Orange Cake Truffles

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 15mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    12
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    260

Make these little treats for your Halloween party. This recipe makes a lot of truffles so you can freeze half the cake and icing wrapped tightly for up to one month and only make half the buttercream.

recipe updated Jun 4, 2025

Ingredients

  • Unsalted butter icon
    Unsalted butter
    200 g
  • Orange candy melts icon
    Orange candy melts
    as needed
  • Caster sugar icon
    Caster sugar
    100 g
  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    100 g
  • Baking powder icon
    Baking powder
    1 teaspoon
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    2
  • Icing sugar icon
    Icing sugar
    200 g
  • Orange extract icon
    Orange extract
    1 teaspoon
  • Orange zest icon
    Orange zest
    as needed

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon kCook Multi
  • kCook icon Square pan - 8"
  • kCook icon Large mixing bowl
  • kCook icon Baking tray - large

Step preview

  1. Preheat the oven - 180ºC
  2. Line the tin with parchment paper
  3. Fit the Knife Blade (or Max Blade for kCook Multi)
  4. Add the ingredients into the appliance bowl, attach the lid
  5. Mix without the filler cap - 1 minute 30 seconds, speed 8
  6. Transfer the batter into the tin
  7. Bake – 25 minutes, 180ºC
  8. Remove from the oven and let cool
  9. Crumble the cooled cake into a large bowl and set aside
  10. Clean the appliance bowl and fit the Whisk Tool
  11. Add the ingredients into the appliance bowl, attach the lid
  12. Mix and then scrape the bowl – 1 minute, speed 5
  13. Mix – 4 minutes, speed 7
  14. Add the icing into the cake crumbs and mix until combined
  15. Roll the mixture into balls and place them onto the baking tray
  16. Chill in the fridge until set – 30 minutes
  17. Coat the chilled balls into melted orange candy melts
  18. Sprinkle with orange zest and let set
  19. Serve
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