Bakerella Wanna Be

I was itching to try another one of Bakerella's creations for my very own, so last weekend, I made her "Better Bites", and it was so fun. So - in Bakerella fashion, I am going to show you all how they turned out.

Step 1 - Bake a cake, any flavor (I chose the Red Velvet), and cool completely.

Step 2. Crumble up "finely", and add 1 can of Cream Cheese frosting

This is what it looks like when completely mixed up.

Step 3. Roll into quarter size balls (messy, very messy), and place on waxed paper. Freeze for at least 30 minutes to make them firm.

Step 4. Oops - no picture (I'm still learning). Melt chocolate and mostly fill candy mold (I used a mini cupcake chocolate mold like you'd make Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in), and place cupcake ball in mold. Press down carefully until the force causes the chocolate to push up and fill in around the sides of the ball. I used a sqeeze bottle and filled in around the molds that hadn't been filled enough. Place filled mold tray in freezer for a few minutes to let the chocolate set. Remove and gently pull up on the cake ball to release it from the mold - you can see these on the cooling rack in back of the colored chocolate cups below.

Step 5. Melt several different colors of chocolate (such as above), and holding the bottom of the cupcake, dip the top in one of the colors of melted chocolate and decorate.

Step 6. Oops - missing another picture (see, I'm still learning) of the finished product, but maybe you can see some of them in the upper left corner of this picture.

Step 7. Find some willing "guinea kids" to try them out. I think they liked them. I took them down to FHE on Sunday night and they were gone in a flash (just ask little Sadie Mae!) with everyone asking for more information about them. So here you go - and thanks Bakerella! It was fun, they weren't hard.

For more professional instruction - please check out Bakerella's blog on my sidebar.