In the eight years of baking, I have learnt one thing, never panic when a recipe goes wrong. Once you panic, anything you do after that will be doubly wrong and you will have to turn everything to garbage. But be cool and you will find a way to do something with it. When I made some fudge cupcakes a while back, for the first batch, I filled the cupcake liners way too much (I didn’t even guess that the batter will overflow) and I had a tray full of over flowed cupcakes which were not at all presentable. The cupcake tray was filled with the cake and I didn’t know what to do. I scraped everything on to a bowl and removed the cakes from the liners and allowed it to cool. The next batch, I filled them with half the batter and baked at lower temperature and the cupcakes were fine. But unfortunately the larger batch was in the first tray, so I had so much fudge left over from the project. I just refrigerated the box and left it for a day before any idea of making it edible came to my mind.
I was also in the process of making ladoos for this week’s theme while I got an idea for the left over fudge. The fudge was so tasty and I know my daughter might finish it off if I don’t do anything with that. I turned the fudge into ladoos and coated them with sprinkles. That is it, amazing fudge balls were ready. My daughter took it to her friends and got a thank you note from her friend. How amazing! This is not like the usual fudge. Bake it in a tin and scoop out the balls. The texture is so much like brownie and it is so chocolaty. For the coating, you can use cocoa powder to make it way too easier. Or use any other topping option you might like. It will make a great party dessert.
Makes 2 Dozen Balls
Ingredients:
Maida / All purpose Flour – 200 gm
Cocoa Powder – 4 tbs
Baking Soda – 1 1/4 tsp
Baking Powder – 1/2 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Sugar – 100 gm
Vanilla – 1 tsp
Butter – 100 gm
Milk – 200 ml
Vinegar – 1 tsp
Milk Chocolate – 240 gm
Sprinkles To Coat
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 160°C.
In a bowl add butter and chocolate and melt them either on a double boiler or in MW.
In another bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, salt and cocoa powder.
Add milk, vinegar and vanilla and mix to incorporate.
Finally add in the melted butter and chocolate mix and combine to form a smooth batter.
Pour in a greased 8″ square tin and bake for 25 – 30 minutes. The cake may be slightly gooey. Do not wait for the tooth pick to come out clean.
Just mix the cake while still hot so that you don’t end up with a crisp skin.
Allow it to cool completely in the tin it self.
Cover with a cling film and refrigerate for one hour.
Use a scoop or a table spoon to take portions of the fudge and roll it into a ball.
Take the sprinkle on a plate and roll the ball on it so that the sprinkle stick evenly to the balls.
Place in individual mini cup cake liners and refrigerate until firm.
Serve chilled.
This was the cupcake project I was doing. Will shortly share a video for this too.

Egg Free Dark Chocolate Fudge Balls - Easy Kid's Treats
Ingredients
- Maida / All purpose Flour - 200 gm
- Cocoa Powder - 4 tbs
- Baking Soda - 1 1/4 tsp
- Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
- Salt - 1/4 tsp
- Sugar - 100 gm
- Vanilla- 1 tsp
- Butter - 100 gm
- Milk - 200 ml
- Vinegar - 1 tsp
- Milk Chocolate - 240 gm
- Sprinkles To Coat
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160°C.
- In a bowl add butter and chocolate and melt them either on a double boiler or in MW.
- In another bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, salt and cocoa powder.
- Add milk, vinegar and vanilla and mix to incorporate.
- Finally add in the melted butter and chocolate mix and combine to form a smooth batter.
- Pour in a greased 8" square tin and bake for 25 - 30 minutes. The cake may be slightly gooey. Do not wait for the tooth pick to come out clean.
- Just mix the cake while still hot so that you don't end up with a crisp skin.
- Allow it to cool completely in the tin it self.
- Cover with a cling film and refrigerate for one hour.
- Use a scoop or a table spoon to take portions of the fudge and roll it into a ball.
- Take the sprinkle on a plate and roll the ball on it so that the sprinkle stick evenly to the balls.
- Place in individual mini cup cake liners and refrigerate until firm.
- Serve chilled.
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Lucky Shruti ‘s friends ! The chocolate balls look and sound so tempting . I guess we have to wait for the BM 100 meet to eat some of these :))
What a nice way to use up excess fudge! Even kids don’t get bored of the same fudge when it is presented as a totally different dish/goodie.
The fudge balls are a nice way to use up the extra fudge and those sprinkles add a colorful touch.
What a lovely way to convert cake into these pops… and kids would just gobble it down in full speed… whenever a recipe fails, I also try to figure out how I can recycle it. For me mostly it happens with breads…
wow.. Beautifull .. I love the cute sprinkles over the fudge balls.. Beautifully done..
My grandmother used to say cooking is a talent but fixing cooking disasters is a bigger talent. So you my friend have ultimate cooking skills 🙂 These chocolate balls look amazing and sound just the perfect thing to do with the overflowing cupcakes.
Wow this chocolate balls looks so nice and specially the sprinklers have added the perfect touch to it. Children love sprinklers and this a treat to them.
That’s some moral Gayathri, like it..:0)..and this treat is surely sinful!
wow first of all kudos to your presence of mind to convert these to something so addictive and amazing looking fudge. They look so yummy and am drooling here. Those confetti’s are perfectly struck to the fudge without overlapping wonderfully presented gayathri 🙂
I always feel that the most creative ideas strike when we least expect it and that is what happened in your case and you came up with this brilliant creation. Very festive looking.
Wow those choco fudge balls look super addictive and no wonders Shruti and her friend loved them.
I can imagine how delicious this brownie like fudges will be. And they are simply catchy and very attractive to indulge some.
Fudge balls look so yummy Gayathri. They look so addicitive
Yes, when we have a cool mind we can think of innovative ways to turn our kitchen disasters into success. The coating of sprinkles is making these balls look quite attractive for kids.
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These choco fudge balls look lovely and such a lovely idea of turning it into laddoos
these look so pretty the way you decorated them