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I made these for a faculty holiday party, then wasn’t able to go to the party–rats! But I took them to my department office on Monday and they virtually disappeared before my very eyes! One woman said she was “cursing my name” because she’d plowed through 5 or 6 of them before she could stop herself. LMAO!!!

Though they turned out great (thanks to your careful directions), I’m not much of a baker, so I’m embarrassed to ask (but I’ll ask anyway) how you decorated them, with those little lines of chocolate going this way and that?

Thanks for helping me make people think I have a clue in the kitchen!

These are just fantastic. I used a devil’s food cake mix with butter cream icing and I swear to you they taste like Swiss Cake Rolls, just 1000% better. What a fabulous and easy treat. Thank you for sharing this.

I am so going to make these this week! I think I’ll give them a white chocolate (almond bark of course) coating instead. I love red velvet cake!

how would dipping them into warmed cream cheese frosting for their outer coating. anyone have an idea how they would be? I would put condensed milk in cake mixture and make the balls then try dipping in cream cheese frosting?

Can you use food coloring with the bark? I wanted to make red velvet balls & make the choc green to have for Christmas Eve dinner but didnt know if the bark will take food coloring?

Mine turned out gooey as well, but I think it was because I mixed the cake and frosting in my Kitchen Aid. Next time I’ll follow the directions and mix with a spoon. They are still absolutely yummy though.

Im really intrested in making these for christmas but what would be the best way to store them if i want to make them a couple days ahead of time?

I just love all these recipes ! Right now I have the Red Velvet Balls in the freezer . I was wondering how long should I leave them in the freezer ? I am making them for my work Holiday Party tomorrow . Hopefully they will turn out with the Chocolate Almond Bark :) Thank You for all these great recipes !
Amy
Longwood Florida

well our balls are made! all we have to do is eat them!!!! The actual dipping part (into the chocolate) is time consuming and a bit messy. It was fun, though. My dd’s favorite part was rolling the cake into balls. When I first started adding the cream cheese frosting, I didn’t think it would actually be enough, but it surely was. The chocolate seemed like I had too much, but well, I didn’t. It was just enough. The actual recipe was so easy, but it’s definitely time consuming and messy. We ended up with around 60-70 balls. The recipe said 50-60, so I guess some of them were smaller. We are waiting on them to harden and we will eat them up! I took alot of pictures along the way.

oh and instead of using red velvet, I used butter recipe cake mix. I decided red velvet would possibly stain something with an 8yr old as my assistant.

LisaJ, that red velvet cake mix sure does make everything it touches a lovely red color–including utensils, hands, white dog snouts. LOL! I’m trying them with chocolate cake later today. At least one of my dogs is a chocolate lab, so no stain issues there!

i made them for my office and everyone loved them. mine didn’t look as pretty as yours. i had a hard time rolling them in melted chocolate. they didn’t look as smooth as yours. thanks for sharing your recipe. i love your website!

Thank you for sharing your recipe for the cake balls. However, I am making cake pops and wasn’t sure when to put the stick in the cake balls? I’m guessing after they firm up in the freezer I will be able to put the sticks in the cake balls? Help?

I just tried the red velvet cake balls (pops) for my church choir’s christmas fellowship. Instead of the chocolate bark, I used Wilton’s candy melts in color burst brights (white candy with specks of primary colors). They turned out perfect, and everyone loved them! I made tow batches, which yieled approximately 80 – 85 balls; I managed to save 20 for my sister. One gentleman left with 13 for his midnight snacks.

Thanks for the wonderful ideas and receipes and ideas!!!!! I am a new fan for life!

Felicia

HI – I’ve made these twice now in the past week and they are SO fun to make, and they are a huge hit… just wondering if you had a secret to keeping the chocolate coating from cracking… to speed up the process, I put the rolled balls in the freezer for about 20-30 mins, which makes the chocolate set up really nice, but I get cracking. I’m using Mercks chocolate wafers. By the way, you are so talented to get your so smooth! thanks for this, and Happy Holidays!

