Cake Truffles

Recently I was asked to make a victoria sponge cake with jam and cream.  No problem I say. Sponges are quick and easy to bake, I don't even have to look up the recipe.  I baked my usual sponge recipe but I'm not sure what went wrong as after I turned it out to cool on the rack, there was hole in the middle of the cake!! 

I thought about how I could fix it or what I could do with the cake as it still tasted good! Initially, I thought about making it into a bundt cake and fill the middle with fruits and cream but then I decided to make cake truffles. Quite a few bloggers I know have been raving about Philadelphia Cadbury chocolate cream cheese which I have been dying to try. This is the silver lining so I rushed out to get a tub and proceeded to make cake truffles. I blitzed the cake in a food processor then stirred in the chocolate cream cheese. I used a small ice cream scoop to make balls (using a scoop gives uniform shapes).  I left them to chill for 15-20 minutes in the fridge until firm. Next I dipped them in melted chocolate and topped with sprinkles or wafer daisies. 

I also made some star shaped ones using my new star mould which turned out great! I sprayed them gold and wrote happy birthday on them with writing icing as a colleague had recently celebrated her birthday and had been complaining that no-one had made or bought her cake. She was really pleased with these and ate all the stars by herself! 

I made a batch with plain cream cheese as well but almost everyone preferred the chocolate cream cheese one. It's really tasty and tastes just like cadburys chocolate mixed with cream cheese! I know that's what it is but there's no other way to describe it. I could quite easily eat it out of the tub. 

I'm sharing these with Cast Party Wednesday at Lady Behind the Curtain

 cake crumbs and chocolate cream cheese

 after mixing with the cream cheese 

 a chance to use my new mould

 I also made some plain ones 

 for the birthday girl :)

 delicious!