Red Velvet Cake Balls

I've been meaning to try making cake balls/cake pops for a long time now, but don't seem to have any cake leftovers. Recently i baked some red/pink velvet for my office's pot luck, and managed to have some cake leftovers, and decided to freeze them purposely for this project. :)

Red Velvet Cake Balls inspired by Bakerella
Preparation time: 30 minutes (minus the chilling time)
Baking time : None :)
Yields: almost 100 small balls (I used a 1/2 tsp measuring spoon to measure the cake balls)

All you need is a recipe of red velvet cake, a recipe of cream cheese frosting and chocolates for cover. Easy Peasy recipe. Lets start!

First, crush the cake into fine crumbles. If you have a mixer, just blitz it for a few minutes. I just used my hands (which are covered with plastic gloves. IMPORTANT).

Next, add the chilled cream cheese frosting into the cake crumbles, and mix well.

Then, roll the cake mixture into balls, size is according to your liking.

Next, chill the cake balls for at least 2 hours.

For the outer cover, melt dark/milk chocolate bars using double boiler method. Dip the balls into the melted chocolates, and decorate with tiny hearts or sprinkles. Chill again at least for 2 hours.

Taddaa!!. Ready for consuming :)

Taste: I used milk choc to cover the cake balls, so it turn up to be a bit too sweet for me. Next time, I'll use dark choc. Otherwise, it's goooood :)

Pink Velvet Cuppies

 Selamat Hari Raya!

I'm in still in my raya mood, eventhough I had to get back to work on the 6th day of Raya..Booo. Well. at least I had a great time celebrating Eid with my family. Hope it was great for everyone else too :)
Anyway, it has been a week after my Eid holidays, and my office planned a Pot Luck for Eid. I'm not much of a cook, so I opted to bring desserts.

I used the same recipe as the Red Velvet Cake, but since I'm out of red food colouring, I used pink food colouring instead, hence the name, Pink Velvet cuppies. I doubled the recipe and managed to get about 35 pcs of medium size cuppies (2.5" souffle cups)

Since the the recipe for the cake you can get it from here, I just want to share the recipe for the frosting. It claims to be a pipeable cream cheese frosting and it is easy to make.

Pipeable Cream Cheese Frosting adapted from ThePinkWhisk

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Yields enough frosting to cover about 32 cupcakes

Ingredients:
70 g of butter,soften
250 g cream cheese, cold
200 g icing sugar, sifted (use less if you don't like it too sweet)

Steps:
1. Cream butter and a tablespoon of icing sugar until fluffy and light.

2. Add the cold cream cheese, and mix well. Make sure you don't overbeat the cream cheese, since it will turn runny if beaten too long.

3. Tadaaaaa!

I personally love this recipe, and planned to make swirls as topping for the cuppies, but since my piping skills are crappy, i just spread the frosting with a spatula and decorate with sugar hearts. 

Pack and ready to go!

Here are a few photos from the pot luck. I had fun, and am very very full afterward. 

Food Galore!

Pink Velvet in action! These were gone in a jiffy :P

Me and my colleagues

Till next time,
Happy trying!

Love,
eL

Sardine Puffs

 Salam,
I know I've been lacking in updating this blog, some things came up, and I couldn't find the time to bake anything.

Anyway, we are going into the last week of Ramadhan. Oh my, time sure do fly really fast. I managed to break fast a few times back home in Kota Seriemas, and at my FMIL's house in Kulim. This weekend is actually the first weekend I spend in Kg Wai for Ramadhan.

I've been meaning to bake chocolate tarts today, however, I'm out of flour, so I'll end up making these sardine puffs. This recipe is my own, and I used a ready made puff pastry. It is so easy, and so fast to make too :)

Sardine Puffs

Difficulty level: Super Easy
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Baking time: 20 minutes
Yields : 10 puffs

Ingredients:

1 whole large onion - chopped
1 clove of garlic - chooped
1 red chilli (put more if you like it spicier) - chopped
2 can of Sardines
1 tbsp lime juice
salt to season
1 packet of ready made puff pastry

Steps:
1. Saute the chopped onion, garlic and red chilli until it turned soft and brown.

2. Add in the sardine fillet, without the tomato sauce. Mashed the sardine fillet with the back of a spoon of a fork.

3. Add in lime juice. Cook for about 5 minutes.

Assembling the puffs
1. Take a piece of puff pastry

2. Spoon in the fillings in the middle

3. Brush the edge of the pastry with egg white
4. Fold into triangle, and pinch the edge together. Take a fork, and press into the edge

5. Transfer into baking tray, and brush the top with egg yolk.

6. Bake at 160C for 20 minutes

Taste: Crispy! However, I think the pastry add some saltiness to the whole puff, so make sure the fillings is not so salty. :)

Happy trying

Love,
eL