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No Bake Vanilla Cake Batter Chocolate Truffles

by Averie Sunshine on April 3, 2011

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If you like:

cake batter

chocolate

no-bake recipes

5-ingredient recipes

…Then this one’s for you.

And if you don’t like those things, you’re reading the wrong blog.

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No Bake Vanilla Cake Batter Chocolate Truffles

1 c vanilla cake mix

1/4 c sweetened condensed milk

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 tbsp agave (optional and you can just use all sweetened condensed milk if you don’t have agave on hand)

1.5 to 2 c chocolate chips

Yields: 20 to 30 truffles depending on size preference. Store in refrigerator or freezer.

Directions: In a mixing bowl combine all ingredients, except chocolate chips, and stir to combine.

This mixture should be quite solid and not runny, but not so dry that you can’t mold it into balls. If you find that your mixture is a little too runny, add a touch more cake mix. If it’s a little too dry, add more sweetened condensed milk/agave. I ended up using about 1.25 c of cake mix to get the perfect consistency.

After you’ve made the dough, refrigerate or freeze for 15 minutes and then remove and roll into balls.

After the balls have been made, refrigerate or freeze for 15 minutes minutes or until well-chilled, ensuring the melted chocolate will adhere and set up properly.

Melt the chocolate chips, and dip the chilled cake batter balls into melted chocolate. Using parchment paper is a tip I’d recommend when working with melted chocolate. Place truffles in freezer or fridge to set up.

Edited to add:

Use GF cake mix to make this recipe Gluten Free.

For those avoiding traditional sweetened condensed milk, use homemade nut/seed milk such as cashew or hemp that you make very thick and sweeten with agave. Full fat coconut milk, sweetened with agave, may also work There are also recipes for vegan sweetened condensed milk floating around. Make sure that the “milk” you use is thick enough so the cake batter sticks/holds together and is sweet enough to replicate traditional sweetened condensed milk.

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The Process:

Stir all ingredients together except for chocolate chips. This is what my dough looked like, and then I put it in the freezer for 15 minutes.

Remove Dough from freezer & Roll into balls

I recommend rolling these balls much smaller than you think they should be because once you dip them in chocolate, they almost double in size. The end result should be a truffle and bite-sized. You don’t necessarily want to be biting into a golf ball sized truffle. So start with small balls.

Dip balls into melted chocolate and allow to set up in freezer.

Try not to eat them all at once.

They satisfy the craving for cake batter and chocolate, all in one.

Nothing is “too rich” for me.

These are not too rich but they are definitely rich. Sugar and fat has that effect, and boy, it’s wonderful.

Impress your friends with these. No wait, just impress yourself by making them. You’ll be happy you did.

The truffles are a similar concept to Chocolate Covered Oreo Balls, and you won’t be sorry to make those, either.

From my last post about Gray, it was fun to hear who likes gray, and who doesn’t. And also who likes Coffee-Mate. I knew I wasn’t alone.

Questions:

1. Best thing you’ve eaten or done so far this weekend?

I still stand by my answer yesterday in #1 about how my fall gave me lots of perspective and reaffirmed certain things for me. So in that sense there was a silver lining. I am trying to find some benefit to falling.

2. Do you like truffles? Do you like cake batter?

I recently reviewed some truffles I was sent in the mail. I’ll be bold and say these homemade truffles will stack up to any fancy storeboughts. And they are far cheaper to make.

As a kid, I used to live to lick cake batter off the beaters when my mom was making cake. I also can just eat raw cookie dough and be perfectly happy, too. Cake batter, cookie dough, it’s all good.

3. Next dessert you want to see me make?

Suggestions please!

P.S. If you’re just catching up on posts, here are mine since Friday: