Cake Ball Adventures #1

With all the talk about cake balls and cake pops, I decided I wanted to try and make some.  Here was the disastrous result of my first try. 

Baking and rolling out the cake was the easy part. 
First you bake a 9x13 cake as you normally would.  It can be homemade or a box mix.  It does not matter. 
After letting the cake cool completely, I crumble the cake into a one gallon zip top bag. 
Next, add about a cup of icing, homemade or the canned stuff from the grocery store is fine. 
Mix thoroughly.  I usually get as much air out of the bag as possible, and then knead it. 
Using a small ice cream scooper, I scoop out enough cake and icing mixture to make a quarter size ball. 
Roll it up.  Set on wax paper on a pan or cookie sheet. 
I place my balls into the freezer until firm.  This is where it got a little crazy for me. 

For the coating, you need to use melted candy.  What you see is not icing.  Icing does not harden they way candy melts do.  I was using regular white chocolate chips for this project. Little did I know, they do not melt as smoothly as candy melts do.   They also need to be tempered.  You are suppose to be able to dip the ball into the melted candy in one motion.  Yeah, not so much for me.  As you can see below, the candy was not very smooth as all.  However, they did taste quite delicious!