Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cake Balls
There's no better cure for a Halloween sweet tooth than chocolate-covered bites of pumpkin-spiced cake filled with rich cream cheese swirls!
Servings: 3 dozen
Calories: 161kcal
Ingredients
- 15 oz. pure pumpkin
- 2 eggs
- 1 t. vanilla
- 1 t. cinnamon
- ½ t. ground ginger
- ¼ t. ground cloves
- ½ t. baking soda
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 1 can cream cheese frosting
- 2 T. brown sugar
- 1 t. vanilla
- 1 t. cinnamon
- chocolate almond bark
- vanilla almond bark
- ½ t. yellow food coloring
- 6-9 drops red food coloring
- sprinkles (optional)
- cocoa powder (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Beat together pumpkin, eggs, and vanilla.
- Stir in cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and baking soda.
- Slowly add sugar and cake mix and stir until combined.
- Pour the batter into a greased pan and bake at 350° for 50-60 minutes.
- In a large bowl, beat frosting, brown sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon.
- Break cake into pieces and slowly combine with frosting until mostly smooth.
- Slowly melt chocolate and vanilla almond bark in separate bowls in the microwave.
- Stir yellow food coloring into vanilla almond bark. Add red food coloring 2-3 drops at a time until you reach the shade of orange you want.
- Roll cake mixture into 1” balls, dip in either chocolate or vanilla, and set on a rack to dry.
- Top with sprinkles, cocoa powder, or candy immediately after dipping before the almond bark dries.