Funfetti Cake Balls - Recovery Of An 'Oops!'

Kids honey everything funfetti!  Well, kids together with adults alike volition honey these little-bite Funfetti Cake Balls.

I convey a question.  What produce you lot produce when you lot commit to making a dessert for a friend for her family's beach trip, create upward one's hear to exam out a novel vanilla cupcake recipe, bake the cupcakes, together with they're absolutely terrible???  I hateful horrible.  Dry.  Not a lot of flavor.  H5N1 huge 'oops.'  And ... you lot don't convey a lot of fourth dimension to come upward up alongside something else?

Well, i alternative is to crumble upward all the cupcakes, stir inwards a bunch of vanilla buttercream together with a whole lot of rainbow sprinkles, together with brand funfetti cake balls.  And that's how these funfetti cake balls were born!

Fortunately, I had some xanthous candy melts inwards the pantry leftover from a previous cake popular adventure.  And I ever convey an assortment of sprinkles on paw ... you lot simply never know when you're going to involve them, right?  So I went to locomote turning the disappointingly failed cupcakes into fun together with pretty footling cake bites.

Not also bad a recovery of a huge 'oops,' right?!?  Hope they become over good alongside my friend's family!

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Funfetti Cake Balls
Source: Concept & procedure adapted from Bakerella
(Printable recipe)

Note:  This is simply a 'general' method, non actually a recipe ... every bit I was wingin' it the whole way!!
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Ingredients

• 1 baked 9x13" xanthous cake (or, inwards my case, a botched upward batch of cupcakes!)
• 1 to 1/12 c. vanilla frosting, canned or brand your own
• 1 (1 lb.) package vanilla candy melts, whatsoever color
• about two T. shortening
• Rainbow sprinkles
• Larger confetti/disc sprinkles for decorating

Directions

1. Crumble cake (or cupcakes) into a large bowl, working it into modest crumbs. Add frosting together with mix until good combined. Mix inwards rainbow sprinkles - I'm non certain how much I used; I simply kept pouring them inwards together with stirring until the mixture looked "confetti'ish."
2. Shape into to a greater extent than or less 1" balls, using most 1 T. of the cake mixture per ball; laid aside on wax paper. Cover alongside plastic roll together with refrigerate for most 1 hour, or identify inwards freezer for most fifteen minutes.
3. In a modest deep bowl, melt candy melts together with shortening together inwards the microwave per candy melt parcel directions (typically inwards thirty 2nd intervals, stirring inwards between).
4. Use a fork to dip each cake ball inwards the candy coating, letting excess coating drip off dorsum into the bowl. Place on wax paper. Immediately sprinkle alongside a few large disc/confetti sprinkles (or additional rainbow sprinkles).
5. Let correspond coating to laid up.

Enjoy!

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