Hungry Caterpillar Cake Balls

Moist vanilla cake balls coated in red and green candy melts. This recipe for hungry caterpillar cake balls will definitely be a birthday party hit

Course Birthday Food, cake

Cuisine International

Prep Time 1 20

Cook Time 50

Total Time 2 10

Servings

Calories 190kcal

Author Corina Blum

Ingredients

For the cake

125 g butter
125 g sugar
125 g self-raising flour
2 eggs at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

To make the cake balls

120 g cream cheese
200 g green candy melts
30 g red candy melts
Mini smarties or similar sweets for the caterpillar eyes and nose

For the other decorations

200 g Red ready to roll icing
200 g Green ready to roll icing

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Make the fruit shapes first. Roll out the icing and cut out the right fruit shapes. Use the side of a fork or something similar to make marks on the strawberries to look like seeds. Leave them to dry out on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
Next make the cake. Cream the butter and sugar together. Beat in the vanilla.
Add a third of the flour and an egg and beat in. Add another third of flour and an egg and beat in. Add the remaining flour. Beat in.
Grease and line a 17cm cake tin. Bake in the oven at 160 for 40-50 minutes. Check with a skewer after 40 minutes. If it comes out clean it's ready, if not bake for a little longer.
Let the cake cool completely on a wire rack.
Crumble the cake into a large mixing bowl so it resembles breadcrumbs. Use your hands to mix in the cream cheese to form a cookie dough consistency. If its too dry you may need a little more cream cheese.
Form the dough into balls and put in the freezer until you're ready for the next step.
Melt the candy melts in the microwave or over a saucepan.
Roll the cake balls quickly in the melted candy melts and put them on a baking tray lined with baking paper to dry. If the bowl of melted candy melts starts to solidify then just pop it back in the microwave for a minute.
Stick the eyes on the red cake ball as soon as you make it.
Then use a little bit of the brown ready-to-roll icing to make the caterpillar's antenna and just stick them on top of the cake ball. You can do this when it has dried.
When ready to serve, use some of the cake balls to prop the fruit shapes up and the rest to make a caterpillar shape.

Notes

Nutritional information is approximate and a guideline only.

Nutrition

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