Best desert gift? (oops - deSSert!)

[Heather Micaela]

For some extended family members I found some second-hand christmas tins and want to fill it with some dessert-type food. I want it to be fairly simple but better than just choclate chip cookies.

I was thinking fudge or cake balls.

So which would you prefer to get?
And if I do cake balls - what flavor/recipe?

[curlymopmom]

I've never actually had cakeballs but I would think I would prefer those. How fun!

[mamaKristin]

Fudge is nice, but cakeballs can look really pretty. Although, it's more labor intensive. :think

You could do chocolate fudge with smashed up candy canes on top, or with a whole nut, or oreo fudge with chopped oreos on top. :yum

[expatmom]

I'd do cake balls. You could probably choose your combo based on what you have in your kitchen. That is what I did. I used mint extract & chocolate syrup (the drinking kind).

[poleidopy]

I'd do buckeyes (sorry, I know that wasn't an option :duck )

cakeballs get my vote then.:)

[Dana Joy]

whichever is the least labor intensive, I hate baking.

[Heather Micaela]

what on earth are buckeyes?

And cakeballs didn't seem so bad. My mom did german chocolate ones and she simply baked a chocolate cake, crumbbled it up, and added the coconout stuff

[Dana Joy]

that's still about two or three steps too many for me

[mamaKristin]

The cake part is pretty fast, I find the dipping in chocolate after part a bit long.

[Heather Micaela]

The cake part is pretty fast, I find the dipping in chocolate after part a bit long.
eh I was going to dunk and not do but one color

[expatmom]

The key is not to dip all at once. I have a bunch frozen in my freezer & have just pulled them out and dipped when I've needed them. It is a lot more manageable then.

[mamaKristin]

oh, and I generally get about 55 balls from one cake mix. In my house, it's way easier to get a whole batch of fudge out the door than it is to not eat cake balls :shifty

[Barefoot Bookworm]

I think cake balls would be fun but I've never personally had them.

I'm doing peppermint patties, Martha Washingtons (pretty much like home made Mounds), and Buckeyes (pretty much like Reese's cups but better) for my candy gifts this year.

[poleidopy]

what on earth are buckeyes?

And cakeballs didn't seem so bad. My mom did german chocolate ones and she simply baked a chocolate cake, crumbbled it up, and added the coconout stuff
buckeyes are super easy. peanut butter, butter & powdered sugar rolled into balls, then you dip the balls in chocolate. Tastes SO much better than a Reeses. :yum

[Heather Micaela]

buckeyes are super easy. peanut butter, butter & powdered sugar rolled into balls, then you dip the balls in chocolate. Tastes SO much better than a Reeses. :yum
I may just have to do this. :rockon Do you have a specific recipe I could use?

ETA: I just realized I worte DESERT recipe. Anyone for cactus juice. :lol

[poleidopy]

buckeyes: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Buckeyes-I/Detail.aspx

[Heather Micaela]

buckeyes: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Buckeyes-I/Detail.aspx
Thanks so much!:rockon