Cake Bites!

I am a food blogger.

...in my head.

In reality I am not.

I am too impatient, simple minded, and forgetful to be a real food blogger.

But sometimes I make delicious things, and feel the need to blog about them. 

This is one of those times.

In the following post you will have the opportunity to see exactly why I am not a food blogger.

Here we go...

Cake Bites!

Deliciously evil little creatures.

This is how you I make them:

1. Bake a cake. Any cake will do. 

Because I like to keep things easy and simple I bought a chocolate cake mix and cooked it. In my head I think homemade texas fudge cake, red velvet or coconut buttercream would be delicious. In reality, I have two boys who want my attention.

(note that I only have a picture of the finished cake. A real food blogger would have a picture of every ingredient being added)

2. Grab some delicious frosting. One that will mesh well with the cake.

Once again, I like things simple: thus, the store bought frosting. I'm sure homemade buttercream or fudge frosting would be so much better.

3. Scoop out the baked cake into a large bowl. Scoop out the frosting and dump it on the cake in the bowl. Mix well. Very well. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour up to overnight. 

(if you're chilling overnight, cover in plastic wrap and press the plastic onto the dough to help prevent drying out) 

4. Scoop out small amounts and roll into perfect, uniform, little balls. They must all be exactly the same size and shape. Let me know when you're done. I'll be halfway to Florida already...

Look! Picture #2!

I, obviously, have better things to do with my time than make perfect, uniform, little balls. 

Plug for my husband: Usually he is my "Goose" with cake bites. I whip them up, he rolls and shapes the balls, I dip them. We're a great team. This time he was at school and I was alone. I now realize why he always started out making good, cute, uniform, little balls and by the end they were more lopsided, large, and, well, not so cute. I will probably never tell him again "can you please make them smaller? They keep getting bigger and bigger!" because really you get sick of rolling all that dough, and your hands get covered in gooey chocolate, and it's just a trial of patience all the way around.

...except when you get to lick the chocolate off your hands.

....or sneak a few chunks bites of dough.

...or scrape the bowl with a spoon at the end

Not that I did any of those things.

moving on.

5. Chill the rolled dough balls in the freezer for an hour or so. 

6. Melt some chocolate. Almond Bark is by far the absolute best for melting and dipping.

We prefer the vanilla flavor.

7. Poke a poker, knife, tooth pick, or stick, into each ball and dip it in the chocolate. 

Remember my forgetfulness? I have no picture of the dipping stage. Or freezing stage. Or chilling stage. Or melting stage. Or beautiful display stage. 

This, in fact, is my last picture of this whole process. And as you can tell, this was way after I had finished making and serving these evil treats, because there are only 12 left. 

I may or may not have taken this picture at 10:30 pm...

Please be kind and share some with neighbors, friends, missionaries, and other people. Because if you don't, it's very possible to consume the entire batch single-handedly in one sitting.

And I wouldn't wish that for you.

In conclusion, I am not a food blogger. But, I just told you how to make cake bites. The simple way. If you want a more complex way to do it, jump on over to Bakerella and see how it's really done.

The end. Good day. I need to clean my house now.

1. Bake a box of cake mix.

2. Add a can of frosting. Mix well. Chill

3. Shape into balls. Freeze.

4. Dip into melted Almond Bark.

5. Enjoy.