Cake Bon Bons Recipe
Ingredients
Cake
Frosting
Toppings
Ganache:
2 ¼ C chocolate chips
1 ¼ C heavy whipping cream
Directions
Mix any cake of your choice. You can use a box mix or your own from scratch. You can use chocolate, yellow, marble, red velvet, whatever you want. Bake the cake in a 9 x 13 pan. Let the cake cool.
When the cake is cool, pull the cake apart and put it in a mixing bowl. Add some frosting. You could use store bought frosting or your own from scratch. You can use white, chocolate, cream cheese frosting or whatever you want. I have included the recipe for ganache, which is the chocolate frosting we use, see below for how to make. Add the frosting to the cake and mix until it is moist and you can roll it in a ball that holds together.
Scoop the cake mixture. We use a small ice cream scoop. You can use whatever you have around to make the cake bon bons the size you want. Or you could use your hands to roll them in a ball. Put them on a cookie sheet.
Put the cake bon bons in the refrigerator to harden, about 20 minutes. When they are hard enough to handle start dipping! We dip our bon bons in ganache. Before they dry, put some toppings on (this happens fast)! You can use colored sprinkles, non-pareils, or pipe decorations on them. Let them harden. Eat and enjoy! Store bon bons in the fridge.
To make ganache: Put the chocolate chips and heavy whipping cream in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high for 1 minute and stir. Repeat until the chocolate chips are melted, about 4 minutes. The ganache will harden, if you make in advance you can put it back in the microwave for about 30 seconds and stir and microwave again, if you need to, to get the ganache to a consistency you can work with. When you are done, cover and store the ganache on the counter.
