Pumpkin Spice Cake Balls

This recipe takes a little more time than some of the others I have posted. First, you have to bake pumpkin bread. Then, you have to let that cool. You then mix the pumpkin bread with cream cheese and roll into balls. Then those have to chill in the refrigerator. Then you dip them in melted white chocolate and let them chill again. And THEN you get to eat them. It's a lengthy process, but well worth the wait!

Ingredients:

Pumpkin Bread – Adapted from Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook

1 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 cup canned pumpkin

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla

3/4 cup + 1 tablespoon buttermilk

Directions: 

1. Preheat oven to 350. 

2. Mix pumpkin and sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, oil and vanilla and continue to mix.

3. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. 

4. Alternate adding dry ingredients and buttermilk to pumpkin mix – beginning and ending with dry ingredients. 

5. Pour into loaf pan. Bake 45-55 minutes.

When the pumpkin bread got out of the oven I immediately crumbled it up in a bowl and put it in the refrigerator. It needs to be completely cool before you move on to the next step. Now on to the cake balls.

Ingredients:

Pumpkin bread

8 oz cream cheese

2 bags Nestle white chocolate chips (may need vegetable oil to thin)

Directions:

1. Once pumpkin bread is cooled completely, mix with block of room temperature cream cheese.

2. Form into balls and set on cookie sheet with wax paper. 

3. Put in refrigerator for 30 minutes.

4. Melt white chocolate chips (I used about 1.5 bags of the chocolate chips). I melt the chips in the microwave for about 1.5 min. I had to add a little vegetable oil to thin the chocolate.

5. Use a spoon to dip the balls into the chocolate. Set balls back on wax paper.

6. Chill in the refrigerator for another 30 minutes.

These are pretty rich, so watch out! They will sneak up on you. I have learned from experience, as I am currently coming down from a massive sugar high.