Cake Balls!

Box of cake, made as per box (I used Strawberry cake)

Container vanilla icing

1 bag white chocolate chips

1. Bake cake as per box, let cool completely.

2. Crumble cake in a large bowl. Mix with container of icing.

3. Roll cake/icing mixture into 1 1/2 inch balls. Pop them in the freezer for about an hour so that they stick together a little better.

4. Melt chocolate in microwave. Roll balls in melted chocolate. Set in a glass pan and put them in the fridge.

---Review---

When I found this recipe online, it called for Red Velvet cake. While I am sure that Red Velvet cake is very lovely, I love pink cake. Megan and I used to make pink cupcakes in college, and eating any form of pink cake makes me the happiest girl on the block.

As you can guess, these are just about the best dessert ever. And they're super easy to make.

I'd say you can use any kind of cake you want. Use your favorite. Roll it in whatever chocolate you love the most.

Try to only eat one ball at a time.

Sarah- Iron Chef Blogger Challenge #3- Cranberries

So... I don't have a recipe for you. Brandon's Mom made this for us during our stay (well... made two because we ate one whole one in the first two days and then we helped her make another).

It has oats, dried cranberries, raisins, other small dried fruits, and a cup of assorted chips. No additional sugar! In fact, only like 12 grams of sugar in the whole thing, which is especially important since we all just found out that Brandon's dad has diabetes.

Anyway, if I ever get the recipe I'll put it up... it is amazing.

Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have leftover cranberries that I had to find a way to use so I settled on more baking. The holidays just put me in a baking mood, I think. I'm going to have a baking frenzy on Saturday. I love cookies. I don't eat a lot of them, but one good cookie is so satisfying. I picked this recipe from Just Another Foodie and modified it just slightly by using fresh cranberries instead of dried. I didn't know how that would turn out, but I think it turned into a fantastic success. I'll be making some more this weekend.

White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies (recipe from Just Another Foodie)
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup dried cranberries

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg and vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine the flour and baking soda, then stir into the sugar mixture. Mix in the white chocolate chips and cranberries. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheets. (I very carefully made sure there was only one cranberry in each cookie so as not to overwhelm the cookie with any tartness.) Bake for 8-10 minutes.