Simply Saturday Cake Balls: Or How to Doll Up Leftover Cake!

STOP THE PRESSES!!!

THE "TEX" HAS SOLD TO 

LOVE INSPIRED BOOKS...

FOLKS, CAKE BALLS CAN WAIT... (but not too long) 

but this....

THIS!!!!!

THIS IS NEWS!!!

MINDY OBENHAUS, CO-OWNER AND PROPRIETOR OF THE YANKEE-BELLE CAFE, 

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU!!!!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program...

Day old cake....

Dull, right?

Boring?

Not stale.... but not FRESH!!!! either...

 See what I mean?

Worn plate....

Day old baked goods.

Crumbs.....

Here's the chocolate version:

Don't you just wanna grab a fork and eat????

OR!!!!  FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO NEVER HAVE LEFTOVER CAKE, GO TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY STORE AND:

Buy these...

But we're havin' Mom's Night at my place tomorrow night....

Where all the cute daycare moms get together.

Eat.

Drink punch.

Watch Steel Magnolias

GRAB THE TISSUES!!!!!!

But leftover cake wasn't going to cut it, so:

I smushed up the yellow cake in one bowl, with the frosting....

I smushed up the chocolate cake in another bowl with frosting....

Then I divided the smushed chocolate cake into two bowls.

I chopped up 8 little Reese's peanut butter cups and threw them in one bowl of smushed cake.

Then I added a dollop of the chocolate coating melting on the stove over a pot of hot water.

I mixed.

Then I formed them all into balls:

These are the cake balls with peanut butter cup bits....

Now it's dipping time

I melted dark chocolate Ghirardelli coating bar with milk chocolate chips and added a 1/2 Tablespoon of vegetable oil... then stirred as they melted, until it was all smooth and silky.

I made the mistake of dipping/coating the first one at room temperature.

OOPS.

Cake Ball Down!!!!!

Man Down! Man Down!!!!

:)

So I put them in the freezer for ten minutes.

Ah.

Better!!!  I coated all the balls... I left the yellow cake balls with no garnish.

The chocolate ones got sprinkles.

The peanut butter chocolate cake balls got a tiny swirl of peanut butter, 

mixed into the coating as they cooled. A garnish, that's all.

Just enough to tell the difference.

And here they are:

The girls will love them.

And I love the girls.

A win/win!