Cake Pops

For our friend Saramay's birthday I created cake pops. These have been featured on many blogs before and I've always been itching to make them. Samara picked me up some candy melts in Fairbanks so I could finally make them. I thought they were pretty easy to do and looked impressive. They're sort of time consuming and tedious, but fun as well.

First, you bake a cake and let it cool. I just used a cake mix, so that gives you a rough estimate about how big of a cake to make. Then, once the cake is cooled, you break up the cake in a big bowl and put about a jar of frosting in it. You mash this up until it becomes a sort of sticky mess. I then used my cookie scoop to scoop out balls of the cake mixture. I put these in the freezer for about 15 minutes while I melted the candy melts.

I put the sticks into the candy melts and then poked them into the semi-frozen cake balls. Here is a picture:

I put this back into the freezer until the candy melt hardened up. I then sort of drizzled the candy melt over the cake ball. I tried to dip it, but that ended in sadness. (The cake ball fell off. It was tasty, though.) I then sprinkled some fancy sprinkles on it that my mom gave me. (These tasted like mocha. How fancy!)

Here are all the cake balls lined up in the styrofoam. I poked holes in the styrofoam to allow the cake pops to dry. This worked pretty well.

Overall, I think this was a success. I like how they're fairly simple to make and the possibilities are endless.