{Carrot Cake-Cake Balls}

I've been wanting to try making the cake balls from Bakerella that everyone buzzes about around blogland for quite some time and today I finally did. With Easter around the corner, carrot cake came to mind, so I used carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.


Making these has been an all day event and I'm still not done with them all.

First you have to bake the cake and let it completely cool before you make the cake ball "batter". Then once you mix the cake and frosting, you have to let it chill for several hours in the fridge...and I found I had to put them back in the fridge after I rolled them into balls, because the second the started getting room temp, they became difficult to work with. I'm waiting for the other half to re-"chill" before I dip them.

I added tangerine jelly beans immediately after dipping them so they would stick and then piped little green tinted chocolate "carrot tops" on to make them look like carrots.

 

Not perfect, but they did come out pretty darn cute if I may say so.

I plan to hurry and package these all up and give them away before they slowly disappear in our household...If that happens, I have a feeling they will later be found on my hips!

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