These little bites of heaven are made from red velvet cake and cream cheese icing rolled together and then dipped in white chocolate. Perfect gift for Valentine’s, Mother’s Day or a wedding shower. Just decorate according to your theme!
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This year I will be spending Valentine’s Day all alone…well, not totally alone. I plan on hanging out with a bottle of wine and some kind of sugary box of chocolates I pick out for myself. I will also probably watch Sweet Home Alabama about 3 times (while reciting all the lines back at the screen…with a heavier accent for each glass of wine I drink) and then fall asleep on the couch around 9pm.
If you are thinking of putting me on suicide watch, please don’t worry — I am actually looking forward to my plans. Sweet Home Alabama is one of my favorite all time movies, wine is awesome, and chocolate is pretty much wine’s best friend. It’s going to be an awesome Valentine’s Day.
Jorge will be out of town for work that week, so I figured what better way to celebrate? But I really am sad that we won’t get to do our traditional V-day stealth Target shopping trip together. Maybe we can do it on Friday when he gets back…and hey, then everything will be 75% off! Yay, for more candy!
You all know that while Jorge and I don’t celebrate V-day in the traditional way, I do love sweet treats that are V-day inspired.
So for this Valentine’s Day, I didn’t want to disappoint you guys and not provide something overly sweet. Because let’s be honest, Valentine’s Day is the first time since Christmas that it is perfectly acceptable (and expected) for us to pig out on Sugar. Thank god for the holidays! 😉
These little darlings take a few steps to make, but really are not difficult. Plus, if you have kids, I am sure they would have a blast getting to crumble up the cake and sprinkle on the little hearts!
Red Velvet Cake Truffles
Ingredients
Red Velvet Cake
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon red food coloring
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon white distilled vinegar
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 2 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup Dixie Crystals Confectioners Powdered Sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Truffle Finish
- 1 package (16 oz) bakers white chocolate
- sprinkles, optional
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9 X 13-inch cake pan.
- Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt into a medium bowl.
- Beat egg, vegetable oil, buttermilk, food coloring, vanilla, and vinegar in a large bowl until well combined. Add dry ingredients and stir until smooth.
- Pour batter into prepared cake pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 18 to 20 minutes. Transfer to a wire racks and let cool completely.
- Prepare cream cheese frosting. Using a rubber spatula combine soft cream cheese with powdered sugar. Avoid mixing vigorously as it will make frosting runny. Add softened butter followed by vanilla.
- In a large bowl, use your hands to crumble cake into small crumbs. Spoon 1/2 cup cream cheese frosting into bowl and stir until mixture is well-combined.
- Using 1 tablespoon of dough, roll dough between your palms until round like a ball. Place on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Place bakers white chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave it until melted, stirring every 45 seconds to prevent overheating.
- Using a fork, submerge a cake ball in the melted candy coating. Replace dipped truffle on baking sheet covered with parchment paper. If desired, top each truffle with sprinkles. Repeat with remaining cake balls.
- Refrigerate truffles to set coating, about 15 minutes. Truffles are best served at room temperature, but must be stored in refrigerator in an airtight container.
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Made these today and I found out that the white chocolate did not want to stick. So frustrated with this since food is so expensive. The chocolate was just perfect and the truffle cake cold and it went into the chocolate the chocolate was warm not over heated. Tried it with much warmer chocolate same thing ended up being more of the dough being in the bowl.
Could you make these with milk/dark chocolate ?
Thanks so much !
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is it ok to make these ahead of time and freeze?
I have never frozen these truffles, so I do not know. Sorry!
These look so good!
Made these as cake pops for v-day. They were great! 🙂
I’m so sorry I didn’t see these in time to make for Valentine’s Day…they’re so darling, and I love anything red velvet! I did make red velvet brownies, but these are so pop-able! I’m glad I found your site. The only problem is there isn’t enough time in the day to make everything I want to make here!
i made these last night and they are F A B U L O U S. my Valentine better hope that his flight home tonight is not delayed…i’ve already popped two this morning. just sayin’.
Haha! So glad they turned out delicious! 😉
Ooooh I wonder if you could do something like this using the leftover scraps from your red velvet marbled brownies .. hmmm. Though I do like your milkshake idea too (; Thanks for responding yesterday, I knew something was wrong when I read 6 cups of flour on the other site !! I am going to try to make them probably tomorrow or Friday and let you know how mine turn out ! I am sure I will have fabulous results like everyone else. I am spending Valentine’s Day alone too but that is because the boyfriend is traveling. He comes home Saturday. Maybe I’ll try to save him some of the treats (;
I just made the cake part and it didn’t really rise that much-not as much as a box cake. Is that right? I did use the soda. Hmmm?
Oops, that was supposed to say little, not lithe. Thanks autocorrect haha!
It should have risen a lithe, but it’s not a super tall cake. It’s moist, not fluffy. Which is what you want for a cake ball. 😉
The recipe isn’t showing up on the Dixie site. The link sends me to their home page. Would you be able to post it here?
Thanks 🙂
They were having issues, but the link is working just fine now! Hope you enjoy them! 🙂
I love the look of these truffles! Would a box cake mix work, too?! Thanks!
Yes you could use boxed cake mix instead!
I made a similar batch just recently – totally addictive! Yours look perfect!
Just read about your Valentine’s Day tradition and I love it! What fun! I know my man would totally add in some of his favorite candy to his purchase (Dots, ewww) but as long as he had chocolate and sour patch watermelon I wouldn’t mind! LOL!
Your Texas accent gets stronger the more you drink?! Me too. It’s kinda embarrassing.
These truffles are perfect. I wish someone would make them for me for V Day…
These sound so lovely! Great recipe Jess!
I, for one, LOVE the sound of your V-Day plans! And also – these truffles. Want.
i love love truffles…these look so adorably fun for valentines day!
These make me smile with unequivocal joy. And I too will be joining you with a glass (or bottle, why lie) of wine. Ben will inevitably blame his nursing school studying or homework as a way to get out of any forced romanticism. He’s such a sweetie. haha Poor guy, I make such fun of him.