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Edible Wool Ball Cakes
Colourful wool-ball-shaped sponge cakes filled with sweet cream cheese and decorated with tinted buttercream.
From YouTube · Jan 29, 2026
Colourful wool-ball-shaped sponge cakes filled with sweet cream cheese and decorated with tinted buttercream.
50 min
Prep time
15 min
Cook time
1 hr 45 min
Total time
6 servings
Yield
Ingredients
15 ingredientsAdjust servings
Ingredients and nutrition update together
Per serving721 kcal
- Fat
- 42.7g
- Carbs
- 75g
- Protein
- 11.7g
Whole recipe (6 servings): 4326 kcal
- COLOURED BUTTERCREAM
- 80 g butter, softened
- 100 g icing sugar
- 150 g cream cheese
- Blue, pink and yellow food colouring
- SPONGE
- 2 eggs
- 1 pinch salt
- 100 g sugar
- 40 ml vegetable oil
- 10 g baking powder
- 150 ml milk
- 200 g plain flour
- FILLING AND DECORATION
- 200 g cream cheese
- 100 g sweetened condensed milk
- 30 g white chocolate
Method
18 steps- Preheat the oven to 170°C (338°F).
- Grease and line a shallow cake tin.
- Beat the softened butter, icing sugar and 150 g cream cheese until smooth.
- Divide the buttercream and tint the portions blue, pink and yellow.
- Whisk the eggs, salt and sugar until pale and foamy.
- Add the vegetable oil and milk.
- Sift in the flour and baking powder.
- Mix gently until the batter is smooth.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin.
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes.
- Leave the sponge to cool completely.
- Mix the remaining 200 g cream cheese with the condensed milk.
- Crumble or divide the cooled sponge into six portions.
- Shape each portion around some cream cheese filling to form a ball.
- Chill the filled cake balls until firm.
- Pipe the coloured buttercream over the balls in strands to resemble wool.
- Melt the white chocolate and shape small decorative knitting needles.
- Attach the chocolate decorations and chill until ready to serve.
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Per serving: 721 calories
Fat: 43 g · Carbs: 75 g · Protein: 12 g
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