Recipe: Cake Mix Truffles (cake balls using jello and preserves)

CAKE MIX TRUFFLES

1 (18.5 oz.) pkg. cake mix*
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened
1 (3 oz.) pkg. fruit flavored Jello
1/2 cup confectioners (10x) sugar
1/2 cup preserves (raspberry, strawberry, apricot, etc.)
1 tsp. vanilla
2 pkgs. (8 oz. each) chocolate chips
1 tsp. Crisco vegetable shortening (coconut oil should work too)

Make cake mix as package directs, cool.

In 3 quart saucepan, over medium heat, melt butter; add Jello powder and sugar, stir until smooth. Add preserves and vanilla. Stir until smooth. Remove from heat.

Crumble cake into Jello mixture. Mix until well blended and moist. Roll into 1-inch balls. Chill in freezer, approximately 1 hour.

Melt chocolate chips and Crisco over water, low heat. Stir until smooth.

Dip balls in chocolate, cool on wire racks until chocolate sets. Refrigerate on wax paper.

*Use cake mix to match Jello and preserves: strawberry cake, strawberry Jello and strawberry preserves; orange cake, orange Jello and apricot preserves; chocolate cake, raspberry Jello and raspberry preserves (for more chocolate taste, substitute 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa, instead of Jello.)

Source unknown - 1990's