Cake ball

I loved the "pudding cake" at Adyar Bakery in Chennai which they've stopped making.  It was delicious, very dense and intensely sweet.  The cake ball, I am glad to say, is pretty much like the pudding cake. My brother sent me the recipe.  It's basically crumbled cake mixed with frosting (icing) made into balls  then rolled in a mixture of cocoa and sugar.  It's a good project if you have young kids.   My daughter helped with crumbling the cake and some of it went into her mouth in the process :).  The original cake ball recipe calls for dipping the cake-frosting balls in melted chocolate.  It was too messy and so I decided to go with the cocoa-sugar mixture.  I am glad I did because it is not sweeter than it has to be.  I had some left over butter cream icing from frosting cupcakes that I used.  The best part about these cake balls is that you can use any kind of cake with any kind of frosting.  So the possibilities are endless.

 Ingredients:
1. one 9 inch round cake  (I halved this recipe and used butter instead of shortening    
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Four-Egg-Yellow-Cake/Detail.aspx )
2.  about 2/3 cup of frosting
3.  2 Tbsp cocoa powder, 1 1/2 Tbsp granulated sugar and 1 Tbsp powdered sugar.

Directions:
1.  Crumble the cake and mix it with the frosting.
2.  Make balls and roll it in the cocoa-sugar mixture.

I like it cold so I store them in the fridge.  Or what's left of them :).