I live in Indonesia, and I don’t have any of the ready made mixes or chocolate melts. Are there any good velvet cake and cream cheese icing recipes you prefer? And is there a suggesting for the chocolate coating? I’m making the reindeer pops for a Christmas party tonight, so I’ll be trying out some recipes I found online… but I wasn’t sure if you had any suggestions! Thanks!!

I just made some of these for a holiday party tomorrow and decided to decorate them for Christmas. I used candy decorating pens, and this was my first time EVER decorating baked things, other than sprinkling some colored sugar on top of cookies. Check them out: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2526/4197880875_a7f94ca4f5_m.jpg

ok, i have made the cake balls but i want to make them into cake pops….how do i make stay ROUND?? and when do i put the sticks in them?? sorry i looked around for these answers and couldnt find them

Thank you

so i’ve been meaning to make these for awhile and finally made them last night. i did chocolate cake/cherry frosting/chocolate melts… omg awesome… not thinking they will make it into the gifts

I love your recipe but I am left wondering if there is a substitute to the chocolate bark, like can I use regular chocolate for melting. Sorry, cannot find the chocolate bark anywhere!

Thanks

Hi,

The Red Velvet Cake Balls look great! Can’t wait to make them.

What can I use instead of chocolate bark? I can’t find it here and would prefer to use a higher quality chocolate anyway.

Thanks for your help!

I am going to try these today….I love your website….I even bookmarked it.

Yum! One of my bloggy friends mentioned she was making these and I had to look up the recipe.

Great idea sounds delicious and fun for kids to help with.

Thanks.

thanks for the recipe! i have a friend that made them and i just loved it! so i luckily found your website so i could make them!thanks again for the awesome recipe!(everyone who is reading this make sure you try it with white choc.)even more yummier!!!!!!!!!!

love,abc thats my inicials:abc)

Bakerella…I just finished making these little balls of sweet perfection. Wow. The combinations that I will be trying. :-)
Thank you so much! Love your site! Lots of recipes to try….
Thanks again,
Tiffany

Hi Bakerella,
Let me first say how much I love your site and all your ideas, you are amazing. I am having a problem with my cake pops and balls and was wondering if you could help. I freeze them and have been using merkens melting chocolates and every batch has at least 5 that crack. Am I doing something wrong or do you have any suggestions. Thank you.

Hi what do you mean by chocolate bark? And also can i use philadelphia icing instead of store bought cream cheese frosting?

I love your site and think you have amazing recipes and pictures. Let me know what you think about my site if you have the chance….

http://www.moodfoodblog.com

Joudie

Oh my gosh!! I made these and they turned out fabulous! I’m glad I had two helpers though since I also put sprinkles on them. One put the balls in the chocolate, one swirled it around to cover, put them on the cookie sheet and the third did the sprinkles. It would have been difficult all by myself.

I made milk chocolate (using almond bark) and dark chocolate (using good quality choc chips). I did prefer working with the chips vs the almond bark as the chocolate didn’t cool as fast and was easier to work with.

I also put the balls in the freezer for about 1/2 hour or so before dipping in the chocolate, this worked beautifully.

I will be making these again and everyone wanted the recipe, I just told them to check out this website, it’s awesome!!

Do you think I could roll the balls in chopped walnuts or pecans after I dip them in the chocolate? I don’t want to mess them up, but I know some people use these types of nuts on their regular red velvet cake. Thank you so much for your help!

I have made the red velvet cake balls, oreo truffles, and cake balls with strawberry cake! Love them all, but the strawberry cake balls are beyond amazing!!

hey i tried these and they were AMAZING so i wanted to make some for my family’s holiday dinner. would you recommend making them the day of or the day before?

do you recommend chilling them before serving?

Hi Bakerella! I love your site and I was so inspired to make these delicious balls for my office for the holidays…but it was quite a disaster. I used White cake and white icing since Red Velvet is not my favorite. I let the cake cool, added the icing and I had one GOOEY mess. I put the mix in the fridge overnight and I was able roll out balls the nexy day, but the moment they went into the chocolate everything melted and just left one big gooey ball. I was so disappointed and I am trying to figure out what I did wrong. I think maybe a can of icing was too much. What do you think?
I may have the give these things another shot!

