Cake Bites

Cake Bites

1 Boxed Cake Mix (your choice of flavor)
1 Tub of  Ready made Frosting (your choice of flavor)
1 lb. of Chocolate used to melt (I use Guittard Chocolate Apeels)


First you start with any kind of boxed cake mix that you would like to make.  Make the cake as directed on the package.  (Cake mixes can be jazzed up to be a little more dense by adding milk instead of water and melted butter instead of the oil.  Try it and see if you like the consistency).  For these little delicious gems, I make the cake as directed because I will be adding frosting later which makes these dense enough.

Bake the cake in a 9 x 13 pan.  After it has completely cooled, cut the cake into fourths.  Pick up two parts in your hands and rub them together over a large bowl.  You are basically making crumbs so do it however you want.  I read  in a magazine how Bakerella does it and she rubs the cake pieces together, so that's what I did. Pick up the other two pieces of the cake and do the same thing.

Once you have a bowlful of chocolate cake crumbs, add the tub of frosting and mix it all together.  It should look like the picture below once it is all mixed in.

Once you have all your cookies sheets filled up, place them in the freezer or refrigerator for 10 minutes.  This makes dipping much easier as the chocolate cools faster and the cake stays together better when cold.

Once the chocolate has set, you are ready to enjoy.  If you get white streaks in your chocolate it is because your chocolate was too hot when you started to dip.  I've been dipping all sorts of things for lots of years and I still get white streaks in my first attempts.  I usually dip in a smaller bowl and add chocolate from my melted bowl to keep the chocolate the right temperature.  The chocolate should be fairly thick and not hot to the touch.

Cake Bite suggestions: 

Chocolate Cake with mint extract added, mixed with chocolate frosting and dipped in Milk Chocolate.
Red Velvet Cake  mixed with Cream Cheese Frosting dipped in White Chocolate
Lemon Cake mixed with Lemon Frosting dipped in White Chocolate
Chocolate Cake mixed with Peanut Butter Frosting and dipped in Milk Chocolate
Cinnamon Cake mixed with a Butter Cream Frosting dipped in White Chocolate
Raspberry Lemonade Cake mixed with Raspberry Cream Cheese Frosting dipped in White Chocolate
Rainbow Chip Cake mixed with Rainbow Chip Frosting dipped in White chocolate.

Let your imagination fly!  There are so many possibilities.