Review: Sugar Overload, Work Overload
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2013
I can't imagine eating one of these. I was expecting some method for baking cakelets of some sort. Instead, "cake balls" are cake crumbs mixed with frosting, then over-frosted for decoration. I can't imagine going to the trouble to bake a cake to crumble it, and make it a junior partner with a wad of frosting. I do keep imagining these began with a cake that stuck right before a child's birthday party, and, yeah, kids will eat sugar bombs like this. So will adults who have never adjusted to their metabolic changes. I keep seeing someone washing these down with a big glass of that sugar-saturated Southern "sweet tea."Most people I know want to keep the sugar load down: if anything, I tend to wind up with frosting left over from old recipes, and putting it on plain drop cookies. These would go over poorly.The instructions look fine, the recipes are probably great if these are all the rage in your sub-culture, but I quit reading after several of them, simply because I would never make them. You might look over them as frostings that can double as candies when pressed or dropped, as they ought to be fairly stiff.