Cake Balls!

So it is really no secret that I love to bake. Recently I have ventured into the world of making cake balls. They are really fun to make and I have enjoyed thinking up different combinations and ways to decorate them. Before you think they seem to hard to make, allow me to dispel that myth. This is the way that I do it:

1. Bake any kind of cake. If you want to use box cake, get the 18 oz. boxes.
2. Let cake cool completely and then crumble into tiny pieces.
3. With the back of a spoon, add 12 oz. of any kind of canned frosting and mix together. I like to add fun things like sprinkles or mini chocolate chips to some.
4. Roll into balls...

5. Freeze for 30 minutes. Looks like cookie dough...tastes like cake!

(I had some leftover that I did not dip in chocolate...and since I have been slacking on freezing homemade baby food for Owen these days, I decided to put the Beaba food storage container to a different use.)
6. Melt chocolate.
7. Dip the cake balls in using a spoon and then let cool on wax paper. (Use a toothpick to circle around the edge of the cake balls to get excess chocolate off of the bottom before it hardens.

8. Decorate if you would like.
From left to right:
Chocolate Chip, Funfetti, Red Velvet, Carrot
(yes I do realize I have jumped the gun on Easter with the last one)

9. Put them in a cute box...

10. And make them your Valentines this year!