Pinterest fail: Cake balls.

So I know there's A LOT of blogs out there consisting of Pinterest fails (and successes), but I'm going to post some of my own anyway because I've had some pretty epic ones and thought my friends might enjoy reading about them.

Epic Fail: Pumpkin cream cheese cake balls.

I jumped at the chance to make these. I mean come on, it's pumpkin and cream cheese.
Problem number 1: I couldn't find this Pillsbury pumpkin cake mix it calls for ANYWHERE. So in the end I opted for red velvet, since that's pretty much just as good.

Problem number 2: getting the balls to stay together was quite a task. I ended up using the whole can of cream cheese frosting instead of just half of the can like the recipe says.

And here's where the epic fail comes in; trying to coat those little bastards. They fell apart, everywhere. It just wasn't pretty at all.
After talking to a friend a little bit later she let me in on a secret, one which really should have been listed within this recipe but was not, you need to freeze those little balls of cake before you even consider trying to coat them in anything. I'll remember that for future reference but for now my cake ball making aspirations have been pushed to the back burner thanks to this fiasco.