This year has flown by. I can’t believe we are about two weeks away from Christmas already! Which means I have a weekend of celebrations upon me, it’s my birthday!
I have been intrigued by cake pops for a while now. I have no idea how a little ball of cake could keep my interest, but I have been looking for an excuse to try these out. I wanted to focus on making the actual cake pop so I used the best from-the-box cake mix there is: Funfetti of course!
Ingredients:
Cake Mix
Eggs
Water
Vegetable oil
12 oz frosting
Assorted candy coatings
Wax paper
Lollipop sticks
Styrofoam, or a pop stand
Assorted sprinkles
Bake the cake according to box directions. Allow to cool. While its cooling, prepare to make the cake pops. Set out two cookie sheets lined with wax paper. Gather the lollipop sticks and place near the cookie sheets. Set out a large mixing bowl.
Finely crumble the cake in a large mixing bowl.
Add the frosting to the crumbled cake and mix to combine (This gets realllly messy, which is why I don’t have a photo). Roll the cake into balls and place on the wax paper. I got I think 28 cake balls from one box of candy, but I think I made them a bit big. Oops.
Pop in the refrigerator overnight, or for a few hours. To decorate, melt the candy coating according to directions in the microwave. (This was surprisingly more difficult than I expected. I managed to burn one of the batches!) Be sure to use somewhat deep bowls. You want enough melted candies so that you can completely submerge each cake pop in it.
When the candies are smooth, take out a few cake pops. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the candy coating.
This will work as a glue to keep the cake pop in place. Stick the lollipop stick into a cake ball Repeat with remaining cake balls. Allow to set (I left mine overnight, but if you return it to the fridge for maybe 30 minutes I think that would be just fine).
Take a cake pop and submerge in the melted candy coating. Do not swirl the cake pop, or they might fall off!
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Be sure to coat the entire cake ball. Remove from the candy coating by pulling straight up.
To remove excess candy coating, hold the cake pop over the bowl and tap the wrist holding the cake pop gently until some of the coating falls off. Place the completed cake pop into a cake pop stand or into some Styrofoam to set.
You now have a cake pop! If you want, you can add sprinkles or other decorations.
Soo… mine turned out so lumpy; and drippy. They are more like cake lumps, not cake balls. Who cares? They were delicious!
Here’s some of my “birthday-themed” cake pops:
and here’s some of my Christmas-y cake pops.
These cake pops take quite a bit of time, but I was pretty giddy with the results!
I made these over three days because I was making them during the week, so you can most certainly make these ahead of time. Just place the dried and finished cake pops in an air tight container or back in the fridge.
I hope all my friends like them!
