Funfetti Cake Balls

Kids love everything funfetti! Well, kids and adults alike will love these little-bite Funfetti Cake Balls.

I have a question. What do you do when you commit to making a dessert for a friend for her family's beach trip, decide to test out a new vanilla cupcake recipe, bake the cupcakes, and they're absolutely terrible??? I mean horrible. Dry. Not a lot of flavor. A huge 'oops.' And ... you don't have a lot of time to come up with something else?

Well, one option is to crumble up all the cupcakes, stir in a bunch of vanilla buttercream and a whole lot of rainbow sprinkles, and make funfetti cake balls. And that's how these funfetti cake balls were born!

Fortunately, I had some yellow candy melts in the pantry leftover from a previous cake pop adventure. And I always have an assortment of sprinkles on hand ... you just never know when you're going to need them, right? So I went to work turning the disappointingly failed cupcakes into fun and pretty little cake bites.

Not too bad a recovery of a huge 'oops,' right?!? Hope they go over well with my friend's family!

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Desserts

American

Yield: varies

Author: Tracey | The Kitchen is My Playground

Kids love everything funfetti! Well, kids and adults alike will love these little-bite Funfetti Cake Balls.

Prep time: 1 hourCook time: Total time: 1 H

Ingredients:

1 baked 9x13" yellow cake
1 to 1/12 c. vanilla frosting, canned or make your own
1 (1 lb.) package vanilla candy melts, any color
about 2 T. shortening
Rainbow sprinkles
Larger confetti/disc sprinkles for decorating

Instructions:

Crumble cake into a large bowl, working it into small crumbs. Add frosting and mix until well combined. Mix in rainbow sprinkles until the mixture looks your desired level of "confetti'ish."
Shape into approximately 1" balls, using about 1 T. of the cake mixture per ball; set aside on wax paper.
Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 1 hour, or place in freezer for about 15 minutes.
In a small deep bowl, melt candy melts and shortening together in the microwave per candy melt package directions (typically in 30 second intervals, stirring in between).
Use a fork to dip each cake ball in the candy coating, letting excess coating drip off back into the bowl. Place on wax paper.
Immediately sprinkle with a few large disc/confetti sprinkles (or additional rainbow sprinkles).
Let stand for coating to set up.

https://www.thekitchenismyplayground.com/2011/08/funfetti-cake-balls-recovery-of-oops.html

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35 comments

Ellen ZamesAugust 17, 2011 at 7:35 AM
Love these. So pretty

Ellen

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extreme personal measuresAugust 17, 2011 at 9:02 AM
These are cute and would look great at Easter. I just have trouble with the chocolate consistency.

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Nicole@HeatOvenTo350August 17, 2011 at 10:59 AM
That is a great recovery! Very impressive. They are so perfect looking.
Stacy@thealmostwholepackageAugust 17, 2011 at 12:49 PM
look yummy! newest follower from cast party wednesday!
So DomesticatedAugust 17, 2011 at 1:06 PM
How cute!
Lindsey LuAugust 17, 2011 at 4:40 PM
cute!
Dorothy @ Crazy for CrustAugust 17, 2011 at 6:13 PM
Such a great idea for recovery. And they are so darn cute! I love the yellow outside and the sprinkles. Your pictures are so pretty.
Inspired By JuneAugust 18, 2011 at 12:58 PM
These look so festive, Tracey! Great save!
Yvonne @ StoneGableAugust 18, 2011 at 9:34 PM
I say your lemon-to-lemonade dessert is so much better and more fun than what you had originally planned. I am bookmarking this and making it for a Labor Day picnic! These are so adorable!
YOur story is a great lesson about having a well stocked pantry! Sprinkles are the fairy dust of the cooking world! They make almost everything better!
Yvonne
Pat @ Mille Fiori FavoritiAugust 18, 2011 at 10:08 PM
Hi! I'm visiting from Foodie Friday and I have to say this is a fun idea! Your funfetti cake balls looks so cute and I bet everyone was gone before you knew it!
UnknownAugust 19, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Great recovery =)

The FBF hop is up this week! Hope you can link up again!
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MsFoxsSweetsAugust 19, 2011 at 10:35 PM
They look great! From an oops to awesome!
Kim McCallieAugust 20, 2011 at 4:37 PM
Great save! They look great. Thanks for sharing on Sweet Indulgences Sunday.
AmyAugust 20, 2011 at 6:29 PM
What a nice and cute 'opps"! :) These are gorgeous and what a clever way to save the recipe.

