After making the Hidden Heart Cake from my last blog post, I had a lot of leftover cake lying around. Cake pops are of course an option when you have leftover cake, but I am not great at getting them to balance on the sticks so I figured Cake Truffles was my safest option. I called them Pink Velvet because the leftover cake I used was pink, and they contain cream cheese, but you can use any type of leftover cake to make these tasty treats!
I started by using a food processor to turn my leftover cake into crumbs. I had about 400g cake. It doesn't matter how much cake you have, you just need approx half the amount of cream cheese.
I needed 190g cream cheese to get my cake to a stage where if I rolled it into a ball it stuck together. I recommend using full fat cream cheese, it just tastes better!
I rolled all the cake into balls using my hands and placed them onto a lined baking tray. I then put them in the freezer for about an hour. I got 24 truffles exactly from the mixture.
I melted 250g white chocolate (this covered 16 of the truffles). I also melted 125g dark chocolate for the remaining 8 truffles.
I removed the truffles from the freezer and dipped them into the chocolate and coated them using two forks to balance them. I placed them onto some greaseproof paper and placed a single heart sprinkle on each one. I left them to set.
I loved the final effect and I thought they looked really pretty! I also found them a lot easier to handle and less messy to dip in chocolate than regular chocolate based truffles.
Inside the truffles is a delicious moist center. I mean, cream cheese and cake mixed together, is that ever not going to be good?! It's dangerously easy to eat several of these in one sitting!
I am entering these into myself and Cakeyboi's monthly baking challenge, Treat Petite. This month's theme is 'Love Is In The Air'.
I'm also entering them into Fab Food 4 All and Fuss Free Flavours monthly challenge Credit Crunch Munch, this month hosted by Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary, as I used leftover cake to make this recipe.