My First Cake Pops

I agree I am not the best baker in the world nor do I claim to know what I am doing, but today was a good day for baking in this house. I have been wanting to make these glamorous cake pops I've seen everywhere, and asked a few people if it was easy or not.

Well here's my story......

I mixed the cake batter according to directions on box and baked it in two 8" round pans

After cooling for 20 minutes I cut both pieces in half put it into a freezer bag and let it chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Get ready to get dirty.....

Crumble the cake into very small crumbs, its time consuming if you do not have a big mixer but you'll live.

Add frosting to the crumbled cake and mix well, if you do not have a mixer get in there and use those hands to mix it around. Do not add too much frosting and make it gooey.

Roll cake into a ball and place on wax paper on a pan let this chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Start melting the candy melts according to directions and I got the sticks ready. I bought the longer sticks but cut mine in half and it worked out perfectly and I saved money this way!

Dip stick into candy melt and gently push into cake ball. I placed my cake pops into the freezer for 30 minutes just to make sure the candy hardened.

Get those decorations out

This is the "ONLY" hard part I had, was getting the candy melts a little bit more runny so I could dip in the cake pop into it. So I just rubbed it on with a spatula and sprinkled the decorations on. This was my first time doing this kind of thing so I had to make sure they at least tasted good, and I got a two thumbs up kid approved. I did find later this website FAQ on Cake Pops and now I know what I did wrong which was I overheated the candy coating melts. Oh well live and learn, Right?

I found these pops bags at Walmart for under $4.00 with 12 in each bag



So it's not perfect but then again it was my first time and they are for a bunch of 8 year olds who don't care what they look like, but I'll get there......