Thank you for posting this recipe! I made these for my friends for the holidays, and they were a huge hit with everyone. (My family, the taste testers, loved them as well.) They’re absolutely delicious!

Thanks for sharing us this idea ^.^ yumiii yumiiiiiii

I made these yesterday to bring for Christmas later this week. I’m keeping them in the fridge. Love your website. I followed your instructions exactly and did not have any major problems. I do think these are too sweet for my taste, I hope others will like it more. Keep up the good work!

BTW, here’s a picture of what I made. I think they turned out great considering it’s my first time!

Sorry, forgot again. haha

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6845/cakebites.jpg

These look great! Does anyone know how this tastes if I use semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of chocolate bark?

These are adorable… I’m making some for my dad for the holidays and he is just too excited. It looks excellent!

Just made some Christmas and they’re delicious! My cake seems to breaking when I’m rolling it in chocolate, so I think I may have to cool them a little more first. I have one more batch left, so I’m going to cool them overnight and then try to dip them in the chocolate in the morning.

How do you make them perfectly round? Mine were rather lopsided….

How do you make them “perfectly” round, mine were rather lopsided :(

I love this!! you are really creative! I will try this for Christmas.. Keep it up! =]

Oh my! I just made a batch of these as part of a bunch of candies I’m making for gifts and they are DELISH!!!! I used vanilla bark instead of chocolate tho and mmmmmm Thanks so much for posting this recipe!

We made cake balls for neighbor gifts – devils food and lemon. However I have yet to perfect getting the frosting to look as smooth as yours. What is the secret? I put the cake balls into the fridge to cool. Do you double dip? The best success was dipping the top – letting it cool then the bottom. I love making them but can never get them to look as beautiful as yours.

I am in the process of making these now for my neice’s baby shower. I will let you know how they turned out. Thanks for the recipe.

I made these, but with devil’s food cake with dark fudge icing. Oh my…they are sinful.

I was unable to hand roll beautiful perfectly round balls. I was also unable to create a smooth outter shell. I used dark chocolate on almost all of them, until I ran out. Then I used red with green drizzle on top. I like the taste of dark chocolate bark better than vanilla.

Eventhough my turned out ugly….they were still fabulous. I will be making these again.

I think invovling kids would be ideal (during the mixing stage). That part is VERY messy.

I just made these and it was extremely difficult to dip in the chocolate smoothly. Out of the 3 dozen I made only maybe 3 looked decent.

I made these a few days ago and here are my tips:

Use a scoop when first making the balls but don’t bother trying to make them perfectly round right then.

Stick them in the freezer for about 20 minutes, then roll between hands to make them rounder – so much easier.

After dipping in chocolate (I used white almond bark), let them sit, covered, in the fridge for at least a day.

These were SO much better 24 and 36 hours later. I was seriously disappointed with them at first, but after sitting up for a while, the cake part got so much better.

I make these all the time and what I do when using a pop stick is dip one side in little chocolate and then put the choc side up on a cookie sheet- stick the pop stick in the chocolate side and let set- I find that this helps set the stick in place for when I am ready to dip and decorate in more chocolate.

Bakerella-Your cake pops are gorgeous. I stumbled on these a year or so myself and fell in love with them- so easy and fun!!

Bakerella, I loved the recipe so much I made it for Christmas and it was a hit! I was wondering if you had any suggestions on how to modify the recipe for making an almond cake/yellow cake with amaretto flavoring or orange liquor flavoring dipped in chocolate. Should I still use the cream cheese frosting, or something else to bind the cake?

I just made these for the holidays. I couldn’t find a red velvet cake mix so I made the cake and frosting from scratch. A smashing success!

love this idea..had some trouble but kept practicing and found that using a fork to roll the balls around is much easier then a spoon…easier to tap off the excess chocolate too!

hey bakerella, i was wondering how you get the chocolate coating on your cake balls to come out looking so smooth. when i make them, the chocolate tends to get clumpy even tho i melt small amounts in the microwave at a time.