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UnknownAugust 22, 2011 at 10:14 PM
Thank you for joining me for tea this week. I LOVE what you are sharing this week. This is fantastic!! Funfetti cakeballs...you had me at funfetti!!!!!! HA! Have a SUPER week.
IrishbakerAugust 24, 2011 at 11:14 AM
They are so cute and fun looking,perfect for a birthday party :)
ConcettaAugust 24, 2011 at 3:58 PM
These look fabulous - thank you so much for sharing your clever recovery!
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DANIELLEAugust 24, 2011 at 9:14 PM
THESE LOOK SO GOOD!!!!!! AND FUN!
Jerri at Simply Sweet HomeAugust 25, 2011 at 4:16 PM
These look yummy! And so fun! Thanks for linking up with me for Friday Favorites. I'm featuring you this week!
LisaAugust 26, 2011 at 2:20 AM
Fun is definitely the key word here. You made the Sweets for a Saturday Top 5 with this one!!!
Jordan@the2seasonsAugust 26, 2011 at 9:59 AM
These are so cute I have been wanted to try to make some. I guess I need to get over that they look so complicated and just try it. Great blog!
Kim McCallieAugust 27, 2011 at 8:05 AM
Just stopping by to let you know that your little "oops" was #1 on Sweet Indulgences Sunday on A Well-Seasoned Life. Hope you'll stop by this weekend and share another "mistake".
AmandaAugust 28, 2011 at 4:46 PM
So adorable! Love how colorful they are.
Erin of HomeSavvyAtoZ.comAugust 28, 2011 at 6:38 PM
These are so cute! I cannot believe they started as an oops! I wish I had a funfetti cake ball right now! :) Thank you so much for linking up at Savvy HomeMade Monday. I hope you will link up again!
AliAugust 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM
Happy Monday! I wanted to thank you for sharing this delicious recipe at Recipe Sharing Monday. The new party is now up and I'd love for you to link up again :)
Dorothy @ Crazy for CrustSeptember 1, 2011 at 3:38 PM
Again, these are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing with Crazy Sweet Tuesday!
Andrea @ Sew DivertimentoSeptember 22, 2011 at 12:25 AM
Great idea! I love when new fun things come from 'mishaps'.... Thanks for sharing!

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AutumnSeptember 22, 2011 at 1:05 AM
These look great! How many did this recipe make?
Tracey @ The Kitchen is My PlaygroundSeptember 22, 2011 at 7:46 PM
Autumn - Thank you!! This recipe made about 40 good-sized cake balls.
Tracey @ The Kitchen is My Playground
bodicegoddessOctober 24, 2011 at 12:45 PM
I'm just finding this, but it appears as though we're soulmates of the brain.
I had a cupcake botch of my own - tried to make walnut chocolate pumpkin cupcakes while moving cars around and working on the electrical in my house. Bad news bears. Cupcakes ended up more like cupcake jerky. So they're crumbled up in Gladware in my fridge with some leftover cupcakes from another batch, and I'm so ready to cake ball the heck out of them!
Thanks for the tip about coating them with chocolate using the "tongs" method. I was going to try and find lollipop sticks, and now I don't have to.
Mrs. No-NoNovember 1, 2011 at 10:27 AM
These look so good - - and your pictures are so great!!! Did you take a class to learn how to stage your pics so well?
Anyways.... these look like they would be a fun and easy alternative to cupcakes next time I need them. Thanks!
Carla :)
UnknownMay 9, 2012 at 9:28 PM
Nice save! Well done you! (I've pinterested this!) xx
AnonymousMay 16, 2017 at 9:36 AM
These look great! How many did this recipe make?
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Chankanaab CozumelSeptember 14, 2019 at 11:09 AM
Such pretty pretty looking cup cakes ! I can't wait to make them.
Kevin ElwoodMarch 31, 2020 at 4:24 AM
Your cake balls are so perfectly round! Thanks for the tutorial!

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Funfetti Cake Balls - recovery of an 'oops!'