adventures in baking (and failed attempts)

thanksgiving was satisfying, to say the least. i had some good turkey and took a great nap afterwards and loafed around my aunt's house doing absolutely nothing (besides play a round of guitar hero).

i made bakerella's cake balls for my part in the thanksgiving feast with the fambam, and they turned out awesome. i'd tried to do it once with adam -- a half-assed attempt for the sake of doing it, of course -- and they turned out like this:


gross cake balls.

appealing, right? i know. we had fun with them though, turning them into hilarious shapes (one of them being an actual turd). visually? they make me want to vomit.
taste-wise? if you don't pay attention to the fact that they look like actual pieces of shit, they were just smushed cake and frosting. kind of bland, but i didn't really care.

so after this mess of a plan, i decided to wait a couple weeks for thanksgiving to roll around so i could actually do justice to these things. i bought coconut to mix in, chocolate chips (for the coating), and went to it. after a lot of mess and a lazy helper who kept eating the cake before it'd even been cooled, this awesomeness was born:

LOLZ DECENT CAKEBALL!

and they were cakey and delicious and soooo worth it.