Impress your children with adorable and delicious Grinch Christmas Truffles. Besides tasting amazing, these truffles look great and go along with the popular Grinch theme for the holiday season.
Chocolate Christmas Truffles Recipe
Do you want to make an impressive treat for your children? You might want to create something that will taste good and have a unique appearance to get your children excited during the holiday season. If so, the Grinch Christmas Truffles are worth making. You will need some simple ingredients to prepare these truffles, including a box of devil’s food cake, cream cheese, and some white baking chocolate.
You might even have the ingredients needed if you like baking and keep a supply of baking ingredients in your kitchen. When following this recipe for Grinch Christmas Truffles, you will have plenty of chocolate treats to go around! You can even make these truffles as a treat to bring to a holiday part with friends and family.
The Ingredients You Will Need to Prepare the Grinch Christmas Truffles
You should have the following ingredients when preparing your Grinch Christmas Truffles:
- Devil’s Food Cake. You will use a box of cake mix to create these truffles after mixing the box mix with a few other ingredients.
- Cream Cheese Frosting. Mix your crumbled cake with the cream cheese frosting to create the perfect consistency for the truffles.
- White Baking Chocolate. Dip your cake and cream cheese truffles into white baking chocolate to make them taste even more delicious.
- Green Food Coloring. Add green food coloring to your white baking chocolate to create a Grinch-like appearance when preparing these truffles.
Besides these four ingredients, you will need water, eggs, vegetable oil, and red heart sprinkles. With less than 10 ingredients, you can prepare these Grinch Christmas Truffles.
Equipment Needed for the Truffle Recipe
- Springform Cake Pan
- Instant Pot (you can bake your cake in your oven if you prefer)
- Cake Cooling Rack
- Cookie Scoop
- Parchment Paper
- Mixing Bowl
Steps to Prepare Truffles
- Made the box cake per the instructions on the back of the box of the cake mix.
- Lightly grease your springform cake pan with cooking spray. Pour in your cake mix. Cover with aluminum foil.
- Put in 1 1/2 cups of water. Place the trivet inside the inner pot. Then place your cake pan inside your inner pot on the trivet.
- Set your Instant Pot to high pressure for 50 minutes. Once the time is up, do a manual release.
- Remove the cake pan and transfer to a cooling rack. Allow to completely cool.
- Once your cake has completely cooled, place in a large bowl, and crumble.
- Add in your frosting to the cake. Mix well.
- Using a cookie scoop, or a small spoon, grab a small amount of the cake mix. Roll the cake mix between the palm of your hands to form a ball. Place on a cookie sheet with parchment paper, and place in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- In a medium sized bowl, melt your baking chocolate in the microwave for 30 second intervals until completely melted.
- Add in your green food coloring until desired color.
- Remove your cake balls from the freezer. Dip each ball in your green chocolate. Coat completely, and transfer to a parchment paper to allow the chocolate to harden. Immediately place one heart sprinkle on the top of each truffle before the chocolate hardens.
- Once the chocolate has hardened- Enjoy!
How to Prepare the Grinch Christmas Truffles in Advance and Store Them
If you want to save time later, you can make the Grinch Christmas Truffles whenever you have the time to do so. After preparing these truffles, place them in a large container on top of parchment paper. When setting your truffles into the container, avoid putting them too close together because you do not want them to stick together.
Put a lid on your container and keep them cold by placing them in your refrigerator. The truffles will stay fresh for a week in the fridge. When you need to save them for a longer period, place them in the freezer. The Grinch Christmas Truffles stay fresh when frozen for up to six months. Freezing them comes in handy when you want to bring these truffles with you to a large family gathering.
Different Variations of the Grinch Christmas Truffles
While the recipe calls for a box of devil’s food cake mix, you can use any boxed cake mix that you like. You may want to use vanilla, strawberry, or even lemon boxed cake mix to prepare the custom truffles that will taste good. You can make different variations of the truffles, using chocolate cake mix for some and your favorite vanilla cake mix for others.
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Grinch Christmas Truffles
Chocolate cake truffles – with a Grinch theme.
Ingredients
- 1 Box Devil's Food Cake
- 3 Large Eggs
- 1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
- 1 Cup Water
- 4 Tbsp Cream Cheese Frosting
- 6 Squares White Baking Chocolate
- Green Food Coloring
- 35 Red Heart Shaped Sprinkles
Instructions
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Make the box cake per the instructions on the back of the box of the cake mix.
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Lightly grease your springform cake pan with cooking spray. Pour in your cake mix. Cover with aluminum foil.
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Place 1 1/2 cups of water. Place the trivet inside the inner pot. Place your cake pan inside your inner pot on the trivet.
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Set your Instant Pot to high pressure for 50 minutes. Once the time is up, do a manual release.
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Remove the cake pan and transfer to a cooling rack. Allow to completely cool.
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Once your cake has completely cooled, place in a large bowl, and crumble.
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Add in your frosting to the cake. Mix well.
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Using a cookie scoop, or a small spoon, grab a small amount of the cake mix. Roll the cake mix between the palm of your hands to form a ball. Place on a cookie sheet with parchment paper, and place in the freezer for 15 minutes.
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In a medium sized bowl, melt your baking chocolate in the microwave for 30 second intervals until completely melted.
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Add in your green food coloring until desired color.
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Remove your cake balls from the freezer. Dip each ball in your green chocolate. Coat completely, and transfer to a parchment paper to allow the chocolate to harden. Immediately place one heart sprinkle on the top of each truffle before the chocolate hardens.
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Once the chocolate has hardened- Enjoy!
