Pumpkin Cake Truffles

Pumpkin cake mixed with cream cheese, coated in orange coloured white chocolate

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Dessert

Prep Time 45

Cook Time 0

Total Time 45

Servings

Calories 254kcal

Author thebakingexplorer

Use a food processor to blitz the cake into crumbs
Depending on how much your cake weighs, you need half the amount of full fat cream cheese. Mine weighed 700g so I used 350g cream cheese. Mix the cake crumbs and cream cheese together
Use your hand to roll chunks of the mixture into balls. You can weigh them out to make sure they are all the same size - aim for 25g per truffle
Lay the cake truffles onto a baking tray lined with baking paper, and put them into the freezer for 1 hour
Melt the white chocolate by breaking it into squares and microwaving it for 30 seconds. Then microwave in 10 second blasts, stirring between each one, until fully melted. Then mix in the orange food colouring
Use a fork to dip the cake truffles into the melted chocolate, lift them out and gently shake the fork over the bowl to remove any excess chocolate. Put them onto some baking paper to set
Use a clean paint brush to paint the black food colouring onto the cake truffles in a Jack O Lantern pattern
Store leftovers in the fridge and eat within 5 days

You can use any amount of leftover pumpkin cake for this recipe - you just need to weigh it and then use half the weight in cream cheese.
I used white chocolate with orange food colouring to coat the truffles, but you could use orange candy melts instead if you prefer.
If you don't want to paint on the Jack O Lantern faces, leave the truffles plain, add sprinkles or a drizzle of dark chocolate.
Although I provide cup measurements, I highly recommend weighing your ingredients out using digital kitchen scales. It is the most accurate way to measure ingredients and will ensure the best results. Digital scales are very low cost and can be purchased for around £12 ($16.50) .
For teaspoon (tsp) and tablespoon (tbsp) measurements, please use measuring spoons and not the type of spoons you eat with. Again this will ensure accuracy and provide the best results.