PinFacebookTweetEmailShare Jump to RecipeRed Velvet cake pops with red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting in the filling, plus a white chocolate coating.These are so great as hostess or holiday gifts.Plus, you can also dye half green and make a box of red and green truffles.

These red velvet cake pops are one of my favorite holiday food gifts to make! Have you ever made a cake truffle or a cake pop? It’s essentially cake, crumbled and mixed with frosting until it sticks together in a compact little ball.Then, after a quick chill session, the cake ball is dunked in a coating to make it pretty.I used the recipe for my small batch red velvet  cupcakes to make these red velvet truffles, but I have a few notes about this.

The recipe below is almost identical to the cupcakes, and uses 4 cupcakes to make a small batch of 10 truffles.However, you can easily double the recipe, bake it in a 6″ mini cake pan and get twice the cake truffles.When I’m making these red velvet cake pops as gifts, I double the recipe.

In my slightly expert opinion, I’ve found that 4 little truffles tucked into a small box is the perfect gifting size.How to make red velvet cake pops: The video for this recipe uses the 6″ cake pan method to make the cake for the truffles.Alternatively, you can make the cupcakes.

Remember: 4 cupcakes makes TEN truffles; adapt the recipe accordingly.Regardless, we’re still crumbling lots of red velvet cake to make red velvet cake pops! Here

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