Best desert gift? (oops - deSSert!)

Heather Micaela · 12-17-2009, 04:34 PM

For some extended family members I found some second-hand christmas tins and want to fill it with some dessert-type food. I want it to be fairly simple but better than just choclate chip cookies.

I was thinking fudge or cake balls.

So which would you prefer to get?
And if I do cake balls - what flavor/recipe?

curlymopmom · 12-17-2009, 04:43 PM

I've never actually had cakeballs but I would think I would prefer those. How fun!

mamaKristin · 12-17-2009, 05:58 PM

Fudge is nice, but cakeballs can look really pretty. Although, it's more labor intensive.

You could do chocolate fudge with smashed up candy canes on top, or with a whole nut, or oreo fudge with chopped oreos on top.

expatmom · 12-17-2009, 05:59 PM

I'd do cake balls. You could probably choose your combo based on what you have in your kitchen. That is what I did. I used mint extract & chocolate syrup (the drinking kind).

poleidopy · 12-17-2009, 06:09 PM

I'd do buckeyes (sorry, I know that wasn't an option

)

cakeballs get my vote then.

Dana Joy · 12-17-2009, 06:11 PM

whichever is the least labor intensive, I hate baking.

Heather Micaela · 12-17-2009, 06:43 PM

what on earth are buckeyes?

And cakeballs didn't seem so bad. My mom did german chocolate ones and she simply baked a chocolate cake, crumbbled it up, and added the coconout stuff

Dana Joy · 12-17-2009, 06:49 PM

that's still about two or three steps too many for me

mamaKristin · 12-17-2009, 06:50 PM

The cake part is pretty fast, I find the dipping in chocolate after part a bit long.

Heather Micaela · 12-17-2009, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mamaKristin

The cake part is pretty fast, I find the dipping in chocolate after part a bit long.

eh I was going to dunk and not do but one color

expatmom · 12-17-2009, 07:01 PM

The key is not to dip all at once. I have a bunch frozen in my freezer & have just pulled them out and dipped when I've needed them. It is a lot more manageable then.

mamaKristin · 12-17-2009, 07:01 PM

oh, and I generally get about 55 balls from one cake mix. In my house, it's way easier to get a whole batch of fudge out the door than it is to not eat cake balls

Barefoot Bookworm · 12-17-2009, 07:05 PM

I think cake balls would be fun but I've never personally had them.

I'm doing peppermint patties, Martha Washingtons (pretty much like home made Mounds), and Buckeyes (pretty much like Reese's cups but better) for my candy gifts this year.

poleidopy · 12-17-2009, 07:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Heather Micaela

what on earth are buckeyes?

And cakeballs didn't seem so bad. My mom did german chocolate ones and she simply baked a chocolate cake, crumbbled it up, and added the coconout stuff

buckeyes are super easy. peanut butter, butter & powdered sugar rolled into balls, then you dip the balls in chocolate. Tastes SO much better than a Reeses.

Heather Micaela · 12-17-2009, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poleidopy

buckeyes are super easy. peanut butter, butter & powdered sugar rolled into balls, then you dip the balls in chocolate. Tastes SO much better than a Reeses.

I may just have to do this.

Do you have a specific recipe I could use?

ETA: I just realized I worte DESERT recipe. Anyone for cactus juice.

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12-17-2009, 04:43 PM	#2
curlymopmom Deactivated Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 12,494	Re: Best desert gift? I've never actually had cakeballs but I would think I would prefer those. How fun!

12-17-2009, 05:58 PM	#3
mamaKristin Rose Garden parenting better than I garden Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: just here :) Posts: 26,586	Re: Best desert gift? Fudge is nice, but cakeballs can look really pretty. Although, it's more labor intensive. You could do chocolate fudge with smashed up candy canes on top, or with a whole nut, or oreo fudge with chopped oreos on top.

12-17-2009, 05:59 PM	#4
expatmom Rose Garden Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 19,582	Re: Best desert gift? I'd do cake balls. You could probably choose your combo based on what you have in your kitchen. That is what I did. I used mint extract & chocolate syrup (the drinking kind). __________________

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poleidopy Deactivated Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Where I'm loved. Posts: 16,592	Re: Best desert gift? I'd do buckeyes (sorry, I know that wasn't an option ) cakeballs get my vote then.

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12-17-2009, 06:43 PM	#7
Heather Micaela Rose Garden Bar/Bat Mitzvah picture with husband Michael. Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Within sight and earshot of the Disneyland fireworks Posts: 39,893	Re: Best desert gift? what on earth are buckeyes? And cakeballs didn't seem so bad. My mom did german chocolate ones and she simply baked a chocolate cake, crumbbled it up, and added the coconout stuff __________________ Heather ESFJ T4 Messianic Joshua-13 Christina- 11 Amalia Linda-8.5 Trinity-7 Gabriel-5 w/ADHD, ASD & Dyslexia Taylor Jordan11/15/04 SkyeDakota10/12/05 Life is a pile of good things & bad things The good things don't always soften the bad things but the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things

12-17-2009, 06:49 PM	#8
Dana Joy Deactivated AKA "Mommy Piadosa" or on FB "PunkHippyMommy" Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 14,478	Re: Best desert gift? that's still about two or three steps too many for me

12-17-2009, 06:50 PM	#9
mamaKristin Rose Garden parenting better than I garden Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: just here :) Posts: 26,586	Re: Best desert gift? The cake part is pretty fast, I find the dipping in chocolate after part a bit long.

12-17-2009, 07:01 PM	#11
expatmom Rose Garden Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 19,582	Re: Best desert gift? The key is not to dip all at once. I have a bunch frozen in my freezer & have just pulled them out and dipped when I've needed them. It is a lot more manageable then. __________________

12-17-2009, 07:01 PM	#12
mamaKristin Rose Garden parenting better than I garden Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: just here :) Posts: 26,586	Re: Best desert gift? oh, and I generally get about 55 balls from one cake mix. In my house, it's way easier to get a whole batch of fudge out the door than it is to not eat cake balls

12-17-2009, 07:05 PM	#13
Barefoot Bookworm Rose Garden Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 14,288	Re: Best desert gift? I think cake balls would be fun but I've never personally had them. I'm doing peppermint patties, Martha Washingtons (pretty much like home made Mounds), and Buckeyes (pretty much like Reese's cups but better) for my candy gifts this year. __________________ Happily married to DH. Mama to: Ladybug (13), Lamb (12), Miss Mousie (11), Billy Goat (9), Wren and Hedgehog (5)!

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