Lemon Cake Balls

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This lemon cake balls recipe is incredibly easy to make using just a prepared boxed cake mix, cream cheese, and melting wafers. It’s sweet, tart, and full of lemon flavor. The vanilla shell makes it rich. The cake inside is moist and melts in your mouth.

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Lemon Cake Balls

Servings: servings

Calories: 132kcal

Ingredients

15.25 ounce lemon cake mix
1 cup water
3 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
8 ounce cream cheese softened to room temperature
10 ounce vanilla melting wafers
yellow nonpareil sprinkles

Instructions

Start by preheating the oven and preparing the boxed cake mix according to package instructions.
Line two baking trays with parchment paper and set aside.
Remove the cake from the oven and allow it to cool completely in the pan over a wire rack.
Once cooled, crumble the baked cake.
In a large mixing bowl using a hand mixer on medium high speed, beat the cream cheese until smooth and creamy.
Add the crumbled cake to the cream cheese and mix it together on low to medium speed until combined. Use a spatula to scrape the sides of the bowl and ensure all of the cream cheese is mixed in.
Use a 1 ½ inch cookie scoop to scoop even sized cake balls and then roll the ball in the palms of your hands to smooth it out. Place on the prepared baking tray.
Place the balls on the baking tray into the refrigerator to chill for 2 hours. This will help the balls set and keep its shape when dipping.
Using a double boiler or the microwave method, melt the vanilla melting wafers on low heat, stirring often, until fully melted and smooth. Do not overheat otherwise the melts may seize and thicken.
Use a fork to dip one cake ball at a time into the melts then remove and gently tap the fork on the edge to remove the excess coating. Place the ball back onto the parchment paper and repeat with the rest.
Place the leftover vanilla melting wafers in a small piping bag or ziplock bag and snip a small piece of the corner off.
Drizzle over the coated cake balls and then immediately top with sprinkles.
Place in the refrigerator for the coating to harden, about 10 minutes.

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