Red Velvet Cake Balls

Something that I learned from my grandmother, Muv, is that it is always better homemade. Let me tell you, these homemade Red Velvet Cake Balls are incredible!! I made two huge patches over Christmas and they were gone so quickly. In addition, I will be making them soon again for a co-workers birthday at the end of the month. Be careful though, it is impossible to have just one! So enough talking; get baking:

Cake Ingredients (my mom and I found this recipe years ago in the newspaper):

1 stick butter, softened

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 ounces red food coloring

2 Tablespoons cocoa (heaping)

1 cup buttermilk

2 1/4 cups cake flour

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon baking soda

Cake Directions:

1. In a larger bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time.

2. In another bowl, mix red food coloring and cocoa until cocoa is completely dissolved. Add to the creamed mixture.

3. Mix on low speed, add buttermilk and flour alternately. Mix well but do not over-beat to ensure a light fluffy cake.

4. Add vanilla flavoring, mix well.

5. Blend the baking soda into the batter.

6. Transfer into two 9 inch round cake pans or one 9x13 pan.

7. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 25-30 minutes.

Once the cake is cooked and cool, break the cake and crumble into a large bowl. Mix one cream cheese icing into the crumbled cake and mix thoroughly. Once mixed, get ready to get your hands messy! Make bit size balls with the cake/cream cheese mixture. Once you have completed the entire batch, you can either a) freeze for an hour or b) refrigerate for two and a half hours. After you think the red velvet cake balls are firm enough, you are ready to dip them in white chocolate! I personally have a Chocolate Pro Melting Pot (that I got 40% off at Michaels). I put White Chocolate Almond Bark into the melting pot to dip the red velvet cake balls. However, you may melt the chocolate any way you prefer; for instance, double boiler, microwave, etc. Place your freshly dipped red velvet cake balls onto wax paper until harden. Enjoy :)

You can also add Sprinkles to the top of the cake balls before they harden. Above you can see I added red and green for the Christmas season!

P.S. Ignore how awful these pictures are. They are old, taken with my phone, and I wish I knew I was going to make a blog when I took these!