Nutella Cake Truffles

Well, this post concludes my week's worth of Nutella breakfast posts. This is not a breakfast post, well, I didn't intend it to be one, but who am I to judge what people should and should not eat for breakfast? This was simply a small sweet treat I made which also incorporated nutella. They are nutella cake truffles. Cake truffles are not completely smooth and rich like typical chocolate truffles, usually made from simple mixtures such as chocolate and whipping cream and flavored as desired. Rather cake truffles have a slightly different texture and don't tend to be quite so rich - so you can eat more of them in one sitting. Cake truffles are as simple as they sound - cake rolled into truffles. You can simply use a piece of cake and just roll it up, but alternate methods are to use leftover cake pieces or cake crumbs and combine them with enough icing to stick into round balls. This gives soft, cake-like truffles that taste much like the cake from which they were made.

To make these truffles, I simply took one piece of chocolate cake with a mocha icing. I added a heaping spoonful of nutella, then rolled the mixture into six round truffles. This was pretty messy, as the truffles were softer than most cake truffles because I added lots of nutella instead of just using the frosting. An alternate method to make nutella truffles is to use nutella cake and/or nutella frosting if you have it on hand. Either way, cake truffles are easy, fool-proof, a good way to make use of leftover cake, and delicious - especially nutella-flavored!