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Cake-Based Candy Recipes

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Let them eat cake! In the form of candy, that is. Cakes, brownies, quick breads, and muffins are at the heart of these tempting candy recipes. Put those sweet leftovers to good use making cake pops, brownie truffles, cake-based fudge, and much more. 

1. Cake Pop Recipes

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Cake pops, moist bites of cake and frosting on a stick, are all the rage now! Check out this collection of cake pop recipes, which also includes brownie pops, cheesecake pops, and seasonal cake pop variations.

2. Red Velvet Cake Truffles

Red Velvet Cake Truffles(c) 2011 Elizabeth LaBau, licensed to About.com, Inc.
Red Velvet Cake Truffles are simply balls of delicious red velvet cake mixed with real cream cheese frosting. The truffles are then dipped in candy coating, for a moist, sweet, and tangy cake bite in candy form! You can use this recipe with any flavor of cake or frosting. There's also a photo tutorial showing how to make red velvet cake truffles.

3. Strawberry Shortcake Truffles

Strawberry shortcake(c) 2008 Elizabeth LaBau, licensed to About.com, Inc.
Moist, tender cake and sweet berries are blended into a smooth truffle filling and covered in vanilla-scented white chocolate in this recipe for Strawberry Shortcake Truffles. This is a great way to use up leftover yellow or pound cake.

4. Lava Cake Truffles

Lava Cake Truffles(c) 2012 Elizabeth LaBau, licensed to About.com, Inc.
Are they truffles? Are they cake balls? Actually, they're both! These indulgent candies have a soft truffle center surrounded by a rich chocolate cake mixture. They're finished with a dunking in more chocolate, to make them the perfect portable, pop-able dessert!

5. Doughnut Truffles

Doughnut Truffles photo(c) 2012 Elizabeth LaBau, licensed to About.com, Inc.
If you love the taste of doughnuts, you will love these Doughnut Truffles. Instead of using cake crumbs, you use real doughnuts to make the candy. The result is a batch of adorable miniature truffles that not only look like doughnuts, but taste exactly like them too!

6. German Chocolate Fudge

German chocolate fudge(c) 2008 Elizabeth LaBau, licensed to About.com, Inc.
These gooey, delicious bars are a cross between cake, fudge, and truffles. Real chocolate cake is mixed into a chocolate ganache base, topped with rich chocolate-pecan frosting, and finished with silky ganache.

7. Brownie Truffles

brownie truffles(c) 2008 Elizabeth LaBau, licensed to About.com, Inc.
Brownie Truffles are made from baked brownies and raspberry jam, so the candies have a rich chocolate-raspberry flavor. These delicious treats are dipped in chocolate to make an easy, elegant dessert. This recipe is a great way to use up old or slightly stale brownies.

8. Fruitcake Truffles

Fruitcake Truffles(c) 2011 Elizabeth LaBau, licensed to About.com, Inc.
This is one fruitcake recipe you'll actually want to eat! Transform those ubiquitous holiday fruitcakes from "gross" to "great" by making them into cake truffles or cake pops. When mixed with frosting and formed into balls, lackluster fruitcake becomes moist, spicy bites of candy studded with fruit and spices.

9. Red Velvet Truffle Cups

Red Velvet Truffle Cups photo(c) 2013 Elizabeth LaBau, licensed to About.com, Inc.
Red Velvet Truffle Cups are chocolate cups filled with a soft, silky white chocolate-red velvet truffle mixture. The combination of semi-sweet chocolate and smooth red velvet-flavored ganache is incredible!

10. Red Velvet Crispy Treats

Red Velvet Crispy Treats photo(c) 2013 Elizabeth LaBau, licensed to About.com, Inc.
If you like regular rice crispy treats, you will love this cake-flavored version! Real red velvet cake mix is added to rice crispy treats to produce a chewy, crispy candy loaded with red velvet taste. Add a drizzle of white chocolate to complete the comparison.
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