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Funfetti Cake Balls

Funfetti Cake Balls

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Cook Time 35 minutes
Chill Time (or overnight) 2 hours

Ingredients
  

Funfetti Cake

  • 1 + 3/4 cups (210g) cake flour
  • 1 + 1/4 cups (150g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 + 3/4 cups (350g) granulated sugar
  • 2 + 1/2 tsp (10g) baking powder
  • 1 tsp (6g) salt
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup (240g) milk (we used non-fat)
  • 2 tsp (8g) vanilla extract
  • 1 cup (227g) unsalted butter (room temperature) – cut into cubes
  • 3/4 cup (135g) rainbow sprinkles

Funfetti Frosting

  • 2 cups (454g) unsalted butter (room temperature)
  • 4-1/2 to 5 cups (540–600g) powdered sugar
  • 2 Tbsp (25g) vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup (90g) rainbow sprinkles

White Chocolate Coating

  • Ghirardelli White Chocolate Melting Wafers (24 ounces / 680g)
  • 2 Tbsp (27g) vegetable oil
  • Gold glitter dixie dust (optional)
  • rainbow sprinkles (for topping the cake balls)

Instructions
 

Bake the Cake

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  • Spray a 9×13 inch aluminum pan with non-stick spray and set aside.
  • In a large bowl, add your dry ingredients (flours, sugar, baking powder, salt) and stir together until mixed thoroughly.
  • With a handheld or stand mixer add your butter a few cubes at a time to your dry ingredients until all is added. Your batter will still be very dry.
  • Follow by adding in your eggs to your dry ingredients until fully incorporated.
  • Add in your milk and vanilla and mix for 2 minutes on medium speed until batter is fully mixed and smooth.
  • Lastly, fold in your rainbow sprinkles to your batter using a spatula until mixed.
  • Pour your batter into your 9×13 baking pan and bake 30-35 minutes depending on the heat of your oven (mine went for closer to 30 minutes). Once you see it is browned on the edges, and is firm in the middle you can remove from the oven. Use the toothpick test to see if batter is fully baked through at 30 minutes, and place back in the oven if batter is still wet. Test again with a toothpick at 35 minutes.
  • Allow your cake to completely cool.

Make your Frosting

  • To create your frosting, place your butter in a medium sized bowl and mix with a handheld or stand mixer until smooth. Slowly add in your powdered sugar a little bit at a time until fully mixed and smooth.
  • Lastly, add in your vanilla and mix until combined.
  • Finish by folding in the rainbow sprinkles with a spatula.

Create your Cake Balls

  • Once your cake is cooled, cut or break up with your hands into smaller pieces and add to a large mixing bowl. Add in your frosting and stir until fully combined.
  • Place your cake/frosting mixture in the fridge for at least 2 hours or overnight to chill.
  • Once your cake/frosting mixture has chilled, remove from the refrigerator. Start forming 1 inch balls (or 1 Tbsp in size) from your mixture and place each on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Return your cake balls to the fridge to firm up for another 2 hours (or, again, you can leave them overnight to chill and firm up).
  • Melt your Ghirardelli white chocolate melting wafers according to the package. The only note I have on this step is to not overheat. We started with 30 seconds, stirred, and then return the chocolate to the microwave for another 30 seconds until the chocolate was melted all the way. You don’t want to overheat because it will make the chocolate too thin (or it will create a thickness that does not coat the cake balls with a smooth surface). Once melted, add in your vegetable oil and combine. Using a fork (or two), begin dipping each chilled cake ball into the chocolate. Let remaining chocolate run off back into the bowl and simply place each ball on the parchment paper to harden. This will happen pretty fast, so if you want to add sprinkles or any type of topping, add it right after you place each cake ball onto the parchment before it hardens. We let ours harden all the way, then followed up with extra white chocolate to create a fun drizzle on top, then some more rainbow sprinkles on some (duh).
  • OPTIONAL: Add some glitter dust to the top of each cake ball by placing a small paint brush into the dust. Hover your paint brush with the dust over each cake ball and simply tap the brush for the glitter to fall onto each cake ball. We only needed to tap a few times to give each ball a small gold coating. A little goes a long way!