Chocolate Covered Sweet Potato Twinkie Cakes

 

The month of October to me, is synonymous with Pumpkin, and lots of it!! i don't know about you but i love baking anything and everything pumpkin, so when i saw these, a pumpkin Twinkies i knew i had to make them.However on our drive down to Disneyland i spent a great deal of time thinking about how to put my own spin on the recipe. Of course, I'll use Sweet potatoes! and make a few slight changes to the filling to make it more, marshmallow filled, cause what goes better with sweet potato than marshmallow? well brown sugar maybe. Anyway, after deciding this, it was a week and a half before i would be able to make them. 

Funfetti Cake balls and a plea for help

Somewhere starting around Christmas of this year i discovered Bakerella and the magic of Cake Pops and the like, Yum! Since then i have been caught up in the simplicity of them, the delicious flavor and the pure creativity they provide...what a wonderful creation!
As a part of my camping menu i decided to bring some Funfetti Cake balls (easier for travel than the pops). They turned out delicious but messy, which brings me to my ultimate question, how do you make them look as delicious as they taste? i always seem to have way more chocolate on each ball then needed, creating sloppy looking balls. Maybe it just takes practice but if there are any tips i would love to hear them. 

for the recipe Check out Bakerella's blog http://www.bakerella.com/red-velvet-cake-balls/

you can use any flavor of cake mix, frosting combination, be creative! and candy melts can be found at Michael's, though Ghirardelli baking chocolate works as a substitute.