Hi Bakerella, I plan on making these for my friend’s birthday coming soon (cept I’ll be making cake pops instead), and I was wondering how much does one box mix make? I’ll actually be making the cake by scratch, but I think it’s still the same amount.

Thank you for the inspiration. I have made my cake balls and I will admit I made my cake from scratch. This is the first time I have made cake from scratch but I couldn’t find a mix at the store. They are delicious and so much fun. I convinced my husband to let me have a New Year’s Eve party just so I could have a venue for these beautiful little creations.

I just made them through some trial and error I think I finally got it! I definitely didn’t cook my cake long enough, or let it cool long enough, hence the gooey texture. But I did realize one thing, the dark cocoa Wilton melts are so much easier to use than the white chocolate ones. It seems as though the chocolate is smoother, whereas the white is so thick it pulls the cake and doesn’t go on very well! I think with more practice these will definitely be in my dessert arsenal!

I made cake balls after stalking this site for months!!! Yaaa me. Used marshmallow frosting instead and a pound cake. Still working on the ratio and th e gooiness.

Bakerella u rock out loud!! Happy New Year everybody!!

I wanted to try your cakeballs for an event and I was wondering how far in advance I could make them and they still remain fresh?

Thanks…. I love your site….

I just finished making these and was a little bit disappointed. The cake balls by themselves were delicious, but using chocolate bark made them very sweet. Love the idea, but next time I will try semi-sweet chocolate bars instead. Thanks for sharing, Bakerella.

I have made a bunch of different types of cake balls from your site and every time I make them people LOVE THEM!!!! I had one person say they are “little balls of heaven!” Thanks so much for such a great site!!!!

Thanks for this great idea! I am trying them today and so far they are coming out great! I did find that I only needed about 2/3s of the icing though. I think that if I would have added the whole thing it would have been too mushy.

I made these a few weeks ago for Christmas using carrot cake mix and dipped them in melted white chocolate wafers. I had a hard time with the dipping part but what I ended up doing was half dipping them and when the chocolate got hard i dipped the other half so I ended up with a little ring of cake showing in the middle but they looked really cute. I think they taste best right out of the freezer.. I still have a bunch in there.

I saw you on studio5 and tried devils food cake put Rum extrax in it rolled them in Choc candies My Danish husband and children think I now know how to make rumballs
and they are soooo easy
Thank you!

Thank you so much for this recipe. In preparation for my sister-in-law’s baby shower, I did a test run – and brought 2 different flavors of cake balls to my office. They were clearly a hit as I got about 6 marraige proposals from the guys in my office, hah!
I confidently made more for the baby shower and the praise continued. Everyone was asking for the recipe, so I just shared the link to your blog and now all my friends and family are raving about the cake balls they have made. We all LOVE your blog and are so excited to try all your amazing recipes! Keep it up and thanks!

I love this pretty cupcake,and u should see my cupcake on the stick

Thank you so much for this recipe! My mom has a 3 hour surgery today, so I made these for the nurses and for her recovery room. I also made the hospital logo on surgar cookie’s. I was really excited about this because I have many family members that work at the hospital. Please take a look if you have the time: http://sugarcookieart.blogspot.com/2010/01/surgery.html
Hopefully a few sweets will lighten a stressful surgery. She’s having to get her ankle fused because she had Polio when she was a kid.

I was just given your information of this incredible site and I am so happy!!!!! Thank you for creativity and love of baking!!!

I was hoping to find varaties of the recipes. Has anyone used heavy whippingcream in place of frosting or marshmellow fluff. How about pudding with it? My sister and I went to a bridal show and one guy said he makes them with heavycream, but I can’t find a recipe. He charges $1.25 per cake truffle. We dont want to spend that much and were hoping to make them our selves. My mom made the frosting kind and they were way too sweet. Any comments would be helpful, Thanks

Bakerella, I’m going to make this tomorrow. My questions is, when you mix the cake and icing, do you gently mix it or do you squeeze-mix it to get it to stick together? I guess I’ll find out tomorrow and play with it. I can’t wait, I’m so excited. You are soooo talented and I love your blogs!!!!

