I wanna know where tha GOLD at!!!
Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 11:59AM 
Ok. ok. ok..... So... St Patrick's Day is right around the corner! And as always, I can not get this video out of my head.... It went viral several years back but it is still by far the funniest of all YouTube sensations...
Please partake in laughter with me.....
"I wanna know where tha GOLD at! Give me tha GOLD!"
Well, kind sir.... I'm gonna give you the gold. Gold Dusted, Rainbow Filled Cake Balls! Eeeeek!
And here is what you do....
As always, use the basic cake ball mix I have showed you 1.5 million times :). LOVE.
Start with a white cake mix and regular food coloring.
Prepare as directed on the box then separate into bowls. I used 6 different colors. I was a smarty pants and looked up the actual layers of a rainbow... it goes purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red.
I used the smallest amount of mix for purple and the largest amount for red... because purple will be the smallest amount used and red the largest amount... I hope that makes sense.
I baked them in mini loaf pans....
Love that picture!!!
So.... crumble each loaf into a bowl and add your cream cheese frosting. There is not a set amount of frosting for this gig... because the amount of cake is different for each color. I started with a Tbsp and added a bit more until it was the perfect texture.
So... now you have your basic cake ball mix... times six!
Start with a very small ball of purple....
Then you will add each color (in order of the rainbow if you are OCD like me)....
I flattened the mix out just a bit before I wrapped it around.
Once you have the previous color completely covered you just roll it in your hands to smooth the ball.
Now... you have to be careful not to add too much of each color or your cake ball will be HUGE...
Look at my first one (on the left)... compared to a regular size cake ball!
It was ginormous!!!
So you know... if you have gone back and looked at the cake ball instructions, from this point you refrigerate the cake balls for a while then dip them in candy coating.
I used chocolate. Let the coating dry then dust with Wilton's Gold Pearl Dust.
I used a regular paint brush and dusted the gold on.
Mine started out as cake pops so they were pretty easy to dust.....
Easy to dust but kind of looked TERRIBLE as pops...
probably because gold on sticks does not exist....
I'm sure it would much easier to "mine" if it was on sticks!
Anyways... the photo shoot was not going well and I almost gave up on them but as soon as took them off the sticks things got better!!
So glad I didn't give up on these beauties.
I hope you have a wonderful St Patrick's Day and if you don't feel like making GOLD you can at least make some mini cake pops...
Come on now.... you had to have known that if I was baking, something was going to get miniaturized!
Happy baking!!!!
Reader Comments (39)
aaahhhhh!! i love this! rainbow in tha middle!
AWESOME work! Those cake pops are fantabulous =) Rainbow food always tastes best!
Those are, hands down, the coolest cake balls I have ever seen!!!!!
You're so hardworking! They're absolutely beautiful.
You may have taked a long time to do thoose!!!
Beautiful work
Very cool. However, you say you were OCD about the colors but you switched the blue and green! Green should be in between yellow and blue, not blue and purple. Well done, even still.
Hahah! You're right! I got all excited during the tutorial because they were turning out so cute :)
These are so super duper cute! I feel luckier just looking at them. Let alone eating them. Taste the rainbow!
Mind= blown.
thank you!!! thank you!!!! i am in love with these little darlings... glad y'all like too!!!!
the gold is much easier if you paint it on. just mix the dust with some vanilla and paint it on with a brush
i tried to paint it one... maybe i didn't use enough vanilla? i'll def try harder to make that work next time. would it have made the gold more vibrant?
These are so adorable! I love this idea.
I love making cake pops... what a clever spin on it! :D I will be trying this soon. Thanks for posting. :)
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These are just SUPER FANTASTIC! Fabulous job!! I have never had success with cake pops! I am in awe!
Thanks for linking up to Making It With Allie! I can't wait to see what you have for next week!
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I LOVE these!
I have featured these in my St. Patty's Day Inspirations. You inspire me!!! Find the link here:
http://sunscholars.blogspot.com/2011/02/st-patricks-day-inspirations.html
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Thanks for sharing your amazing idea!!
I love these! I am so making these!! So cute way to go.
Crystal
These are amazing. Thanks for the great tutorial. I might just have to try these.
These are awesome! I'm SUPER impressed that you thought ahead a divided your batter correctly! I made rainbow waffles this week and I ended up eating a purple and blue waffle because I made the same amount of each color:)
Oh my goodness! These look delicious! I must make these for our next family gathering.
(Visiting from Sweet Tooth Friday! Stop by and see my Honey Lemon Biscotti @ http://ministrytomotherhood.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/honey-lemon-biscotti/)
Thanks so much for sharing another wonderful way to make cake balls. I can't wait to try these. I have a bit of obsession when it comes to these yummy treats. These are so clever.
I had to share the post on my Shout Out Sunday post this week, plus am going to share with my facebook readers. I love this that much!
Oh thanks!!!! I'm gotta check out your site!!!
Wow! I love these! They look incredible!!!
Ashley
www.simplydesigning.blogspot.com
These are amazing! Thanks for fueling my cake ball addiction! :-)
I featured your darling rainbow loveliness in my roundup!
http://funkypolkadotgiraffe.blogspot.com/2011/03/true-confessions-rainbow-addiction.html