Well... I thought that I'd start with something easy and fun! Aka- chocolate cake truffles. They're simple and delicious and in my opinion there's no better way to eat chocolate cake!
It all started the other day when I made a chocolate loaf cake. It was good, but I knew there was no possible way that it would ever get eaten up before it went dry. And of course no one likes to waste food. So I went on Google and looked up ways how to "re-use" chocolate cake, and what came up the most were chocolate cake truffles. I liked the idea, so I browsed through the recipes. There was just one problem- all the recipes called for a TUB of chocolate frosting. Well... the first problem was that you wont ever find store bought frosting in my house. The second problem was that it seemed like WAY too much sugar. But of course the idea was stuck in my head and now I wanted to make them. So I looked in my refrigerator and the Cool Whip caught my eye. I shrugged and decided that it was worth a try.
So here comes the fun part. I sliced off a chunk of cake, plunked it in a bowl, and crumbled it up. Then I opened the Cool Whip, grabbed a spoon, and scooped out a portion. Then I mixed the two together, rolled them into balls, and placed them on a wax lined sheet. I stuck the sheet in the fridge, and got busy melting chocolate. When the chocolate was melted I took the sheet out of the fridge, individually dunked the chocolate cake balls in the chocolate and placed them back on the sheet. Then at the very end I dusted the tops of them with some sprinkles.
Yeah I know- I didn't measure anything! I have a problem with that. Sometimes I just don't want to measure! Maybe it's me being rebellious. Who knows? Either way- I like to think that cooking isn't an exact science. Sometimes it's good to live dangerously and just eye-ball it. But with these I don't think you need to be too worried about measurements. The only thing you need to make sure of is that you have enough of a cake & Cool Whip ratio that it's moist enough to roll into balls.
But you should be happy about this- I did do measurements on the chocolate. Amazing huh? I melted one cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and 3 Tbsp butter. Of course the amount of chocolate you need will depend on how many truffles you make. I made 30 truffles and it was the perfect amount of chocolate.
So have fun and if you make them let me know how it goes!!!! I for one have a feeling that I'll be making more cakes in the future... just so that I can make these! :)
