The Crunchie Munchie Cake Ball
If you are a fan of salty-sweet combinations, this is the perfect cake ball for you.
If you are a fan of salty-sweet combinations, this is the perfect cake ball for you.
I was always intent on providing some exclusive cake ball content for my site, outside of my book, and here is the first installment. Yes, truth be told I had the Lemon Curd in the frig already, so I was ahead of the game, but what inspired me was not only that pastry kitchen staple, […]
These cake balls combine a basic yellow cake and lemon curd with fresh blueberries.
This is a buttery yellow cake, perfect for cake balls that need a fairly neutral flavor background.
Cassata is a classic Sicilian cake often combining a fairly simple sponge cake with fresh ricotta, candied orange peel, liqueur, and shavings of chocolate.
Cocoa, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, and ganache are all combined in one cake ball.
Need a chocolate cake in a hurry? No mixer is required
These are utterly exquisite, if I do say so myself. First you prepare a rich custard, as though you were making a crème brûlée. Once chilled, it is combined with white cake and rolled into balls. After chilling, the balls are dipped in a deeply golden caramelized sugar mixture. Stunning. This is what my pastry […]
This is a very easy frosting and probably the kind you loved when you were a child. It is the most commonly used in home baking and has that nostalgia factor. Confectioners’ sugar–based frostings require a bit of leeway. If the frosting is too thin, add a bit more confectioners’ sugar; if too thick, add […]
Use this white cake recipe as your foundation for any cake ball where you want to start with a tender, white cake base.
If you like chocolate and mint, you have two choices within this book. This cake ball recipe features white chocolate and red and white peppermint candy. You can adjust the strength of the mint filling easily by adding more or less of the peppermint flavoring. Makes about 48 golf ball–size balls 1/2 teaspoon peppermint flavoring, […]
Whether you call them rainbow sprinkles or jimmies (as I do here in New England), you are probably used to seeing these tiny sugar embellishments on top of ice cream cones or cupcakes as decoration. In recent years, they have become very popular baked into white cake batter to create a colorful, speckled effect. Here […]
If you are a fan of salty-sweet combinations, this is the perfect cake ball for you. The inside is moist milk chocolate brownie and milk chocolate ganache. Dip in your choice of chocolate (I use semisweet in the recipe) and then coat with a mixture of pretzels, potato chips, mini chocolate morsels, and caramel corn. […]
Bacon has found its footing in desserts recently, particularly when paired with chocolate. It seems to be part of the salty-sweet craze and works quite nicely with a hit of bourbon when combined with chocolate cake and a milk chocolate ganache. I used Four Roses Single Barrel bourbon while developing the recipe. Its long finish […]
These are cake “balls” in a heart shape, using a heart shaped cookie cutter to form them, so really you could use any cookie cutter you like to make your own