Leprechaun Hat Cake Balls

So I made these last year with the brownie mold, but this time I thought I could make them better with cake balls.

What you need:
Cake balls (one cake mix baked, crumbled, and mixed with a tube or home made cream cheese frosting)
Melted chocolate for candy dipping
Fondant (or green licorice)
Mini M&Ms
Fudge Striped cookies

I rolled my cake balls into the size and shape of large marshmallows. Then stuck them in the freezer while I prepared everything else.


I cut strips of green fondant. I didn't measure exactly I just did what I thought looked good on the hat. I guess about 5 inch x 3/8 inch.Melted my chocolate
Got out my M&Ms, cookies.
I found the best way to dip is to have the name brand with the holes. That way I can dip the cake ball on a stick, lightly tap off excess chocolate then bring the cookie up around the stick and pull the stick out. It keep the process easy and a lot less messy.
Then you can wrap the fondant around (when the chocolate is still wet or after its cooled, doesn't matter)
Last, use a toothpick to dab some chocolate on the M&M and stick it on!

St Paddy's

Like many other families, we build traps the day before St Patricks day to trap our leprechaun. Of course he seems to always get away and his gold turns to chocolate.... so we haven't hit the jackpot yet. We even bribed our little man with mini Irish Drink. This is build out of a outmeal box. This lid is almost cut completely away so that when he goes for the drinks he falls through the center!

Here are a couple treats I made for St Patricks day parties.

The pretzels are dipped in white chocolate first then the other two crossed over each other.

The cute hat idea I got from my sister at her blog. But instead of marshmellows I made brownie bites. They taste better that way, but they look cuter with marshmellows.