Cake Balls
22 January 2013
18 comments
The English countryside looks beautiful after it has snowed. For obvious safety reasons, we don’t usually drive along little country roads in this weather, but as it was necessary this weekend (and I wasn’t the one behind the wheel) I took the opportunity to snap some pictures of our journey.
In the spirit of pretty things I wanted to share with you some cake balls. I think these are going to be something I come back to annually, try to make them, hate the process and avoid until I forget how much they’ve annoyed me!
I do not possess the patience to coat things in chocolate, and though you can cover a multitude of sins in sprinkles, I can’t help but feel a little disappointed with the results.
Despite my lack of love for how they look, these cake balls are delicious. So much so that I had to send them out of the house to my lovely boyfriends office where they were promptly demolished.
Chocolate Cake Balls
makes 30 cake pops
Sponge:
2 egg
125g butter
115g self raising flour
20g cocoa powder
125g caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 tbsp milk
Preheat the oven to 180C, butter and line a cake tin.
Mix all the ingredients until they form a smooth batter.
Pour the batter into the tin and bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 25-30 minutes until the top is light brown and inserted skewer comes out clean.
Leave to cool.
Icing:
70g dark chocolate melted and cooled
5tbsp icing sugar
1tbsp sour cream
1tbsp double cream
Mix the chocolate and 2tbsp of icing sugar together.
Add the cream and sour cream and mix thoroughly, this should create a quite liquidy paste.
Add the rest of the icing sugar in tbsp increments until the icing is smooth and holds its shape – I just lifted my beaters out and when it held the whisk marks I stopped adding icing sugar.
Cake Balls:
1 x sponge
1 x icing
200g dark chocolate
chocolate sprinkles
Crumble the sponge until it resembles breadcrumbs.
Mix in the icing until thoroughly blended.
Roll the mixture into balls and place on a lined baking tray.
Place in the freezer for 15 minutes to set.
Melt chocolate in a bowl over boiling water.
Roll each ball in chocolate and cover in sprinkles.
Leave to set.
These look great Jenny, they remind me of Secret Bars we once were able to get. They were my favourite chocolate bar but got removed!
Thanks David. I don’t think I’ve ever tried a Secret Bar before!
Your snow pictures are simply stunning Jenny. So beautiful. I feel the same way about cake balls/cake pops. I think it’s safest if I stay away from making them though because it’s very hard to stop eating them!
Thanks Kathryn! I had to get this batch out of my house asap! there were dangerous to have around!
Jenny. I read a lot of blogs, but yours is always my favorite. The way you compose your posts and photographs. Just stunning. These cake balls look delicious and the scenes from the country…just glorious. Thank you for sharing! I hope you are having a lovely week!
Monet that is so sweet of you to say!! Thank you!
These sound so simply perfect. Cake + Icing + Chocolate – really all a girl needs, right? And I didn’t even notice that they looked less than perfect, but I totally understand how you feel about the tedious process! I did chocolate-dipped marshmallows not that long ago… it was a long, drawn out mess.
They were so tasty I had to have them taken out of the house!
Your snow photos are stunning my friend, they compliment the warm and beautiful cake balls
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thanks CCU!
simple cake balls always the answer to horrible weather or a horrible day!
or anything chocolatey!
I love chocolate jimmys. Any sprinkles really
These look great. Your pictures are really stunning.. I’m a bit jealous really. I haven’t even properly experienced snow.
Sprinkles make the world better! I really want to see proper snow not the slushy kind we get over here
YOU MEAN I HAVE TO WAIT FOR A YEAR FOR THESE AGAIN?!
if not longer
Although I have a baking blog, most of what I eat tends to be very healthy and a bit ‘boring’ to photograph. It is always a struggle as a food blogger: do I write about the shiny, pretty stuff or the ‘real’ food.
I’m mulling over that fact at the moment – go with what’s pretty and popular or what I actually want/should eat?
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