St Patrick's Day Cake Truffles

These St Patrick's Day Cake Truffles are the perfect way to add a bit of extra colour to any Paddy's Day celebrations. Super-easy to make with just a few ingredients, these cake truffles offer maximum visual appeal with only the minimum effort!

The sponge for the St Patrick's Day Cake Truffles is actually steamed in the microwave and takes only 3.5 minutes to cook! I've never successfully made a microwave mug cake - mine always turn out really tough and chewy - but I've never had a problem with this microwave steamed sponge recipe. It's from a really old falling-to-pieces Be-Ro Flour recipe book!

This recipe makes around 20 St Patrick's Day Cake Truffles.

Ingredients

Sponge

50g butter

50g sugar

1 egg

125g self-raising flour

1tbsp milk

Cream cheese mix

30g butter

55g cream cheese

1/2tsp vanilla extract

1 cup icing sugar

Green food colouring

Coating

100g white chocolate

Green food colouring

Recipe

1. To make the sponge, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Mix in the egg and a little flour.

2. Fold in the remaining flour and mix in the milk. Pour the mixture into a greased microwavable dish and cook on full for 3.5 minutes.

3. After cooking, remove the dish from the microwave and leave to cool for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, make the cream cheese frosting. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter, cream cheese and vanilla until smooth - for about 1 minute on medium. Add the powdered sugar and mix for another minute. Scrape down the sides and beat for a final minute on high. Adding a few drops at a time and mixing in between, add enough green food colouring to give you the shade of green you're looking for

4. After the sponge has cooled, crumble it with your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs. 

5. A spoonful at a time, add all the cream cheese frosting to the crumbed sponge and mix together well. Form the mixture into about 20 small balls, place them on a baking tray and put them in the fridge for at least a few hours until hardened.

6. When hardened, separate the chocolate into two small bowls and melt in the microwave or over a pan of simmering water. Into one bowl, add a couple of drops of green food colouring until you have the desired shape of green. Dip half the cake balls into the white chocolate and half the cake balls into the green chocolate - hopefully you'll have a little of both chocolates left over. 

7. Put the cake balls back on the baking tray and leave to set again in the fridge for at least an hour. When set, remove from the fridge and drizzle with the other colour chocolate.

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