No-Bake Cake Balls

Liam and I frequent Starbucks mostly due to his cake pop love.  I keep wanting to make him soemthing similar at home, so my mom found this recipe and sent it to me to play with.  They turned out VERY delicious.  Tasted a lot like cookie dough in chocolate.  In the future I would use a bit less flour since they were a tad bit crumbly and cut the white chocolate with cream or frosting.  It was a humongous sticky mess to coat the balls in JUST white chocolate.  Very yummy though.

Ingredients: (makes about 14-20 balls depending on how you roll them)
1/2 Cup Butter (1 stick, softened)
1/2 Cup White Sugar
1 Cup Vanilla Cake Mix
1 1/2 Cup Flout (Start with just 1 Cup and add in as you need)
pinch of salt
2 tsp Vanilla extract
1/4 Cup Milk
6-8 oz white chocolate (again you may want to add in some milk or cream or even some frosting (homemade or store bought) to keep it from being quite so sticky)
Sprinkles

Directions:
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and coat a wire rack with non-stick spray.

Mix all ingredients except the chocolate and sprinkles and roll into balls that are about 1 inch in diameter.  Set the balls on the cookie sheer and chill in the fridge for about 15 minutes.

Melt chocolate and stir until smooth.  Dip each ball into the chocolate, coating completely and set on rack.  Top with sprinkles and chill all balls in the fridge until set. 

Serve and enjoy!  They taste amazing with milk.

Soften the butter

Add in the sugar

Add in the flour

Add all ingredients except for the chocolate and sprinkles

Mix until starting to crumble

Roll into balls and set on cookie sheet to be chilled

Dip the balls into the chocolate

Top with sprinkles and set on drying rack to be chilled

Pumpkin Tiramisu

The delicious winning dessert from the December votes.  It turned out excellent!  

Ingredients:

1 14 oz can Pumpkin Pie

1 pack Cream Cheese (softened)

3/4 Cup Brown Sugar

1 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice

2 Cups Heavy Cream

1/3 Cup Granulated Sugar

1 tsp Almond Extract

1 Cup Orange Spice tea (brewed with 1 teabag and chilled)

1/2 Cup Orange Juice

24 Lady Fingers

Directions:

Mix pumpkin, cream cheese, brown sugar, and pumpkin pie spice.

In a separate bowl use a hand mixer to mix heavy cream, sugar and almond until medium peaks are formed.  Fold 3/4 of the whipped cream into the pumpkin mixture.

In a small bowl combine the tea and orange juice.  

Slice lady fingers in half and dip 2 halves in to the tea mixture and place in a single layer in bottom of the dessert glass.  Top with a thin layer of the pumpkin mixture.  Add more lady fingers dipped in the tea mixture either 2 or 4  depending on the glass to lay a single layer down.  Top with pumpkin mixture and repeat until you hit the top of the glass.  Top with a dollop of whipped cream.  Garnish with 2 lady finger halves. 

Mix pumpkin mixture

My sous chef helping blend

Mix the whipped cream until peaks form

The best part of cooking is tasting the beaters

Fold 3/4 of the whipped cream into the pumpkin mixture

My sous chef posing

Mix the tea and orange juice together

Dip the ladyfingers in the tea mixture and place in dessert glasses

Top with pumpkin mixture

Dip more ladyfinger halves in the glass and place on top of the pumpkin mixture

Add another layer of pumpkin mixture

Add tea soaked ladyfingers

Top off with pumpkin mixture

Top with whipped cream and add 2 ladyfinger halves

Serve & Enjoy

To view the other winning desserts go to:

Caramelized Banana Pudding

Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake

Apple Raspberry Crumble