Easy Strawberry Truffles

A plate of pink strawberry truffles drizzled with white icing, with strawberries in the background.

Strawberry truffles are a beautiful little dessert that lets the strawberry flavor shine! They're easy to make with simple ingredients including strawberry cake mix, cream cheese, and pink melting wafers, and perfect for any occasion!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 30

Chilling Time 26

Servings truffles

Calories 188kcal

Author Sherri Hagymas

Ingredients

15 ounce strawberry cake mix plus the ingredients from the box instructions (water, oil, eggs), 1 box
8 ounces cream cheese 1 block
18 ounces pink candy melts approximately 1 ½ packages
12 ounces vanilla almond bark

Instructions

Prepare the strawberry cake according to package directions of the box you purchased.
15 ounce strawberry cake mix
After removing from the oven, allow the cake to cool completely.
Then crumble the entire cake into a large mixing bowl.
Line a baking sheet with parchment.
Dice the cream cheese into cubes and add them to the cake crumbles.
8 ounces cream cheese
Mix the cream cheese and cake together. I use my hands to do this but you a spoon if you' d like
Using a 1 ½ inch cookie scoop, scoop out the mixture and roll each into even sized balls.
Place them on the lined baking sheet as you make them.
Place the entire pan in the freezer and chill for 30 minutes.
Place the the pink candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and heat for 30 seconds at 60% power level.
18 ounces pink candy melts
Stir and repeat for another 30 seconds. Then stir until completely melted. Be careful not to overheat to it may seize up and be too thick.
Dip the cake balls into the melted candies. Lift out and let the excess drip off and gently tap the side of the bowl and place it back on the parchment paper.
Allow the candy to set for at least 30 minutes.
Finally place the almond bark in a microwave safe bowl and heat for 30 seconds at 60% power level. Stir and repeat for another 30 seconds then stir until completely melted.
12 ounces vanilla almond bark
Add the melted almond bark to a piping bag or plastic zip closure baggies and snip off the corner.
Drizzle the cake balls with the melted vanilla bark in a back and forth motion and let the drizzle set. You can place them in the refrigerator to speed up the process.

Notes

Instead of the white drizzle, you could add colorful sprinkles or a drizzle of dark chocolate.
Feel free to use a different color coating like a white chocolate coating made from white candy melts or white chocolate chips would be pretty too sprinkled with strawberry powder. A chocolate shell make with melted milk or or dark chocolate chips would be wonderful with the strawberry flavor too.
Add ½ - 1 cup of freeze dried strawberries crumbles. You can simply pulse them in a food processor or crush them in a plastic baggy.

Refrigerate: These truffles will stay fresh in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.

Freeze: You can freeze these truffles for up to 2 months. I like to place a piece of parchment paper or wax paper between layers in freezer bags so they don't stick together.

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