Got Milk?

As if my work cookie exchange wasn't enough a few weeks ago, when we got home to Greensboro for Christmas I helped my mom by baking the cookies she wanted for our holiday gatherings. Mom made the pizzelles and Kerry made the red velvet cake balls (more on that deliciousness in a minute!). 6 cookies and 1 pie later, you would think I wouldn't want to see sweets for a year...well, I just needed some milk. :)

Here is the list of what I made: chocolate meringue cookies, coconut snow balls, chocolate truffles, oatmeal lace cookies, peanut butter cup chocolate chip cookies, pecan shortbread cookies and a cranberry walnut pie. Evidence:


Now, I mentioned red velvet cake balls earlier, and if you haven't had them before, go and make them right now, seriously. What an invention. And you can do this with any cake combination (ie yellow cake with chocolate frosting, or carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, or german chocolate cake with chocolate frosting- its endless!). Here's how it goes:

Bake a cake (red velvet in this case) according to the directions/ingredients on the box. When it is done cooking and while it is still warm, crumble up the cake right in the pan. Then pour an entire can of frosting (cream cheese frosting here) into the crumbles and mix together. Form the mixture into bite size balls and place them on a baking pan with parchment paper. Freeze until hard. Once they harden, dip them into melted chocolate (white chocolate here). Refreeze until hard again. Voila! DELICIOUS. You might become addicted, and then you can thank me later.

And don't forget your glass of milk!

LB