An easy two ingredient recipe that can be transformed into endless varieties for your next celebration.

Generally speaking, I’m not big on making desserts. Do I bake? Of course I do. Would I rather make pasta and cocktails? Of course I would. I’m in the process of putting together a dessert board to make use of a beautiful black walnut charcuterie board my boyfriend made, and I needed some fun additions to it. I love truffles, they’re small and portable- but not easy to make. I did not have the desire to spend 4 hours making one part of my dessert board, so we’re taking a short cut. A major short cut. For these chocolate cake mix truffles we’re using (you guessed it) a box of cake mix. And a block of cream cheese.

I would usually turn my snobby nose up at the thought of dumping cake mix and cream cheese into a mixer and calling it a truffle, but I don’t care today. Quite frankly, these are delicious and exactly what my soul needed this week.

*I’m using chocolate cake mix for these (obviously), but use whichever flavor you like. I tried funfetti, and it was repulsive. I recommend sticking with core flavors, like red velvet or vanilla*

The long list of ingredients for chocolate cake mix truffles:

• 8 oz block of cream cheese, softened
• 1 box of regular size cake mix (432g)
• topping of your choosing, I used sprinkles and cocoa powder for these but you may want to coat them in chocolate- have at it

Making the mixture

Cut up the softened cream cheese into chunks, and toss it into a mixer. Using the paddle attachment, run on speed two until cream cheese is creamy and no longer holds a block shape. Add the cake mix to the bowl and mix until combined. Below is how the mixture will look, it will come together but be a little loose (this was the funfetti flavor-again I do not recommend).

Place the mixture into a container and chill for one hour. Don’t skip steps here- it needs to chill. Longer is fine, but don’t short cut this. We’re already using cake mix for truffles how fast do you need these?!

After an hour, roll into balls. I used a cookie scoop for portioning. This is where I realized the funfetti flavor was less than great. Roll the balls into whichever topping you choose.

Chill until ready to serve, and enjoy! How pretty are these rainbow truffles?!

Questions? Leave me a comment- and let me know which flavors/variations you’ve tried!

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