Nutty Amaretto Cake Balls!

Hey there all you Junkettes! Guess what? Yesterday we reached our 300th view! Wahooo!!! I couldn't be happier and so in honor of that I am celebrating with a nice twist on a new favorite, the cake ball. Oh, the cake ball... so little, so sweet, so succulent. My best friend Kaci introduced me to these and even helped my Hubster and I roll, coat and wrap 250 of these little beauties for our wedding. Our guests loved them and I know you will too!

You'll need:

1 box chocolate cake mix
1 can chocolate icing
1/4-1/2 cup amaretto liqueur
1/2 cup chopped or finely chopped nuts
2 packages candy coating or almond bark
Eggs*
Oil*
Water*



Preheat your oven to the temperature required for your cake mix, the eggs, oil and water are usually needed for every cake mix. But seeing as how every box is different I won't put specific measurements.
Prepare your batter as indicated on the back of the box, EXCEPT replace 1/4 a cup of water with 1/4 a cup of amaretto liqueur.

After it's all baked take it out of the oven and be sure it's thoroughly cooled all the way. Even if you have to refrigerate it overnight. You do not want to deal with the gloppy mess that is warm cake and icing. Next, crumble the cake into very fine pieces and almost resembles potting soil dirt. After it's good and crumbled add in the icing. I used one whole can of the chocolate icing to one box of cake mix.

You might have to get your hands dirty for this next part and don't be afraid to either! Mix the cake mix until it's sticky and you're able to mold it into balls. Using a tablespoon scoop out and shape into balls. Once they are all shaped and ready to go, put them in the freezer for 1 hour. so they can be nice and firm when you put them in the hot coating.

Finally, after they've cooled for the hour, melt your candy coating or almond bark and dip them one by one into the coating. Coating the top and all sides scoop them out and shake them from your spoon onto a nice piece of parchment paper and immediately toss a few pecans on top. Let them cool before you take them off the paper and remove any excess bark from the bottom of the ball.

Kaci does a way better job with these than I ever could. But they are fun to make and eat and even more fun to share! Thanks again to everyone for being the best fans ever! Here's to another 300 views!




Happy Eating!