Chocolate Cake Truffles

Recipe Number 2!

I initially made these a while ago in July, and I made a new batch tonight, so here is the recipe and photos of tonight's creation. They are super duper tasty.

Chocolate Cake Truffles

The original recipe called for 5 oz of crumbled cake, instead I roughly tripled the recipe for a 16 oz (1 pound), 1 box of cake mix.

Ingredients:

-16 oz (1 lb) Chocolate Cake, crumbled (app. 1 box)

-6 Tablespoons of Butter

-6 Tablespoons of Cocoa Powder

-3/4 cup Powdered Sugar

-9 Tablespoons of Orange Juice

-1 whole Orange

Crumble Cake, sift Cocoa Powder, and Powdered Sugar. Remove lumps.

Melt butter, and pour over cake crumble mix.

Add 9 Tablespoons of Orange Juice (or 2 Tablespoons of Vanilla Extract, 7 Tablespoons of OJ)

Mix lightly, add zest of orange, and combine.

Place wax paper on cookie sheet, roll mix into balls, refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Decorate as desired. Suggestions: Melted Dark, Milk, and White Chocolate Chips. Melt half of bag to cover, crush or food process other half for decoration. Refrigerate leftovers.

Truffles from July:



Tonight's Truffles:

I dolloped melted Milk Chocolate Chips on the truffles sitting on the baking sheet, and drizzled melted White Chocolate Chips on top.

Golden Grain Mission Florentine Lasagna

Via Steph's request, I will be posting some recipes that I have made and liked over here :) I will start printing out these recipes for my own recipe cookbook binder...thingy. And also own my cooking/baking skills at the same time. So enjoy, and here is the official part one, as it were.

I saw this recipe on the box of lasagna noodles a while ago, and knew I had to make it, so I made it tonight :)


Florentine Lasagna

15 Min Prep Time - 40 Min Cook Time - Serves 6

Ingredients:

8ox (1/2 pkg) Lasagna Noodles
1 Container (15 oz) Ricotta Cheese
2 Cups shredded fresh Spinach Leaves
2 Eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 Teaspoons Garlic Powder
Salt and Pepper to taste
1 Jar (26 oz) Spaghetti Sauce
2 Cups (8 oz) Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

Directions:

Preheat over to 400 degrees F.
Cook and drain pasta according to package directions
In bowl, combine ricotta, spinach, eggs, garlic powder, and salt and pepper to taste
Spread 1/2 cup spaghetti sauce in 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
Layer with 3 lasagna noodles, half of ricotta, 1/2 cup of mozzarella, and 1/2 of sauce.
Repeat layers once.
Top with remaining lasagna, sauce, and mozzarella.
Bake uncovered in oven for 35 to 40 minutes.





Well, one's own pictures never look as good as the actual pictures on the recipe, do they? :P (How do they make them so pretty and colorful, I wonder?)
But the dish was 1) Easy to make (much easier than the other veggie lasagna that I tried, which I didn't care for as much as I hoped taste wise either) 2) Smelled so good while it was baking 3) Was tasty.
We've never been a big lasagna eating family, but this one is good, and uncomplicated. And very festive with it's yellow cheesy, red, and green combo. Mozzarella cheese is always good, I say. I think I'll defiantly make this one again.