Chocolate Balls Dipped in Chocolate Sauce

Prep time: 20 mins Cook time (including chilling): 2 hours Total time: 2 hours 20 mins

Ingredients

I usually use leftover cake to make chocolate balls, but if you don’t have any you can bake a cake and make them!

Cake

1 ½ cups flour

½ cup sugar

3/4 cups black cocoa

½ tablespoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

2 eggs

¾ cups buttermilk

¾ cups hot water

¼ cup oil

¼ cup cocoa (for decoration)

Frosting

Use any store-bought chocolate frosting or use any one of my recipes

Chocolate Sauce

You can use store bought chocolate sauce, or use one of my recipes 

Equipment

Measuring cups and spoons

Large bowl

Electric handheld whisk

8 inch / 20 cm cake pan lined with parchment paper

Spatula or knife

Large spoon

Medium bowl

Small bowl

Baking Sheet (enough for about 20 chocolate balls), lined with a baking sheet

Sieve

How To 

Preheat your over to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, 176 degrees Celsius.

Mix all the dry ingredients. Then add the wet ingredients and mix with a handheld electric whisk. Pour into an 8 inch cake pan and bake for 25-30 mins. 

Test if the cake is baked by inserting a toothpick and it should come out clean. Remove the cake from the oven and leave it in the cake pan for about 5 minutes to cool slightly. Then remove and let it cool completely on a wire rack.

Once the cake is completely cooled, in a medium bowl, crumble the cake into crumbs.

Add about 3-4 tablespoons of chocolate buttercream frosting and fold it in with a large spoon until well combined.

Take about a tablespoon full, and form balls from the mixture and place on the baking sheet. You should make about twenty chocolate balls. Chill in the fridge for two hours minimum or in the freezer for 30 minutes.

Remove from the fridge and insert a toothpick into each chocolate ball.

Place the chocolate sauce in a small bowl. Dip the chocolate ball into the chocolate sauce. Hold the chocolate ball over the bowl for a few seconds to let any excess sauce drip off. Place on the serving plate. Repeat until you finish all the chocolate balls.