I made these last week and they turned out great! I used a butter recipe chocolate cake mix and vanilla frosting (it’s what I had on hand) and then covered them in white choc. almond bark… they were delish! I gave them to the nurses in the hospital (had a baby Sunday) and everyone thought I was Martha Stewart! So I referred them to your site! They were fantastic! I just LOVE your blog- it’s my new favorite thing! Thanks so much for all you do!!

I would love to try these. How long do you think they would stay fresh? How would you store them?

These are very cute and easy to whip up. The chocolate bark was a little too sweet tho… Are there any recommendations on any substitutions for the bark so it’s not as sweet?

Looks like I found my Valentines Day gift for teachers. They look forward to my baked goods every holiday so it was so great ot find your site through a friend. I can now wow them with some new fun recipes. Thanks.

Mine didn’t turn out; I made the red velvet cake balls… cooked them according to the cake instructions, cooled completely, crumbled in a bowl, added the cream cheese frosting, made the balls, put in fridge for quite a while, but didn’t put the chocolate on the outside. Would that have made a difference? The balls just didn’t taste good as is … almost like they weren’t cooked; it was weird. Maybe I will try again and use the chocolate coating.

my aunt had made these for multiple parties and get-togethers. i absolutely LOVE THEM! i cant wait to try them out myself

My family loves the cake balls. When I roll the cake in balls, I dampen my hands. The cake mix does not stick to your hands.

Hey Bakerella!

Could you tell a substitude for the cream cheese frosting?

I made these for a bake sale and they came out great! Note to anyone who wants to use Frutti Dolci — you’ll need about 4 containers of it for this recipe.

Hi Bakerella,
I’m trying to make the red velvet lollipops for my daughters birthday party. How many days in advance should I make them? Should the chocolate cover be hard/crunchy?
Thanks.

Hi. I made these last night for a football gathering on Sunday. I used chocolate cake, cream cheese frosting, and green candy melts. Drizzled white candy melts on top for NYJets themed colors. Of course I had to taste one and they are delicious. I just need to work on the dipping part, since mine were a bit messy. Next time I will use 2 forks rather then 2 spoons for the dipping. I’m not even sure how I stumbled upon your site, but your attention to detail is extraordinary! I can’t wait to try these again!

this seems like a good treat to make for little ones that like choclate

Hi Bakerella. Notice that you have not replied to anyone since November 25th…hope you are okay. You have a fantastic website and great ideas….thank you for sharing.

I just made these for a birthday dinner tomorrow for a few 25-28 year olds…I’ll let you know what they think of them

As most of the guests are chocoholics, I made a dark fudge cake, milk chocolate frosting and threw in 1/2 C of mini chocolate chips…then rolled the cake balls in Wilton’s Dark Cocoa candy melts that I found in Party City…they have so many colors, but I think a block of Bark may be better.

Suggestions: I used a stand mixer to mix cooled cake with frosting of your choice. I found that 1 Cup of frosting (about 2/3 of a pkg of frosting) was more than enough; as you said, you do not want the mixture to be gooey. I did refrigerate my mixture over night; which made rolling very easy; I was told to wet my hands to make rolling easier, but I did not need to do that. I also put the balls in the freezer before dipping in the candy melts. I did not have a problem with bits of cake getting into the melted chocolate, probably because they were frozen.

However, I did have a PROBLEM or two or three…regardless of how few candy melts I melted at a time, it kept getting thick (I melted the melts in a bowl over slow simmering water) so I kept adding vegetable oil which thinned it out., but I still found it difficult to get the balls coated evenly and coated completely on all sides. Do YOU coat the bottom of your balls? I used a fork, rather than a spoon because too much of the melt was sticking to the spoon, but the tines left marks in the balls which I fixed later. They taste GREAT…looks eh…I guess practice makes perfect…

I also discovered that some of the coating cracked…this is my first time working with candy melts…what am I doing wrong? How do you prevent the coating from cracking?

