Truffles made with cake frosting?

I found one recipe for these on the Food Network site for "semi homemade." It uses canned frosting. You can find it at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sandra-lee/sens...

But this got me thinking - you could really make different kinds very easily. With a can of chocolate frosting, add some powdered sugar and that is your base. From there you can make rum balls with rum flavoring or real rum. Same thing for bourbon balls - just add bourbon. Some people like orange and chocolate together - so adding some minced citron peel and orange flavoring would work. Cherry and chocolate go together well, so try some cherry flavoring (or kirsch if you want them with a little alcohol) and some minced candied cherries.

Ooo - How about minced candied pineapple. (This time of year, candied fruit is easy to find in grocery stores as people make fruit cakes with it) Or how about some coffee beans that you have pulverized into a powder.

To almost any of those flavors you can add finely chopped nuts.

Now the recipe in the link calls for dusting them with cocoa powder. And I know that is traditional but I like the ones dipped into melted chocolate. Perhaps that is where the chocolate chips came in, in your original recipe? Also dusting them in half cocoa and half pulverized coffee bean is nice. And you can try rolling them in coconut dust (pulverize shredded dried coconut in a blender, food processor or blade-type coffee grinder)

Wow - you gave me some great ideas - thanks for posting the question!

Recipes Using Canned Frosting

I wonder if you mean cake balls. You mix a crumbled cake mix with a tub of frosting, form into balls, chill, then dip into melted choc chips. Looks like truffles. It's as simple as that; no real recipe needed!

Line your baking pan with seran wrap and flip the cake back into the pan, wrap well with plastic and freese for at least 2-3 hours, but overnight would be best. Flip out of the pan, remove plastic then frost and decorate while frozen. I always freeze my cakes, and if your cake was still on hte warm side that would explain why the frosting didn't glue it back together.

I used the recipe you are referring to, B V. I believe it is 1/2 bag melted chocolate chips to 1 tub of icing combined and then chilled, to roll into truffles,

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