate, haven't had an issues with cake crumbs.
I think reconstituted coffee creamer should work fine.
I am wonderfing if seizing issues are caused by the chocolate cooling too much, I keep my bowl over a bowl of really hot water, but you must insure that absolutely not even a drop of water gets into the chocolate or you will get seizing.
Hugs Squirrelly

squirly, i think we should call these cake holes, and they would also have zero calories. hahaha

melody

one more question about cake balls,... how much do you guys charge for them? i am going to offer them as samples at craft fair this weekend, but not sure what i should charge.
any help would be apprecaited.
thanks melody

Thank you guys for all your help with the cake balls i made some and my dad loved them the rest of the family just keep looking and saying what is that mom.lol . but once again thank you for your repleys.
stacy,

The wonderful thing about cake balls is that you can put whatever you want in them! When I first started, I used the recipe to a "T" but now I make my own creations.

I've used chocolate cake scraps and leftover caramel filling for the "binder". I've used white cake with strawberry cream cheese as the binder. Your options are endless and up to you. You just need something sticky or wet to hold the cake together enough to form balls. When it's an adult party I'm making them for, I use the small bottles of liquors. Bailey's and Godiva are great ones to use.

Squirrelly, that is a cute idea with the ice cream cones, kids would love that.

Ironbaker, big kids too, haha!
Hugs Squirrelly

You guys are incredible! My partner always asked what I can do with the "waste" from leveling the cakes. She is an accountant, so waste is one of the deadly sins...she will be very glad to hear about these.

I made cake balls out of left over chocolate cake last night. I put them in the freezer for about 1 1/2, took them out and covered them in powdered sugar.

They were great as long as they were cold, but when they came to room temp. they were a bit soggy. Did I use too much flavored coffee creamer?

Possibly, MontiBelle. You want to add enough to get the cake to be able to form into balls and stick but not too much to oversaturate. You'l get the hang of it.

You can also try letting them sit out on waxed/parchement paper to "dry" first before you put them in the freezer. Now that I think about it, I think that part was in Cookieman's recipe for cake balls. he said to let them sit an hour or 2 before you dip them. Maybe that will help.

i dipped mine in wiltons choc. the ones where it comes in colors...anyway it dries really fast, and hardens, so when you bit into the cake balls you get a crunch.......man oh man!!!!!! talk about goood.
btw micheals has the wilton choc, on sale 2 bags for $3.00 i stalked up.

gave cake balls (although i called them "cake truffles") away as samples at craft fair today.....people went NUTS!!! they loved them and i sold out!!!!

have fun making these fun little balls!
melody

So did I miss your post about the craft sale Melodyscakes? Can't wait to hear all about it!
Hugs Squirrelly Cakes

This thread has made me hungry.

I will be using this as I always have cake scraps left overs..
I have some in the freezer right now...LOL...

I brought these into work last night and everybody loved them! They couldn't stop saying how good they were.

I made two kinds:

I added a little peppermint extract to icing and mixed it with chocolate cake. I dipped these in white chocolate and sprinkled with red, green and white non-pareils.

I added a little almond extract to icing (I don't use this when I make my icing) and mixed this with yellow cake and dipped in chocolate candy melts and sprinkled with chopped nuts.

One lady asked if I could write down the recipe or if it would be to hard! I am so glad this idea was posted. I never would have thought of this and everyone raves about them! They were gone so quick that some people didn't even realize I had brought in a tray of goodies.