Is there anywhere online that I can buy royal blue ( and other bright colors) of candy melts? I am wanting to make the muppets cake pops for my nephews birthday and Wilton.com I s completely out of stock.
Any good alternatives?

Maybe buy white bark and color it blue. I won't use anything but bark. Hope you find what you're looking for.

I finally gave in and decided to make something other than a simple ball. So I made my first reindeer. But with practice, it will get better. Here he is. I am making them all with different colored noses instead of brown or red. Something different, not the norm.

http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2210504

Enjoy

This thread is soo cool... After reading 89 pages, im so eager to try this tomorrow. My nephews bday is on saturday and will give this as my gift. Will decorate it like a basketball

And, have anyone invested on this?
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ROyGsnJ_3b0

AI know this thread is old but I just want to say thank you to everyone for the wonderful tips, tricks, and flavor ideas. I read the entire thread between last night and today, and I look forward to experimenting with different flavor combos. :-)

I made Twinkie balls...piped the frosting (cream cheese with cool whip) into the balls. What could be better than bite sized twinkies?

FYI...these are so much better than the store bought version ;)
 

Pardon my ignorance, but what are cake balls?  I've not heard of them before.

Oh my gosh I made cake balls with lemon cake mix and buttercream frosting then dipped them in Wilton's Dark Chocolate Rasberry candy melts. I can not explain what it is but they are addictive! I also made some with triple chocolate fudge cake, buttercream frosting dipped in chocolate candy melts rolled in crushed up thin mints Another one was triple chocolate fudge cake, crushed up thin mints mixed in, buttercream frosting dipped in chocolate with a sprinkle of cookie on top.

Michaels has candy melts and somtimes they have good colors.

Cake balls are cake pops without the sticks. I call them cake truffles.

I don't know what cake pops are either.  This cake vocab isn't used in my country.

We now have cake pans that make little balls. If you use cake mix, then you make cake balls. You can insert a stick and have a cake lollipop. You can decorate them anyway you like. They are very cute & tasty! :)
 

these all sound so delicious! i have a banquet coming up and cake balls it is !  is there a fool proof method for making these?
 

A

AI have made chocolate cake and baileys icing dipped in dark choc and then rolled in crushed candy canes for Christmas they were a big hit

AHi all.

Glad to see more talk about cake truffles. That's what I call mine. I make mine larger than most because I like to offer a little more. I carry sweet potato pie, eggnog, pumpkin spice, carrot, keylime, orange dream, lemon, choco, mounds of joy, piney-coconut, banana pudding, etc. Plus more and new flavors coming. It is tedious but rewarding to hear your clients reaction. Happy Truffling!

WHAT ABOUT A SNICKERS KIND OF CAKE BALL. I AM FEELING CARMEL-LY AND NUTTY

Hi all,

I am going crazy trying to draw on the candy coating.  The edible markers do NOT work, I've tried 3 brands......... does anyone know what to do?

Thanks in advance :)

 

I haven't read everyone's posts, but I'm noticing a lot of y'all talking about coming up with flavors. I have been literally DREAMING about diffferent flavors lately, and once I try them out, they're pretty good. I was shopping around in Hobby Lobby and came across the LorAnn's candy flavoring oils. I grabbed a few and used them to make cake balls with...I got grape, watermelon, blue raspberry, lemon lime, and cherry cake balls, y'all! They were deleicious and super cute. I made them using white cake mix from a box, and then added food coloring for the different colors---like purple for grape, blue for blue raspberry, etc. Then, I made up my own simple butter cream frosting and divided out about a cup per flavor and added a 1/2 dram to a full dram of the LorAnn's oil to the frosting and stirred it into the cake. I dipped them in colored candy wafers and basically, the candy wafer color reflected the cake color---pink for watermelon, purple for grape, etc.

Once again, D-Li-Cious!

AI have two great books that let you vary between the box mix, or scratch recipes, which is all I use. The first book is by Dede Wilson, and the second book is by two women last names Ankeny and Lyons.

There are 51 recipes in the first book and over 60 in the second book. They are both called Cake Balls

They are both available on Walmarts website, and the first one is under $11, the second under $15, very little shipping, and lots of great flavor combos.

Just FYI and my 2 cents.

The peanut butter one sounds amazing!!

ALove cake balls

Hi everyone!  So, I have spent most of my day reading all 90 pages of this thread!  I tried cake balls in the past and didn't care for them, but I'm ready to dig in and give them another chance

Does anyone happen to know how many cake balls are in one serving?  Say, for a wedding or party, if they are planning for 100 people, how many cake balls should they purchase?

Thanks!

Karen

Can you put coloring in the candy melts to get a desired color you want?   Like a hot pink?

ABeagledog, if you thought they were too sweet try this: one of my coworkers uses plain, softened cream cheese mixed with a spalsh of vanilla as the binder to her crumbled cake. Maybe this will help cut the sweetnes, I find premade frostings to be too sweet also.

I also have a friend that uses coffee creamer to bind the crumbled cake (different flavors).

Flavors: choc cake crumbs with mini choc chips mixed in and a bit of chocolate buttercream, covered in dark chocolate. Red velvet with cream cheese and a splash of vanilla, covered on white choc and red velvet crumbs.

mareg, yes, you can add coloring to white melts.  but make sure you get the coloring intended for chocolate, not icing.

AI like making cherry cake and cut up bits of maraschino cherries and use some juice with powder sugar and dipping them in chocolate. I also like chocolate cake and grand mariner. Otherwise I just like adding fillings to them before dipping like Nutella and jam

how much cake for 7 dozen cake pops??  Starting to stress... 

I use a wilton scoop, so mine are about 1" or a little bigger, and I use a doctored cake mix.  I usually get about 30 out of a recipe, so to get 7 dozen, that would be 3 boxes, but you could do 4 to be safe..leftovers are great