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No Bake Nutella Balls (chocolate truffles)

Here’s a new favourite truffle I added to our Christmas cookie boxes this year. I’ll share with you how to make No Bake Nutella Balls covered in chocolate with a few sprinkles to make them look festive. These were so delicious. I had a hard time not eating all of them myself. You can crush the graham crackers yourself, but I just purchased a box of crumbs. No Bake Nutella Balls Makes about 50 balls Adapted from The Carefree Kitchen Ingredients For the filling 1/2 cup of butter, softened 1 1/4 cup Nutella 1 cup graham cracker crumbs 2 cups icing sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla For the coating 1 1/2 cups meting chocolate (I used milk) Directions Combine all filling ingredients until a dough forms. You can add more Nutella or graham crumbs  if you feel the dough is too soft or dry. The dough should hold its shape once rolled.  Roll teaspoon size balls and place in a single layer in the freezer for 30 minutes.  Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or bowl over a simmering pot of wa...
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Individual Lemon Angel Food Cakes

So far I’ve used a few different liquids with the boxed angel food cake mix. Pineapple is good, raspberry was a flop, mocha was tasty and lemon was my favourite so far. I wanted to put poppy seeds in it but I couldn’t be bothered looking for them last night since I’d just spent over 2 hours assembling our new coffee and end tables.

I also thought I would try to microwave it because it was getting late and I wanted something fast. It works, but the texture is almost like bread. I just didn’t want to turn on the oven last night for 1 little cake. Last time I was already baking something so it was okay, I just put the little ramekin in with it.

Oh, and my friend did try to use peach puree but the result was the same as my raspberry cakes. It was gooey in the middle and any chunks of peaches that were left sunk to the bottom. She said it was yummy though. The puree’s appear to be too heavy for this cake mix. They work much better with regular boxed cake mix. Pumpkin puree mixed with spice cake mix is a good one - we’ll get to that when Autumn comes around.


Here's what my scant 1/3 cup looks like.

Here's my raspberry flop cake (lol). Delicious and really pretty, but gooey in the middle.

Individual Lemon Angel Food Cakes
Makes 1 serving

Ingredients
  • 38grams angel food cake mix (a scant 1/3 cup)
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • ¼ teaspoon lemon zest
  • 1 tablespoon cold water
Directions
  1. Spray a ramekin lightly with cooking spray and preheat the oven to 400F if you’re going to bake this.
  2. Mix everything together with a fork and pour it into the ramekin.
  3. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until firm and no longer sticky.
  4. If you’re using the microwave, make sure the batter doesn’t go more than half way up the ramekin. Let it go on high for 60 seconds. It’ll puff up but when you open the door it will deflate again. Make sure your ramekin is big enough to handle the puff. Or use a mug!
  5. So what’s next? How about a doughnut flavoured angel food cake? I’m going to add some nutmeg to the cake mix and make a quick glaze with icing sugar.

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