I made some cake balls over the weekend and covered them in chocolate almond bark. The almond bark worked great, but they weren't as smooth as I would have liked them. I looked in the gallery for pictures of cake balls after I finished mine. How do you get them so perfectly smooth?
I was using a small melting crock pot. It was all melted, but I did not use Crisco. I will try that. What was hard to get smooth was when I when to dip then to get the ball on the cold pan. The very cold ball would start to set and make the chocolate look messy after putting it down. Does that make sense???
you mean like you had a "foot" on the bottom like a little puddle that hardened??? You could always let them drain onto a cooling rack..........I freeze my cake balls and then dip them into the melted choc. with crisco and I use a fork to dip and retrieve them from the chocolate and then tap the fork on the side of the bowl the choc. is in and basically keep tapping it until all the excess has dripped away and usually (because they were frozen) the chocolate has set up and they're perfectly neat........you're always gonna get a little bit of messiness on the VERY bottom of them which is why people usually stick them in the little paper cups.....hides the very bottom and makes them look nicer. Hope some of my rambling has helped you!
I freeze my cake balls and then dip them into the melted choc. with crisco and I use a fork to dip and retrieve them from the chocolate and then tap the fork on the side of the bowl the choc. is in
I did this and the coolness of the frozen cake calls made my chocolate seize up. How do you prevent that from happening?
I am going to try using a fork next time. I did try a candy dipper, but the chocolate molded around the dipper before I could get them off. I can't wait to try them again this weekend.
Derby - I had a few balls setting out while I melted more chocolate. When they got into the chocolate, they fell apart. I definately did not have them packed together firm. Thanks everyone for your input.
You might also try using a small scooper. You'll be able to get it packed into the scooper that way. And if you buy a scooper that when you squeeze the handle it releases the cake ball, then you won't have to deal with that mess. Also they'll all be uniform size.
I have one of those scoopers; I will try it next.
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