How To Make Chocolate Balls From Leftover Cake

Got leftover cake? Enjoyed right away or stored in the freezer for a later date, Leftover Cake Cake Balls are a handy and delicious way to repurpose leftover cake.

Leftover Cake Cake balls are a delicious way to make sure no scrumptious birthday cake goes to waste! Same cake flavor all rolled up and smothered in a chocolate coating. All you need is cake, your stand mixer, and a package of candy melts. Enjoy these cake bites now or store in the freezer for an emergency sweet tooth situation.

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Vanilla cake, red velvet cake, birthday cake–these cake balls make leftovers new again. You can use cake pop sticks and turn them into cake pops, or eat them as is like we do. They have such a satisfying texture. Like little cake truffles. And the kids LOVE them.

What To Do With Leftover Cake: 12 Delicious Recipes

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Cakes with buttercream icing work best for this recipe, but you can do this with cream cheese frosting cakes as well. It’s just a little less sticky. As for cake, you can use from-scratch cakes, store-bought or box cake mix cakes. They’ll all be delicious!

Melting candy wafers usually takes 1 to 2 minutes. I recommend stirring every 30 seconds until melted and smooth. Be sure not to over-melt the candy coating. It will burn and become too thick to stir and coat the cake balls evenly.

Three Ingredient Leftover Cake Truffles

I hope you love these Leftover Cake Cake Balls as much as I do. When you make them, be sure to snap a picture and tag me on Instagram @so I can see! 😍 I just love seeing how inspired and creative y’all get with the recipes I share. Enjoy!

Enjoy right away or store in the freezer for a later date, Leftover Cake Cake Balls are a handy and delicious way to repurpose leftover cake.

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Christmas Cake Balls

Use a food processor to turn your leftover cake into crumbs. (The cake I used was a vanilla cake with pink food colouring!)

Mix the cream cheese into the cake crumbs. The roll the cake into balls using your hands (you can weigh them for accuracy if you like) and place them onto a lined baking tray. Put them in the freezer for at least 1 hour.

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To decorate, melt white and dark chocolate. Remove the truffles from the freezer, dip them into the chocolate and fully coat them. Place them onto some greaseproof paper and drizzle the alternating chocolate over them. Then leave them to set.

Chocolate Cake Pops

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It doesn't matter how much leftover cake you have, you just need to half the amount it weighs to get the weight of your cream cheese!

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Calories: 169 kcal | Carbohydrates: 19 g | Protein: 3 g | Fat: 9 g | Saturated Fat: 5 g | Trans Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 28 mg | Sodium: 125 mg | Potassium: 111 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 13 g | Vitamin A: 144 IU | Vitamin C: 1 mg | Calcium: 41 mg | Iron: 2 mg

Triple Chocolate Fudge Cake Truffles Recipe

Use a food processor to turn your leftover cake into crumbs. (The cake I used was a vanilla cake with pink food colouring!)

Mix the cream cheese into the cake crumbs. The roll the cake into balls using your hands (you can weigh them for accuracy if you like) and place them onto a lined baking tray. Put them in the freezer for at least 1 hour.

Three

To decorate, melt white and dark chocolate. Remove the truffles from the freezer, dip them into the chocolate and fully coat them. Place them onto some greaseproof paper and drizzle the alternating chocolate over them. Then leave them to set.

Chocolate Cake Pops

*I earn a small amount of money if you buy the products after clicking on the links. You will not be charged anything extra for this. Thank you for supporting The Baking Explorer!

It doesn't matter how much leftover cake you have, you just need to half the amount it weighs to get the weight of your cream cheese!

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Calories: 169 kcal | Carbohydrates: 19 g | Protein: 3 g | Fat: 9 g | Saturated Fat: 5 g | Trans Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 28 mg | Sodium: 125 mg | Potassium: 111 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 13 g | Vitamin A: 144 IU | Vitamin C: 1 mg | Calcium: 41 mg | Iron: 2 mg

Triple Chocolate Fudge Cake Truffles Recipe