This is so easy it's just about silly. Bake the cake according to the package directions. Remove from the oven when done and let sit out to cool. When the cake is cooled, crumble it in a large mixing bowl using a fork or your fingers. To the cake crumbs add 1 carton of ready-made icing and mix until thoroughly combined. Roll the mixture into bite sized balls. Place in the refrigerator or freezer to cool.
Melt the chocolate coating in the microwave or in a double boiler until it is fluid. Dip each cooled cake ball in the coating and place on tin foil or parchment paper to set. It should take an entire package of coating.
When the cake ball coating is set, you can melt another little bit of different colored coating in a plastic bag. Snip the corner off the bag and drizzle over the cake balls.
NOW...the fun part. There are dozens of things you can do. I toasted some pecans, chopped them fine and mixed them with the cake and icing mixture. You can use any flavor cake mix - use your imagination - Red Velvet cake mix and cream cheese icing, German Chocolate cake mix with coconut pecan icing, yellow cake mix with a shot of rum or rum flavoring, toasted coconut and caramel icing. Coating wafers in just about any color can be found at Michael's or Hobby Lobby. They can be decorated with frosting gels or put on a sucker stick.
It was easier for me to drop each cake ball in the coating, spoon the coating on it, and spear it with a bamboo skewer to remove it to the tin foil. Be sure to scrape the bottom off a little so the coating won't puddle aroung the bottom as it sits. You don't have to use the confectioner's coating - any kind of chocolate will do.
My cake balls cost : cake mix ($.79), 3 eggs ($.20), canned frosting ($1.19) and chocolate coating ($1.75) for a total of $3.93 or about $.16 each. I made large cake balls and got 24. One is a satisfying serving. These would be a nice gift placed in fluted paper cups and put in a pretty box.
Yay for portable cake and icing!
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