Wow! 8 months since my last post!

I'm seeing a trend. I post 5 times a year on my blog. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. I'm at work and a friend needed a recipe that I remembered was on my blog. So...I signed in to get it instead of waiting until I get home to get it out of my recipe box. Yep, I haven't posted anything since September 2010.

Today is the last day of school!! Yippee!! I plan on doing a lot more cooking this summer since we don't have sports practices, piano lessons, girl scouts, etc. I only work about 1 day a week in the summer so it leaves more time for going to the pool, I mean cooking! My goal is to post more on my blog. Claire and I already have big plans to make homemade bread and some other things we've never made.

This past weekend, Memorial Day, I made cake balls. They were Red Velvet with white coating and blue sprinkles. Get it?? Red, White and Blue!! Here's the recipe:

Cake Balls

1 cake mix (any flavor) prepared and baked in a 9x13 pan

1 tub frosting (any flavor)

1 block almond bark (white or chocolate)

Make the cake like the box says. Cool completely (I mean completely!). Crumble cake in a large bowl and stir in frosting. Shape mixture into balls (I use a cookie scoop) and place on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper. Refrigerate for a couple of hours (they did better leaving them overnight). Melt almond bark in a measuring cup. Dip balls one at a time and place on wax paper to harden. It might be necessary to zap the almond bark again if it cools off to much and gets thick. Yields: 52 balls

As you can see, the possibilities are endless. Next time, I will use chocolate almond bark as it's hard to keep every crumb out and red velvet really shows up in white. I'm thinking German Chocolate Cake...hmmm, sounds yummy. These can also be made into cake pops by putting them on a sucker stick (Let dry in a block of Styrofoam so all sides are pretty). I think I'll try using sucker sticks next time.

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...blog more often!