The 4 Major Food Groups: Chocolate, Caramel, Coconut and Rum

Yay! More cake balls! I know, I know...enough already with the cake balls. This is the last you'll see of them for awhile, I promise. These were pretty awesome though, not to toot my own horn or anything, but I totally rocked them.

I got the idea to make chocolate, caramel and coconut cake balls partly from Samoas (or whatever they're called now), my favorite girl scout cookie, and mostly from Melissa, one of my co-workers. She loves Malibu, they even call her Malibu Mel. Catchy name, right? So I'm sitting around thinking about how I can work Malibu into a recipe. Of course I google it _when in doubt I always turn to google) and I came up with THIS fantastic recipe. Then I think, why not make it into cake balls? Brilliant, I know! Here's what I did...

SUPPLIES:
- Malibu Rum Cake (ex-nay on the Rum Glaze, that does not help us here...unfortunately)
- White Frosting
- Semi-Sweet Chocolate to Melt
- Sweetened Coconut Flakes
- Caramel to drizzle

Treat this like you would any other cake balls. After making the Malibu Rum cake and letting it cool completely, go ahead and crumble it up in a big bowl and mix it with a can of white frosting. Form the mixture into ball shapes and throw in the freezer for a few minutes until firm. Dip the balls into the melted chocolate and place on wax paper - immediately decorate with sweetened coconut flakes (otherwise they won't stick). After they've dried, you can drizzle caramel to your heart's desire. I put the caramel in a Wilton Candy Squeeze bottle to make it a bit easier. It drizzled just the right amount in my opinion.


Here's the kicker...I don't even LIKE coconut, but I love these things! They had just a taste of coconut to them and I left coconut flakes off about half the cake balls to keep it from being too overwhelming. I think everyone was happy with the result and Melissa - lucky her - gets to drink the leftover Malibu Rum. :)

Next Week: I make a dessert in honor of an Oscar Nominated Movie. I'll let you guess...but if you want to cheat, I found the recipe on bakerella.com.

PS - I also made some Brookie this weekend...for those of you not in the know, this term was coined by one Miss Brittany Rowan whose blog is located here. She is hilarious. She is also a walking, talking version of Twitter. If you have a term you need shortened, there's no need to go to bit.ly or tiny.url ...Brittany will think of a way to shorten it within seconds. Before it was Brittanized, Brookie was known as chocolate chip cookie dough brownies. The recipe is on Betty Crockers website, I highly recommend it.

(as Melissa would say - "Come to Mama!")