The 23rd Year- Cake balls and jello shots
Happy Monday, friends! This weekend fleeeeew by. Mostly because I was busy turning 23.
There isn’t really anything interesting that comes along with turning 23, but don’t worry, we found ways to celebrate.
Eric threw me a watermelon themed birthday party, which means I’ll never look at watermelon the same way again. For better or for worse.
Try not to be super jealous of my BFF. This is us eating a piece of cake together. And I realize we look like we’re a married couple getting read to eat wedding cake or something. Sorry.
But how cute is this cake?! On top of that watermelon is 23 cake balls. Have you ever made these things?! They’re delicious.
Just in case you do want to make these, it’s super simple:
Easy Cake Ball Recipe
- 1 cake, baked and slightly cooled
- 1 can of frosting
- 2 cups chocolate candy coating
You just crumble up the baked cake, and mix in a can of frosting. You can do any combination, like chocolate and chocolate. Or red velvet and cream cheese. Any combo you dream up. Then roll it into balls and let it freeze for at LEAST an hour. Spear with a toothpick and dip the balls in some melted candy coating and let it set. Obviously, the possibilities for this are endless. And you can add things like nuts and sprinkles to the candy coating. Go make these, and your neighbors/coworkers/friends/family/crazy ex-boyfriends will love you forever.
Also, in case you were wondering, you can make vegan jello shots.
Pick up some vegan “jel dessert” and follow the package directions, substituting about 40% of the water for vodka. (But you didn’t hear that from me.)
What fun weekend activities did you get into?
I missed this on the actual day but HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Happy birthday! I love how there are candles in the pops!
Happy Birthday!!! 🙂
I’m so glad you had a fun birthday. It looks like a good time. I’m also happy to hear you can make vegan jello shots. Kev would fuss at my in college for always grabbing the sugar-free jello so he could make jello shots for parties, but apparently those don’t set as well. Whoops!
psh, I used sugar free for the non-vegan shots and it worked fine!! Tell him it works just as well! 🙂
YAY! HAAPPPPYY 23RD BIRTHDAY, LIZ!! <3 Love ya girly. Looks like a fun weekend.
Happy belated birthday! Your party looks like a lot of fun 🙂 Cake balls sound fun too – great party food!
Happy birthday! I hope you had a great day 🙂 Any day with cake balls is bound to be good!
Happy late birthday! Looks like a ton of fun! I secretly love jello shots but I refuse to eat jello anymore…thanks for the idea! 😉
You are so friggin’ cute, and I am super upset that I wasn’t able to fly there and celebrate with you. At least I got to experience some of your fun text messages!!! That made up for it … sort of.
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Happy belated bday girl 🙂
Ive tried to make cake balls before and I couldnt get them to hold together!! I thought maybe I had used too much frosting, but even when I froze them they just seemed to be a gooey mess. I always love the look of them though!