We made Cake Pops!!  Yes.  We did.  And we sur­vived to tell the tale.  I will post the pump­kin cake pops that we were also work­ing on later this week.  It was def­i­nitely a good time to make these.

Really it was pretty easy to make them, even with kids.  Espe­cially with kids.  Even if they weren’t as pretty as Bakerella’s, they were pretty good.  And maybe my rus­tic take will be the new pretty.  Hey a girl can dream!

What You Need:

One Cake: Yel­low, Choco­late, Some other wild & crazy flavor

Cream Cheese Frosting:

8 oz. Cream Cheese

2 Cups Pow­dered Sugar

4 Table­spoons Unsalted Butter

1 Table­spoon Whole (or 2%) Milk

1 Tea­spoon Vanilla (optional)

Candy Melts For Cov­er­ing Your Cake Pops  (I used Wilton’s)

Sprin­kles for Fall We did Fall Leaves

How To Put It Together:

Make your cake. Let it cool down.  Way down.  You want this to be a fully cooled cake.  After it’s cooled crum­ble it.  Then on a low-medium speed cream together your cream cheese frost­ing.  After the frost­ing is blended together add it to your cake.   I used a spat­ula & my hands to blend and incor­po­rate all the ingre­di­ents.   I have to admit I like get­ting my hands dirty in cakey goodness.

I didn’t run into any of the prob­lems that oth­ers have writ­ten about or warned me of (e.g. crum­bling cake).  But I kept my cake dough in the freezer after blend­ing it. If you don’t put it in the freezer, keep it refrig­er­ated.  If they get too warm work­ing with the dough won’t be pos­si­ble.  Then I took it out & made cake balls.  Insert­ing small lol­lipop sticks that I got from the local craft store.  I put them in a pan, plac­ing them on top of wax paper.

After that I put the undressed cake pops back into the freezer until it was time for them to get their party clothes on.

When I was ready to dec­o­rate them I melted Candy Melts.  Candy Melts are at most local craft stores.  I found them easy to work with & since I was buy­ing the sticks any­way I picked these up at the same time.  You can melt by either the dou­ble boiler method or in microwave safe dish (then fol­low the instruc­tions on the bag).

Then I dipped the cake pops into the melted candy.  A spoon was used for pour­ing  over some areas if needed.  I did it fast.  I only did a few pops at a time. The rest stayed in the freezer.  Faster is better.

Oh, cov­ered cakey good­ness.  I do think these are a shar­ing treat.  Because man it would be easy to eat them all.  By your­self. All at one time.

We also made them with dark choco­late.  The sprin­kles were added after we had dipped them, while they were still warm.  After we had dec­o­rated them they went back on the wax paper.  Yes. I know. There are bet­ter tech­niques for keep­ing the balls nice & rounded but these were made with FOUR KIDS under SEVEN try­ing to help & a hus­band who thought that he should eat any mis­takes.  Need­less to say I think they (he & the kids who agreed eat­ing mis­takes was good) were try­ing for mistakes.

Over­all I am really happy with how they turned out for the first time try­ing these.  I can’t wait to make all dif­fer­ent kinds.  I have my eyes on pump­kin cheese­cake, apple spice & dark choco­late ideas.  In fact, if Mike had his way we’d have Cake Pops in the house every day.  The kids agree with him.  Tons.

Spe­cial thanks to the fol­low­ing posts for the amaz­ing Cake Pops, along with tips & prac­tices from those who’ve made them before:

• Bak­erella The Cake Pop Master
• Pio­neer Woman & Hal­loween Cake Pops
• Writ Rams Tips For Pump­kin Cake Pops
• The Kitchn Tips & Tech­niques for Mak­ing Cake Pops

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