Simple No Bake Purple Velvet Cake Balls

These enjoyable no bake crimson velvet cake balls mix crimson velvet cake with cream cheese in a scrumptious and decadent deal with that’s good for any vacation! These crimson velvet cake bites will probably be an enormous hit with each children and adults!

I really like miniature treats like Oreo truffles and sugar cookie bites.

I additionally love crimson velvet desserts like crimson velvet cake and crimson velvet cookies.

These crimson velvet cake balls are the proper mixture of each. Small little candy treats which have a tremendous crimson velvet cake taste that’s moist, wealthy, and scrumptious.

And whereas I’m sharing them for Valentine’s Day as a result of they make the proper Valentine’s Day deal with, you possibly can change the colour of the sprinkles or frosting on high and use these for any vacation you need.

Add crimson, white, and blue sprinkles (like on these 4th of July rice krispies), and so they’re nice for 4th of July. Add Christmas sprinkles, and guess what – you will have Christmas cake balls!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• No-bake recipe – whereas I like to recommend that you simply warmth deal with the cake combine and that may be completed within the oven, these don’t really require any baking. You may as well do it within the microwave or should you’re keen to threat it, by no means. Meaning, not like a variety of the crimson velvet cake pops or cake ball recipes on the market, you don’t have to attend for a cake to bake!
• Combine it up – need to take these this crimson velvet cake balls recipe and make them into cake pops? All you want are some lollipop sticks! Need to make totally different shapes like hearts or stars or no matter? Simply mould these crimson velvet treats into no matter you need them to be!
• Solely 3-ingredients – technically this recipe solely requires three components to make these no bake cake balls. If you wish to enhance them, you’ll want a number of extra issues like sprinkles and melting wafers (or chocolate) however these are only a bonus!

Substances

Ingredient Notes

• Purple velvet cake combine – I used Betty Crocker however just about any crimson velvet cake combine works. It must be a boxed cake combine although, not home made crimson velvet cake, since you’re not going to be really making the cake, simply utilizing the dry cake combine.
• Cream cheese – ensure you are utilizing full-fat cream cheese and that the cream cheese is softened to room temperature. If it’s nonetheless chilly or chilled, it received’t mix with the cake combine as properly. I do know some folks use cream cheese frosting, however I personally want the style of the true cream cheese.
• Vanilla melting wafers – I used white vanilla melting wafers however you might additionally use a high-quality white chocolate, white chocolate chips, white chocolate sweet melts, or Ghirardelli white chocolate melting wafers (my private desire – I simply didn’t have any readily available). You simply need some kind of white chocolate that may soften properly.
• Purple sweet melts – these are completely optionally available, I used them to brighten the cake balls after. They’ve a pleasant vivid shade, which I really like for Valentine’s Day! You could possibly use some other shade or sprinkles as an alternative. Or combine it up and do a bunch with sprinkles and a bunch with drizzled sweet melts.

The best way to Make Purple Velvet Cake Balls

These crimson velvet cake balls (or some folks would possibly name them crimson velvet cake truffles) aren’t exhausting to make, however they do take a little bit of time since you’re mixing, chilling, rolling, and dipping. And anytime you must roll and dip a bunch of little issues, it’s going to take some time.

That being mentioned – it’s completely price it as a result of these cake balls are scrumptious!

1 – Warmth Deal with the Cake Combine

Earlier than you employ the uncooked cake combine, it is advisable warmth deal with it to kill the micro organism that may be within the uncooked flour within the cake combine.

Preheat the oven to 350 levels. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and pour the dry cake combine onto the paper, spreading it out evenly on the baking sheet.

Bake for about 5 minutes within the preheated oven or till the cake combine reaches 165 levels.

You may as well do that within the microwave by including to a microwave protected bowl and cooking for 3 minutes, and stirring each 30 seconds to keep away from sizzling spots.

I personally want the oven as a result of I feel it’s simpler to verify it’s evenly heated and the entire cake combine has been warmth handled correctly, however you can too use the microwave.

2 – Make the Purple Velvet Combination

Whereas the cake combine is being warmth handled within the oven, whip the cream cheese in a medium bowl with a hand mixer till it’s a clean consistency. It ought to solely take one to 2 minutes on medium excessive pace so long as the cream cheese is already gentle.

