Making Cake Pops

Making cake pops simple as 1 2 3...

 

Make a regular cake. Do NOT do anything to make it super moist such as adding extra liquids/ apple sauce/ mayo/ or puddings!  (If you do this your pops will fall apart from too much moisture and you run the risk of them tasting mushy.) Once you pull your cake out of the oven and it cools completely cut it up and put it in your mixer by pieces. Start mixing.

Add 1 spoon full of frosting at a time.  (I use my homemade butter cream.) You will use about 2 good size spoons full of frosting to your mixture but you will want to watch to make sure you aren't adding too much.  Mix until the batter pulls to the center of the mixer/ away from the edges of the bowl.  It is important to not add too much frosting because you can make the mixture taste nasty very quickly!!!  Once you have the right consistency use a cookie scoop to make pops that all have the same amount of cake.

 

Roll your batter into a ball or a desired shape.  (You can push the batter into a cookie cutter for any shapes!)

  Carefully heat up your chocolate.  I like to use almond bark because A)it's not too runny B)it dries quickly C) can be added to the candy melts and make about any color under the sun easily.  Once you have your chocolate melted dip a stick into it and then push it into your pop.  Do not push it over half way into the pop or you run the risk of the stick going right through the entire thing during the drying process.

Place the pops in either the freezer or fridge until the pops are chilled. Then you can dip the pops into the chocolate.  GENTLY tap the pop on the side of the bowl getting what you can of the dripping chocolate off.

At this point you can place your pop in a piece of floral foam or anything that will hold it up right while it dries.  You can either sprinkle jimmies or sprinkles at this point or wait until they are dry and put designs on them.   If you are going to sprinkle on them make sure you only dip 2 or 3 at a time and not let them dry... it's helpful to have someone sprinkle them for you while you dip them.  (Very nice time savor!)

And that is how you make a cake pop!! If you have any questions feel free to message me!
Until next time happy baking! -Michelle 
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