Step One is baking an easy cake from a store-bought package of mix, letting it cool for about 40 minutes, and crumbling it up in a bowl.
Step Two is dumping most of a can of (again, store-bought) frosting into the cake crumbles and mixing it all together. I first did this with a spatula, then with a fork. If you're thinking this is gross, it definitely looks it at this stage.
This is what the beginning of your (many) dirty dishes involved in this endeavor looks like:
Step Three is refrigerating it for about 10 minutes (or longer -- in my case, I got impatient and did not want to be up all night doing this, so that's why the refrigeration was quick ... some people suggest hours, but I think that's bollocks) and then rolling the gooey mess into balls (thus the name "cake balls"):
Step Four is a pretty necessary one -- you need to freeze these little guys for at least an hour. It makes it easier for when you dip them into melted chocolate.
Step Five you can do just before you're ready to take the balls out of the freezer (haha): melt some chocolate! I just melted a bag of milk chocolate chips over the stove (well, you should do the "double boiler" method so as not to burn them -- I just took a little sauce pan and heated some water over low-medium heat, and had this little pan of chocolate chips resting inside of it and melting away):
Now comes the fun/messy/frustrating (but creative!) part ...
Step Six is taking yourself to a calm, peaceful place before you pain-stakingly try to dip these little balls into your melted chocolate using toothpicks to help get them all doused, out, and resting on a cookie sheet of wax paper (if you have a better method, please do share!!). Obviously, I used chocolate everything for these cake balls, but you can use melted white chocolate, different cake mix, coconut on top (as you can see, I used sprinkles), whatever you want!!
Here they are as I'm dipping and sprinkling them. Note that if you want them to have decorations, like sprinkles or something, you have to adorn them immediately after dipping them -- the chocolate hardens really quickly 'cause the balls are so cold (hehe).
Step Seven is, after you got all your balls ready, putting them in the fridge to set. I left them there over night, and they were perfect.
(Don't judge my fridge, haha.)
And, lastly, you can put them in paper truffle cups or cupcake cups -- mine were all a little too big for BOTH sizes, but I managed to squeeze them in there anyway.
They are quite delicious! I somehow restrained myself from eating any in-progress cake balls while I was making them, but now that they're all finished, I indulged, and they do not disappoint! Next I'd like to try experimenting with HEALTHIER options, 'cause I know Betty Crocker and Pilsbury cake ingredients are not the healthiest ... haha.
