Butterscotch Cake Balls

This weekend, I made Devil's Food cake balls with Chocolate Fudge icing. {Normal.} 

THEN I had a brilliant idea to become Bakerella and make them to look like cute pumpkins. {Clever.}

SO, I melt my Vanilla Candy Coating...and add some Wilton Orange Food Coloring. Yes. I did. Guess what happens when you do that...? The Candy Coating turns into hard, caramelized icing. {If you read the fine print on the Candy Coating package- you'll see that it clearly states that adding liquid or heating for too long will cause the Candy Coating to caramelize. :( Didn't read the fine print.} 

No worries... I've heard that melting morsels works just as well. I decided to experiment with Butterscotch Morsels. Y e s.  I  d i d .  {Throughout my experimenting, the cake balls were chilling happily in the freezer.}

The Butterscotch Morsels melted okay, so I proceeded to dip the frozen cake balls. They coated...okay. But as they dried, they were prickly. That's when I remembered that adding a little vegetable oil to the morsels will make them melt thinner. After a few seconds in the microwave, the Butterscotch Morsels were much easier to work with. The cake balls coated beautifully...but still did NOT look like cute little pumpkins. {By-the-way, I'm not Bakerella.}  I realized I didn't have enough Butterscotch Morsels to coat each and every cake ball. Not wanting to waste, I experimented a little with the now stiff icing-like Vanilla Candy Coating by adding a little vegetable oil. It worked! The Vanilla Candy Coating was now pliable enough to coat the remaining delectable chocolate cake balls. Though extremely sugary, the cake balls were delicious :)

{We've already eaten the Orange, Vanilla Candy Coated cake balls, 
so I had to eat a Butterscotch one for the picture. It was hard to do, but I did it.}

Next time, I'll be sure to buy colored Candy Melts.

Ahh, I love happy endings :)

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