These Birthday Cake Truffles are fun, easy to make, and bright, colorful treats that are great for birthday celebrations or any day!
If you're looking to make treats for any celebration, you can't go wrong with sprinkles and funfetti!
We love making these funfetti pancakes for birthday breakfasts. And these funfetti cookie bars are delicious, colorful treats to make that are portable and party perfect.
For adorable bite-sized confetti sweets, make these birthday cake truffles. It's an easy recipe that is great to make for birthday parties, bridal and baby showers, brunches, and anytime afternoon treats!
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🌟 Why this recipe works
Colorful, crunchy, and sweet, these birthday cake truffles are not only fun to eat, they're also fun to make!
- Fast: You don't need a lot of time to make these truffles. A whole batch comes together in only about 30 minutes.
- Make ahead: Whipping up a batch for a party? You can easily make them ahead of time and save them in the fridge or freezer.
- Just a few, affordable ingredients: These truffles use common ingredients you may already have in your pantry. And they won't break the bank.
- Great to make with kids: Your kids will love helping you roll out the truffle fillings and decorating them with sprinkles. And of course, tasting them when they're done!
🛒 Ingredient notes
- Funfetti cake mix - This serves as part of the base for the truffles. And it comes with sprinkles already added!
- Almond flour - This creates a denser truffle and adds some nuttiness.
- Almond bark - Chopped and melted to coat the truffles.
- Butter - To help bind all of the ingredients.
- Sugar - For added sweetness.
- Vanilla - This gives the truffles a deeper, richer flavor.
- Coconut oil - Helps the melted almond bark set and give you that classic truffle coating shell.
- Sprinkles - For colorful decoration, inside and out!
✅ Step-by-step instructions
Ready to get started? Here's an overview with step-by-step photos for how to make these delicious truffles. You'll find the full ingredients and detailed instructions in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Pretreat the almond flour and funfetti cake mix by baking them on a baking sheet in a 350°F oven for 5 minutes.
- In a food processor, pulse the funfetti cake mix, almond flour, butter, sugar, and vanilla until a dough forms.
NOTE: Don't skip the first step of pre-treating the flours! Not all funfetti cake mixes contain pre-treated flour. Raw flour is unsafe to eat, according to the FDA. Baking the cake mix and the almond flour just for 5 minutes in a 350°F oven makes it safe to eat.
- Move the dough to a bowl and mix in most of the sprinkles.
- Use a small cookie scoop to scoop out the dough, then gently roll the dough into balls with your hands.
- Place the balls onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and freeze for 10 minutes.
- Then move on to the coating, starting with melting the chopped almond bark in a glass bowl in the microwave.
- Microwave the bark for 30-second intervals, whisking periodically until smooth.
- Then whisk in the coconut oil.
- Grab the dough balls from the freezer and use two forks to carefully dip each one into the melted coating.
- Place them back on the sheet and decorate with sprinkes right away.
- When finished, chill the truffles in the fridge for 20 minutes, then enjoy!
👩🏻🍳 Recipe FAQs
While this recipe uses a funfetti cake mix, not all such mixes have pre-treated flour. And eating raw flour can cause food poisoning. To help avoid this, bake both the cake mix and the almond flour for 5 minutes in a 350°F oven.
Yes you can, but I find that the almond flour gives these truffles a thicker texture, as well as some nice nutty flavor.
Keep them in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days. You can also freeze them in an airtight container for up to 3 months. Simply let them thaw a bit at room temperature when you're ready to eat them.
🍽 Serving ideas
While you could simple enjoy a few of these as a stand-alone snack, these tasty truffles also go great with other sweet treats.
Add them to a colorful Valentine's Day dessert board or Easter charcuterie board. Or serve them alongside some game day snacks.
You could even make a selection of other truffles, like cozy gingerbread truffles and boozy honey bourbon truffles, and give them to friends as gifts.
🍳 Kitchen tools and equipment
Ready to make this recipe? Here are the kitchen tools and equipment you'll need:
- Baking sheets - Use durable baking sheets to pre-treat the flours and chill the truffle dough.
- Large mixing bowl - These colorful mixing bowls are as fun as the truffles!
- Small cookie scoop - This scoop makes perfectly sized truffles.
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Birthday Cake Truffles
Equipment
- 1 Small cookie scoop
Ingredients
- 1½ cups funfetti cake mix
- ½ cup almond flour
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ¼ cup sprinkles, divided
- 16 ounces almond bark, roughly chopped or white candy melts
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil, melted then cooled slightly (see Notes)
Instructions
Heat the flours
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Add the funfetti cake mix and the almond flour onto the parchment paper and spread out slightly so they are thinned out across the whole pan.
- Bake at 350°F for 5 minutes. Allow to cool slightly. Set aside the parchment paper lined baking sheet as you'll use it again.
Make the truffle filling
- To a food processor, add the funfetti cake mix, almond flour, softened butter, sugar, flour, and vanilla. Pulse until the ingredients are combined and a dough forms.
- Transfer the dough to a large bowl. Add all except for about 1 Tablespoonful of the sprinkles, setting aside the Tablespoonful to use for the decoration.
- Mix the rest of the sprinkles into the dough until well incorporated.
- Using a small cookie scoop, scoop out the dough, then press between your hands to help the dough stick together, and then gently roll into a ball. If some of the dough crumbles while trying to form the dough ball, continue to press it together in your hands until it stays together, then very gently roll it into a ball between the palms of your hands.
- Place onto the prepared baking sheet and repeat until you've used all of the dough.
- Freeze the truffle balls for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, make the coating.
Make the coating
- Add the chopped almond bark to a large microwave-safe bowl and microwave in 30-second intervals, whisking in between intervals, until the bark coating is smooth.
- Whisk in the coconut oil.
- After the dough has been in the freezer for 10 minutes, use two forks to carefully dip each dough ball into the coating, then return to the baking sheet. Immediately add some sprinkles to the top while the coating is still wet, before it sets.
- Repeat coating and sprinkling the remaining truffles.
- Chill in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes to allow the coating to set completely before enjoying.
Notes
- The measurement for coconut oil is for solid coconut oil. So measure out 1 teaspoon of solid coconut oil, then melt.
- Don't skip the first step of pre-treating the flours! Not all funfetti cake mixes contain pre-treated flour. Raw flour is unsafe to eat, according to the FDA. Baking the cake mix and the almond flour just for 5 minutes in a 350°F oven makes it safe to eat.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is a general estimate. Actual nutrition details may vary depending on the exact foods & brands you use to make this recipe. It does not take into account any substitutions, toppings, or optional ingredients.
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