Cakes

Cake Balls

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

Lovely little cakes for gifting.

Add a variety of flavourings to the butter icing to get a variety of flavours to the cake balls.

Take a third of the icing and add a tablespoon of cocoa powder. Use to bind a third of the cake crumbs. Decorate the cake balls with melted chocolate and grated chocolate.

Take a third of the icing and add the zest and juice of ½ lemon. Beat until smooth. Use to bind a third of the cake crumbs. Decorate the cake balls with icing and top with lemon zest.

Other suggestions could be orange juice, almond essence or coffee flavouring.

Preparation Time	45 minutes
Baking Time	30 minutes
Portions	25
Skill Level	Easy
Average Rating

Ingredients

150 grams	Butter unsalted, softened
150 grams	Billington's Golden Caster Sugar
3	Egg beaten
½ tsp	vanilla essence
150 grams	Allinson Nature Friendly Self Raising Flour
30 ml	Milk

Additional Ingredients

120 grams	Butter softened
240 grams	Billington's Golden Icing Sugar
2 tbsp	Milk

Method

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Preheat the oven to 200C/180C, 400F/Gas 6. Grease a 15cm/6in square cake tin
In a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla essence, flour and milk together until smooth
Spoon the mixture into the tin and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until springy to the touch. Leave to cool on a wire rack
For the butter icing: Beat the butter in a large bowl until soft. Add half the icing sugar and beat until smooth. Then add the remaining icing sugar with one tablespoon of the milk
Beat until soft and creamy. When the Madeira cake is completely cooled, break and crumble into a bowl. Add about half the icing and mix until the crumbled cake begins to bind together. Dust your hands with icing sugar and roll the cake mix into walnuts sized balls. Leave to set.
Decorate the cake balls with melted chocolate, or icing and a selection of sprinkles.