Cake Pops
I jumped on the Bakerella bandwagon. Not that I wasn't on it already.
And I was happily surprised! These were so easy to make!
And I got a lot of cake balls out of it, too. So many, in fact, that I had to use three different (half-used) packages of candy melts! But the first ones that I gave to my friends were Tiffany blue, and one friend was so excited that they were this shade! That's her favorite color ever I'm pretty sure, so that was cute.
Something that I did find annoying was the fact that the candy melts that I used did not melt down to the ultra liquid state that Bakerella's always are. Mine wasn't really runny, so I would dip the cake pop in it and then spread the coating around the pop with a spatula then tap the excess off.
On an unrelated note, it makes me so happy when people like what I make! Everyone that I gave these to said how good they were. But really, isn't everything that comes from Bakerella amazing? Let's be real now.
I was sort of worried that the cake would be too oily/soft since it was a soft cake to begin with, then I put in frosting, then I had to put Crisco in the candy melts to make it workable again since I overheated it. But people said that they were good, and I believe them.
A few of my friends (AndrewCat included) had attempted to make cake pops previously, and they said that my version worked out a lot better than theirs. So that's a compliment, I guess.
Recipe (from Bakerella):
1 cake
1 canister icing (I used vanilla)
Candy melts/chocolate chips (I used Wilton brand)
Lollypop sticks (I think I got them at Michael's a while back)
Make your cake. I used a yellow cake box mix since they're delicious and lovely.
Crumble it finely in a bowl. Mix with enough icing so that it sticks together in a dough-like fashion. (I used about half a can plus the extra cream cheese icing from here. That was only a little bit though.)
Roll dough into balls of about a tablespoon. Freeze for 20 or so minutes to make them harder in consistency and easier in effort to dip.
Dip a little bit of the sticks in melted candy melts and put stick into cake ball. Dip cake pop into icing and (hopefully yours is a runny consistency) tap off excess. Stick in a styrofoam block to harden.
(I put mine back in the freezer for about 20 more minutes to make them harden quicker.)
I got about 50, give or take 10, with my cake mix. Of course, it all depends on how large or small you make them.
And I was happily surprised! These were so easy to make!
And I got a lot of cake balls out of it, too. So many, in fact, that I had to use three different (half-used) packages of candy melts! But the first ones that I gave to my friends were Tiffany blue, and one friend was so excited that they were this shade! That's her favorite color ever I'm pretty sure, so that was cute.
Something that I did find annoying was the fact that the candy melts that I used did not melt down to the ultra liquid state that Bakerella's always are. Mine wasn't really runny, so I would dip the cake pop in it and then spread the coating around the pop with a spatula then tap the excess off.
On an unrelated note, it makes me so happy when people like what I make! Everyone that I gave these to said how good they were. But really, isn't everything that comes from Bakerella amazing? Let's be real now.
I was sort of worried that the cake would be too oily/soft since it was a soft cake to begin with, then I put in frosting, then I had to put Crisco in the candy melts to make it workable again since I overheated it. But people said that they were good, and I believe them.
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| They look like truffula trees! |
1 cake
1 canister icing (I used vanilla)
Candy melts/chocolate chips (I used Wilton brand)
Lollypop sticks (I think I got them at Michael's a while back)
Make your cake. I used a yellow cake box mix since they're delicious and lovely.
Crumble it finely in a bowl. Mix with enough icing so that it sticks together in a dough-like fashion. (I used about half a can plus the extra cream cheese icing from here. That was only a little bit though.)
Roll dough into balls of about a tablespoon. Freeze for 20 or so minutes to make them harder in consistency and easier in effort to dip.
Dip a little bit of the sticks in melted candy melts and put stick into cake ball. Dip cake pop into icing and (hopefully yours is a runny consistency) tap off excess. Stick in a styrofoam block to harden.
(I put mine back in the freezer for about 20 more minutes to make them harden quicker.)
I got about 50, give or take 10, with my cake mix. Of course, it all depends on how large or small you make them.
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