Today we are playing with Green Velvet. Kind of like Red Velvet...but...well, you know...green.
Here is the basic guest list for this recipe:
1 Milk Chocolate Cake Mix (for the mix I used, you also need 3 eggs, 1 1/4 c water, and 1/3 c oil)
1 can cream cheese frosting
1 bottle green food coloring
2 tbsp cocoa (optional)
1 tsp vanilla (optional)
1 12 oz package white chocolate morsels
1 12 oz package semi sweet chocolate morsels
green sprinkles
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9"x13" cake pan (I "floured" mine with extra cocoa). Combine water, oil, eggs, and cake mix and mix according to package directions (2 minutes). SLOWLY add the food coloring, and the cocoa and vanilla if desired. These pictures are from my first attempt, I used the cocoa and vanilla, and a whole bottle of the food coloring. Second test, I omitted the cocoa and used only 1/2 a bottle of food coloring, with only a minor depth of color change. Go with your personal preference on this one. Once food coloring is evenly distributed, pour into prepared pan and bake for recommended time (30-35 minutes) - check at 30 minutes- I found adding the cocoa, vanilla, and entire bottle of food coloring required 5 extra minutes baking time.
Isn't this an AWESOME green???
Once cake is removed from the oven, allow to cool. When completely cool, crumble the entire cake into a large bowl. Add 1/2 the cream cheese frosting. Remaining frosting can be refrigerated for later use. Or eaten with a spoon. Whatever.
Anyway....
Smush the crumbled cake and frosting together. I suppose you could use a spoon, but hands are much easier. Once thoroughly combined, roll this "dough" into balls and place on a cookie sheet or wire rack- temptation is to make them larger. Go smaller. The final cake bite is really rich and you don't want to overwhelm folks. Once rolling is complete, place the cookie sheet or wire rack in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to chill.
Melt one package of chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl, 20 second intervals, stirring often. Be prepared to work fast. Have plenty of paper towels, toothpicks, and couple of teaspoons, the sprinkles, and wax or parchment paper ready to use. Place a ball on a toothpick and dip into the melted chocolate. Quickly coat and gently "jiggle" to remove excess chocolate. Place cake bite on paper. Use the teaspoon to fill in the hole from the toothpick. Add the sprinkles and you get something that looks like this.
Oh happy day!!!
And just so ya know, when you add the whole bottle of food coloring, you can tell exactly who has had a cake bite.
You have been warned :-)
