I want to make cake balls for some of my co-workers for Thanksgiving and I've seen the recipes but I still have questions. I was thinking of doing a spice cake and my cream cheese icing, could I throw those in the mixer together? Can I add walnuts? I really like pumpkin bread can I use that with cream cheese? Please help!!!!

I think those sound wonderful. When I made mine I didn't even put them in the mixer. I just put the cake, icing and nuts in a bowl and used my hands to mush them up then dipped them in melted chocolate. Everyone loved them.

I don't see why you couldn't use the bread but I think it may tend to be a bit more dry then the cake.

Hi rflores! The spice cake and cream cheese combo sounds great! I don't do mine in a mixer but by hand, so I don't really know what that will do to the texture. I like to be able to "feel" the mixture so I can judge moisture and correct balling texture. Would you then dip or roll these? I think they'd be great either dipped in white chocolate or rolled in a cinnamon sugar. And on the pumpkin ones- don't know why you couldn't just make some pumpkin bread and crumble it up when cool, add your binder (though I don't think you'll need very much at all here as pumpkin bread is already quite moist and dense) and perhaps roll in flavored sugar. I think the addition of walnuts to either recipe would be great too. I just made a batch of cherry-coconut and added walnuts--wow! yum! If you like the taste of cranberry stuff- I also made some cranberry-orange dipped in white chocolate--just might be my personal fav so far! HTH

Robin

Thank you both. I wasn't sure if I should dip them in anything but the cinnamon sugar is a great idea. Or maybe I could coat them with a little bit more cream cheese and then roll them in chopped nuts oh man I'm getting hungry. After you get a good texture and then roll them what do you do?

That depends on whether you are going to serve them right away or keep them awhile. You can just refrigerate those you will be serving or giving right away, particularly those with perishable ingreds. like cream cheese, if nothing to spoil then can just leave them out at room temp. If you have willing folks then they probably won't last long anyway! Otherwise just freeze them for a later time.