Description
Sweet carrot cake truffles merge classic dessert comfort with bite-sized indulgence. Creamy spiced centers rolled in crushed nuts deliver irresistible flavor, making dessert lovers swoon with each delightful morsel you’ll savor.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 box carrot cake mix
- 3 (large) eggs
- ½ cup water
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 8 oz (225g) cream cheese, softened
- 16 oz (450g) white chocolate or white candy melts
- optional: chopped nuts
- optional: shredded coconut
- optional: sprinkles
Instructions
- Cake Preparation: Bake the carrot cake following package instructions, ensuring thorough cooling before further processing.
- Cake Transformation: Pulverize the cooled cake into fine, uniform crumbs using a food processor or manual crumbling technique.
- Binding Mixture: Incorporate softened cream cheese into cake crumbs, kneading until a cohesive, moldable dough emerges.
- Truffle Shaping: Craft uniform 1-inch spheres from the mixture, positioning them carefully on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Chilling Phase: Refrigerate the cake balls for a minimum of 60 minutes to solidify their structure and enhance handling.
- Chocolate Coating: Gently melt white chocolate in microwave, stirring at 30-second intervals until achieving a silky, smooth consistency.
- Dipping and Decorating: Elegantly submerge each chilled truffle into melted chocolate, allowing excess to cascade off, then immediately garnish with selected toppings while coating remains fluid.
- Final Setting: Allow truffles to stabilize at room temperature or expedite the process by briefly chilling in the refrigerator until chocolate hardens completely.
Notes
- Ensure the cream cheese is at room temperature and thoroughly mixed to create a smooth, cohesive dough that holds together perfectly.
- Refrigerate the cake balls for at least an hour to firm them up, making dipping in chocolate easier and preventing cracking or falling apart.
- Melt chocolate slowly and stir frequently to avoid burning. Use a deep, narrow bowl for smooth dipping and tap off excess chocolate to create a clean, thin coating.
- Swap regular cream cheese for dairy-free alternatives, use gluten-free cake mix, and choose vegan white chocolate to accommodate different dietary restrictions while maintaining the truffle’s delicious flavor.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 13
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 120 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 20 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg