Okay, I know I have read that a lot of my fellow CC members cover their cake balls in chocolate, and I'm having some trouble. (I have only covered them before in RI or powdered sugar, etc.) I also have read that they are easier to cover if they are frozen....so I made the cake balls, froze them, and then tried dipping them in melted chocolate. I tried dipping them with a skewer, but the hole that the skewer left had cake ball squeezing out of it as I tried to fill the holes, like the cake balls were expaning. Just wondering if there is a better way to cover them in chocolate? Maybe a better way to dip them than using the skewers? I want to have them already to go frozen in the freezer. Thanks so much for your help.
My goodness, I have never encountered that. I always freeze anything I am going to dip (any candy).
I always dip them with a tooth pick. I am not sure why they would expand on you.
I leave them attached to the toothpick and place them on a foam florist shap for presentation so I don't worry about filling the holes.
I am not sure that you can freezr chocolate though. You might end up with sweat marks when they thaw.
They do keep for a week without freezing since the cake is sealed.
Good luck.
Maybe someone else knows if you can freeze chocolate without any interactions.
All I do is roll them around in the chocolate using a spoon or fork (but I don't poke them with the fork). There is a little gadget that is near the chocolate melts at Michael's that you could use but I think it's to flimbsy. I just use a spoon & my hands~
I use candy dipping tools. One has an oval shaped loop on the end and the other has 2 prongs. I don't pierce the cake balls/candy. I drop the ball into the melted chocolate and use a tool to lift it out, let the excess drip off then place it on parchment paper. A dinner fork can be used with almost the same results.
Good Luck!
I have had the same thing happen. After dipping with a toothpick, the cake oozes out the hole. I think it does expand some after being frozen. I've also had my chocolate coating crack. I dip with a toothpick and try to shake off the excess chocolate. Maybe the coating is too thin (cracking). I have tried using a plastic fork with the 2 inner tines broken off. That works fairly well also.
wont the cake balls seize the chocolate? I always just take a skewer and take a spoon and drizzle the chocolate over and place in floral foam just till the chocolate hardins a little bit then you can put it on wax paper and you won't get that little puddle of chocolate at the bottom (although that is one of my DH's fav parts 
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Thanks everyone for your help....I also tried using the dinner forks together, but I think by that time my cake balls were thawing out. I think I am wanting to see perfect covered balls (like my chocolate-covered oreos), I guess I need a mold, lol!
Chiara-I read on a thread that people were freezing them after they were covered in chocolate, so I have no clue if they will "sweat" through or not. I am giving them out as thank-you gifts and wanted to have them already prepared ahead of time.
wgoat5-the chocolate didn't seize up at all when I dipped the cake balls into them, although I kept my bowl of chocolate on a heating pad, so maybe that helped?
Thanks again!
What I do is take them out of the freezer early and let them thaw some. If I don't have time for that, I put them in the microwave for about 8 seconds (about 10 at a time). Then I use Wilton's chocolate melting pot and just drop them in, roll it around and I use a tiny bamboo spoon (from pampered chef) and just drop them onto parchment paper.
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