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What’s better than cake balls?  

Cake balls with bubbly!

These Sparkling Cake Balls are made with sparkling wine, cake mix, white chocolate, and frosting.  They couldn’t be more simple… or more impressive!  They’re the perfect addition to any holiday potluck.

In the event that you don’t know me… I like fermented grape juice.  The fermented variety.  For proof of this, check out the Italy wine tour posts:

Traditionally I am a red wine girl (that dessert is coming, don’t you worry), but I felt that cake balls required a little something to class them up.  Prosecco.  Keeping it Italian.

It was rare to get an actual champagne glass in Italia

Cake balls have been all the rage for the past year.  They didn’t impress me much until I saw a recipe for champagne cake balls.

The premise is easy: 1 box of cake mix + 1 cup of bubbly.   All you have to do is mix, bake, cool, and crumble.

Here’s where I got carried away inspired.  The next step is typically mixing 1/2 cup of store-bought frosting with the cake crumbles.

That’s not enough bubbly!

So I made frosting.  With more Prosecco.  Inspired by the idea of red wine frosting.

These beautiful bubbly balls (don’t you love alliteration?) are like eating dough.  The icing makes them impossibly moist and the white chocolate coating adds the right amount of sweetness – not too sweet, not too blah… juuuuust right al la Goldilocks!

And I don’t even like white chocolate.

My co-workers seemed to enjoy them  I took this plate to work today for our office’s Thanksgiving Potluck.  I came home empty-handed, but +1 holiday baking order.  My first commissioned dessert!!!

Added bonus: being able to text my mom to tell her my balls were a big hit at work.

That’s right.  This holiday season I will specialize in Sparking Balls.

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Sparkling Wine Cake Balls

by Laura Hall

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 25 mins

Keywords: bake dessert wine white chocolate powdered sugar Christmas

Ingredients (30 balls)

    For the Cake

      • 1 box white cake mix
      • 1 C Prosecco (or other sparkling beverage)
      • 1/2 C Prosecco frosting (see below for recipe)
    • 1 C melted white chocolate

    For the Icing

      • 1 C + 2T Prosecco
      • 3 C confectioners’ sugar
    • 1 C (2 sticks) salted butter, softened

    Instructions

    For the Cake

    Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

    In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix and Prosecco.

    Bake according to box instructions. Allow to cool completely.

    Meanwhile, prepare the frosting.

    For the Frosting

    Pour 1 cup of the sparkling wine in a small pot over med-high heat and reduce to 1/4 cup. Remove from heat and allow to cool completely.

    In a large bowl use a stand or hand mixer with the whisk attachment, blend the butter and sugar until fluffy. Start out on low and then move to high speed to prevent a huge mess.

    Slowly pour in the cooled reduction, scraping down sides as necessary. Add the remaining 2T of Prosecco and beat until thoroughly mixed.

    For the Ball Assembly

    Crumble the cooled cake into a large bowl. Add 1/2 cup of frosting and stir to combine (feel free to use your hands).

    Roll into balls approximately 1T in size. Place on wax paper-lined cookie sheet and allow to chill in the fridge.

    Once chilled, melt 8 oz white chocolate (I used Baker’s) and dip cake balls until covered.

    Dust/roll in sprinkles, if desired, before chocolate hardens. Return to the refrigerator on wax paper lined cookie sheet to harden.

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    Sometimes I title images in posts to make myself laugh… does anyone ever hover over them?

    Have you ever made cake balls?

    Do your office potluck turn out well or full of store-bought stuff?

    Comments

    4. These are so fun! Thank you for sharing with us. Cake balls to me are a lot of work, but everyone just LOVES it when you make them…so maybe they aren’t so bad hehe

    7. Thanks for the shout out! These look awesome. I may have to make them. Believe it or not I have yet to make cake balls, but these look like an awesome NYE dessert option.

    10. Oh wow, I love your balls! They look so tasty! hehe.
      I loved this post, it cracked me up. I can’t wait to try these! I too haven’t been swooned by the whole cake ball craze, mostly because I’m not a big fan of canned frosting. I am going to try these and see if I become a convert.

    12. How many balls was that in one post! Haha! I’m giggling away like a child! They look and sound amazing!! I have to seriously stop reading food blogs for a while, I seem to spend my entire life desperate for food, and it’s not due to lack of eating believe me! Ha! 🙂

    13. I’m with you about red wine and about cake pops. I tried one for the first time a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t figure out what all the rage was about. They look cute on a stick and all, but I wasn’t enjoying the texture. I’ll have to give ’em another try, especially if it’s got some bubbly in it! 😉 They could prove to be dangerously addicting.

      • It did need the sparkling icing to bring out the taste. It also probably depends on the bubbly you use – don’t get one that is too light (read: Cooks).

    19. I love these balls!! With the champagne they now are so classy!! I’m definitely making these for holiday party time!! I’ve seen cake pops everywhere and I have just taken the idea and made them from leftover birthday cakes! I’m not a fan of layered cakes or those office cakes people bring in. So whatever is not eaten, they give it to me and I return the next day with cake pops! Basically taking the entire cake, frosting and all and smooshing and forming it!! Talk about recycling!

      • That’s so funny they give it to you to “recycle.” Such a good idea! The pre-sliced lemon cake is always the last stuff to go.

    20. Genius. I made a similar comment to a librarian (!) today, but it was on accident. She asked me if I had plans for Thanksgiving and that I could come to her house if we didn’t. She they have a big family with a lot of nuts in it. My reply “oh that’s ok, I like big nuts…..” then quickly “big nutty families.” So embarrassed! Needless to say, we won’t be joining them. Haha!

    21. Two consecutive posts having to do with balls??? Are you trying to tell us something my friend? 😉

      Btw just added you to the blogroll….don’t know why I haven’t done so before. Probably to focused on drinking wine.

    22. I love sparkly balls (sorry, I had to say it). These look great! I’ve seen cake balls and cake pops everything ( I recently won a cake pop stand). I just wasn’t inspired to make them until I saw this recipe.

    25. Wow! Isn’t Jenny amazing. She comes up with some great stuff and I love your spin on the frosting. This is absolutely going on my to do list.

    26. super important to give your balls time to harden and dry =)

      bahaha! love when you have balls in your post! these look frickin amazing! come deliver a few dozen! kthx

    27. These look beautiful and so delicious! What do you do with all of the leftover frosting, since you only use 1/2 cup of it in the recipe? Can’t wait to try these!

      • Thank you! I froze the rest for later use in more balls, or on cupcakes. I’m thinking it would be wonderful with strawberry cupcakes!

      • No, YOU are fabulous! I’ll keep you posted if I make it to the great LA soon. Please do the same if you get to the East coast!!

    31. Hi Laura! I am going to make these for a party tomorrow and just want to make sure I am reading your recipe correctly. Do you add the eggs, oil and milk that are normally added to cake mix as well as the prosecco? Or just prosecco and cake mix ONLY. I read it as just prosecco and cake mix but wanted to make sure before I start. Thank you!!

      • Awesome! To make these you ONLY use a cup of champagne. No eggs, oil, etc. Let me know how they turn out! 🙂

        • Laura, these were amazing!!! (I ended up using some egg whites and oil after reading some of your comments about them being really doughy and wanted a little bit more of a cake like substance.) The frosting was absolutely positively amazing. WOW. I also dipped some of these in dark chocolate and there were rave reviews all around. These are going in my Christmas baking arsenal! Thank you so much for a fab recipe!

          • Wow! I am so glad they were a hit. Thank you!!! Great modifications to make them more cake-like. 🙂

            I just made 100 of them last week. Tis the season!

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