I agree with others, No way can one person decorate with sprinkles or other toppings (other than drizzling bark) that need to go on a wet coating to adhere…the candy melt dries too fast. Next time, I think I will try dipping the cake balls in melted chocolate as it dries slower. Has anyone tried Betty Crocker’s “Drizzlers” to decorate with?

I made and coated 54 balls and I still have more cake/frosting mixture in the refrigerator which I will leave for tomorrow…maybe I will try coating them by melting some chocolate and see if I l get better coating results with that medium.

Hope all is well and that you find time to respond to your fans real soon. Kind regards…

I know it’s been over 2 years since you posted this… but I’ve just gotten a chance to make these. At first I made 50, then I made another 60 (in one day!) because they were Absolutely AMAZING. I gave them out to my friends and the expressions on their faces completely Freeze and then Change to this expression of Euphoria as they bite into these truffles and they demand more and more!!!

I cannot THANK YOU enough for the invention of these things. They’re cheap and easy to make and they are absolutely a crowd pleaser… I cannot emphasize enough how much people LOVE these! =)

What would you suggest would be the easiest wedding cake ball…Cake/icing wise…Oh and made the cheesecake balls with sprinkles for a baby shower and they were a hit!!!!

I just made these using devils food cake mix, chocolate frosting and they are so delicious! I dipped half in white chocolate and half in dark chocolate. They were incredibly easy to make (and a lot of fun). Thanks!

First try=epic success!! considering I didn’t have any chocolate to cover them, they were still tasty and unbelievably addicting I need to stop eating them, but I won’t haha. :D
thanks so much for the recipe! I’m going to make them Valentine’s day. God bless!

I made some cake balls for the first time just a couple of weeks ago! I used strawberry cake, cream cheese frosting, and chocolate for the outside. So good. Thanks for the recipe.

How do you get the finishing chocolate swirls detail on top ?

Jennifer,
I have made cake balls a number of times and have experimented with different ways to make the swirls on top. The easiest for me was to put some of the melted chocolate in a ziploc baggie and cut a *very small* opening across one of the corners of the bag. Then, I can just squeeze and drizzle some of the chocolate across it. You can also do this with colored candy melts from craft stores for different holidays.

I made these before, it is easy and so good, Lemon cake would be great too!!

oh, instead of dipping the cake balls, you can place on wax paper and pour or spoon melted chocolate over them- this leaves the bottom flat

thank you for shering. ? think this is delicious.i’ll try to make it…thank for alll. your website is veryyyyyyy goood..

My daughter and I made these yesterday. They turned out great! Everyone loved them! Thank you.

I’m a little late jumping on the bakerella bandwagon but I love this site! I am hoping to make these for my boyfriend for valentines day but just have one question: is the chocolate bark essentially the same thing as Baker’s chocolate squares?

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this recipe! I have made cake balls 3 times now in the past 3 weeks. I first made the red velvet cake balls with vanilla frosting. I used Nestle chocolate chips and a little bit of paraffin wax for my chocolate to dip them in. They came out delicious!
Next, I made a lemon cake from scratch and decided to use Hershey’s special dark chocolate chips for my melted chocolate and then I sprinkled the tops with a tiny bit of lemon zest to make them look pretty.. they were a huge hit at my daughter’s baptism!
Lastly, I made an orange cake from scratch and dipped in dark chocolate. Then I made an orange glaze and drizzled it on top for decoration.

These have been a HUGE hit in my family. Next on my list to try is the oreo truffles!

Thank you for such a great recipe! These are definitely my go-to dessert for large gatherings now! They go a lot further than the cake would by itself!

wowww! i looove ur site! will definetly be trying out some of these! thanx!

bakerella! your site is my favorite. i’m making these for my boyfriend for valentines day!!! can i make it with yellow cake mix and white icing with chocolate bark??

My favorite kind of cake! I wonder if it would work with Cream Cheese mixed into the white chocolate bark for the coating? *mouth waters*

I don’t know what I did WRONG they so didn’t look like your picture AND because they looked so bad, I didn’t even taste them, just threw them away :( maybe baking isn’t my thing…