If the cream cheese will not be gentle, it’ll take longer and sure not get fairly as clean.

As soon as the dry cake combine has cooled, add it into the whipped cream cheese and beat once more on medium excessive warmth with an electrical mixer (or you are able to do this in a stand mixer as properly).

Combine till the crimson velvet cake crumbs and cream cheese have blended collectively into nearly a cookie dough texture. If it is advisable, scrape the aspect of the bowl a few instances to verify all of it will get blended collectively.

Cowl the bowl and place it on the fridge for two hours. The dough will probably be simpler to type after it has chilled. In the event you attempt to roll it proper now, the combination will all simply keep on with your palms.

3 – Roll the Cake Balls

Subsequent, line a big baking sheet, two really, with a bit of parchment paper or wax paper.

Use a 1 1/2 tablespoon cookie scoop to get a portion of the cake ball dough and roll combination right into a ball. Place the ball onto the baking sheet.

Repeat, leaving somewhat area in between every little ball, till you’ve rolled out all of the balls.

Let the dough set at room temperature for quarter-hour. This may permit the dough to broaden somewhat and is the easiest way to stop cracking in future steps.

4 – Dip the Purple Velvet Cake Balls

Soften your white chocolate by both utilizing a double boiler on the range or by putting them into a big bowl that’s microwave protected and putting within the microwave for 30 seconds on excessive. As soon as the 30 seconds is up, stir, then place again within the microwave for an additional 30 seconds.

Repeat this till the white chocolate is totally melted.

If the bowl you’re utilizing isn’t very deep, switch the melted chocolate right into a container that’s deep with a large mouth (so you will have room to dip cake balls in and pull them out with out hitting the perimeters).

Dip every of the balls of dough into the melted wafers. The easiest way method to do that is to make use of put the ball of dough onto a fork then roll it round within the chocolate ensuring to coat the entire ball of dough.

Faucet any extra chocolate off on the high of the bowl then place again onto the parchment paper to permit the chocolate to harden.

5 – Enhance and Take pleasure in

In the event you’re planning so as to add sprinkles, add them whereas the white chocolate remains to be moist in order that they’ve one thing to stay to.

In the event you’re planning so as to add different colours of chocolate, you possibly can add these after the white chocolate has hardened fully. Soften them the identical method you melted the white chocolate after which you possibly can both simply drizzle on should you don’t care about appears to be like or add them to a piping bag to drizzle on somewhat extra fastidiously.

As soon as all of the cake balls are coated and adorned, let the white chocolate coating and the melted sweet coating (if utilizing) harden on the skin.

Serve at room temperature or you possibly can chill and serve chilled!

Knowledgeable Ideas & Storage Information

Make sure that so as to add the sprinkles earlier than the white chocolate coating hardens or the sprinkles received’t stick. I sometimes wish to dip one ball, add the sprinkles, then transfer onto the subsequent. Or the proper method to do that is definitely with a associate (my children love to assist) – you dip whereas the kiddos add sprinkles on high!

Retailer in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 5 days since these have uncooked cream cheese blended into the balls! In the event you’d want that they be served at room temperate (and never chilled), take them out about quarter-hour earlier than serving to permit them to thaw a bit earlier than serving.

Combine it up with the identical course of however totally different cake mixes and totally different goodies. Chocolate cake with darkish chocolate melting wafers is at all times a protected alternative and jogs my memory a bit of those chocolate truffles!

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Extra Scrumptious Desserts

In the event you want one other scrumptious dessert recipe to fulfill your candy tooth (or simply to get pleasure from with these crimson velvet cake balls), attempt one in all these! They’re good for a special day, or actually any day!

• Inexperienced velvet cupcakes – this scrumptious deal with has a enjoyable shock inside, and it’s not simply cocoa powder!
• Mini Fruit Tart – these mini treats begin with sugar cookie dough then get stuffed with plenty of scrumptious fruit!
• Home made nutter butters – home made peanut butter cookies get stuffed with a scrumptious peanut butter frosting that’s made with peanut butter, maple syrup, and a secret ingredient!
• Scorching chocolate cupcakes – chocolate cupcakes mixed with marshmallow and much more chocolate makes these a wealthy and decadent deal with!
• Dr Pepper cake – a scrumptious chocolate cake topped with chocolate fudge frosting and stuffed with Dr. Pepper taste!