Leftover Cakeballs

Sure, leftover cake is rare... but it happens! Here's how you can easily "restyle" that uneaten cake into a whole new, super-fun treat.

You'll Need:

• Any amount of leftover cake or cupcakes, with icing
• Chocolate bark / microwaveable chocolate coating
• Possibly some extra icing* depending on how heavily iced your leftover cake is.

* Here's the deal with the icing... If I were starting with a whole cake instead of leftovers, I would use an entire container of icing. You can use less, but keep in mind that the icing is a binding agent for cake crumbs.

1.  Your cake will probably already be iced (if it's leftover)... Mine wasn't iced yet because I made too many mini-cakes and didn't finish icing them. Either way, the cake needs to get completely crumbled and mixed with the icing until it forms a sort of paste.
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4. Chill the mixture in your fridge overnight.
5. Once the mixture is firm (think of cold cookie dough) scoop out about 1 Tbsp at a time -- I highly suggest using a cookie dough/melon baller, but you can do this by hand, too. A good size for your cakeballs will be about 1" diameter. Smaller than a ping pong ball.
6. Once the balls are all rolled, return them to the fridge in order to keep firm while working on the chocolate coating.  
7. I won't lie... the chocolate coating process is kind of a pain. Just try to have fun.
8. Line 9 x 13 baking dish (or cookie sheet) with foil.
9. Follow the instructions on the chocolate bark package to melt.
10. One at a time, gently drop each cake ball into the melted chocolate. Coat completely, and remove as quickly as possible. The cakeballs will start to fall apart as they get warm in the chocolate. Once removed from the chocolate, set each cakeball on the foil to cool.
11. When all of the cakeballs are coated, cover the dish (this is why I prefer the 9 x 13 dish - it's harder to cover a cookie sheet without touching the melted chocolate) and refrigerate again.
12. If you want to decorate with sprinkles, do so before refrigerating... obviously... :) Since my leftover cake was carrot cake, I used white chocolate and decorated them with currants.
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14. To store them, I recommend keeping the cakeballs somewhere cool.
15. Enjoy... yum yum!