~ Emma Donaghue, Room
I have written much about food before. I am obsessed, and read cookbooks cover to cover. I get inspiration from many places, and yet I am a lost cause when it comes to following them, or worse, when it comes to conveying something I've invented. When someone happens to try something I've made, and asks for the recipe, I can't provide it in finite terms.
I fell in love with this particular cake some months ago, and have relied on it for every occasion calling for a dessert. Recently, after having excitedly made it for a gathering, I ended up with several pieces on hand. Admittedly, I'm not much of a sweets person...and neither is Merrill...but I thought I'd try to make the cake fun for her....and easier to eat. Fun for her, less mess for me. Enter the cake balls.
This is so damn simple, especially with cake that is a few days old and has ample frosting (which ALL of mine do). Simply mash the cake in a bowl and then roll it into ball shape. With these, I added a topping of melted chocolate on top...but they genuinely don't need the additional sweetness, with the frosting and cake mixed together. Bite sized pieces of cake and frosting...what more could you want? This works with any type of cake...I've done red velvet rolled in pink sprinkles (perfect for Valentine's Day), vanilla with chocolate frosting (kind of a marble effect), confetti cake for birthdays, etc...they are so versatile and SO damn easy. Additionally, if you don't have a premade cake, simply bake the cake, let it cool ever so slightly and crumble it, and then stir frosting into crumbled cake before rolling it into balls. You can also put them onto wooden popsicle sticks to make a cake lollipop.
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