Cake Pop Recipie !

We are having a little bit of fun at work and we are doing a bake off, I can cook ( only a few dishes but I can ! ) However, baking, unless it's rice crispie treats I don't have the foggiest !!

So I thought about what would impress people yet is so simple to do ? ..... CAKE POPS !! I have never tried too bake them before must they look semi easy?

So I thought I would share my experience and give you the recipe ! :)

WARNING - NOT AS EASY AS IT LOOKS AT ALL !!!

Ingredients

Chocolate Cake - Make your own to really claim those bragging rights. If you are making the cake just make the base of the cake, don't add any frosting to the inside or on top. Or you can simply go ahead and just buy a chocolate cake, make it easier on yourself. - If your feeling adventurous choose any flavor cake !
Chocolate - I used milk chocolate because I really don't like dark chocolate ! You could use whatever flavor you want, white chocolate looks really impressive, though it may be a bit sickly ? ( maybe )
Cake Pop Sticks - I couldn't find these so I used like ice cream sticks instead, works the same but doesn't look as fancy ! Also I realized if you can find them, cake pop sticks would be a LOT easier !
Sprinkles - or something similar to decorate
Polystyrene - To hold the cake pops up right
Chocolate Frosting - Again you can change the flavor depending on what cake you choose / made.




Instructions

1. Get the cake that you either made / bought. If you bought / made a cake where there is frosting then cut the top off the cake off where the frosting is, leaving as much of the sponge as possible, do not throw the top of the cake away, you will need this in a minute, just leave it on the side for now.

2. With the sponge crumble it up into a large bowl, until the cake crumbs are so small that is resembles breadcrumbs.

3. Add a SMALL amount of frosting, either from a tub or from the top of the cake you cut off earlier. Only like 1 tablespoon worth into the bowl, mix this together, use your hands to do this so you can feel the texture, it's important it still resembled bread crumbs, if it is all too mushy and squishy and impossible to shape into a ball you have added too much, so do this carefully !

4. Shape the cake into balls, People say you can use a ice cream scoop, I just estimated with my hands,The size is up to you, But I would do them bigger like a dumpling ball size !

5. Melt a small amount of chocolate, When the chocolate is melted dip your cake pop sticks in the chocolate so the top is covered in chocolate, then insert it into the middle of each of your cake pops. You should do this gently and may need to hold the sides of the cake pop to make sure your cake pop doesn't come apart, gently shape it back together if it starts to come apart.

6. Stick this in the freezer for 20-30 mins. My freezer drawer wasn't deep enough to do this ! Very annoying ! So if you have the same problem as me, just take some tin foil ( so you don't get anything gross on there ) and line the bottom of your freezer with the foil and place the cake pops upside down.

Stupid Freezer !

7. After 20-30 mins take the cake pops out, you should see that the cake pop sticks are firmly in place and aren't going to come loose, Now melt some chocolate, You need to melt enough chocolate that you can dip the cake pop into it and it would be completely submerged in chocolate, You may find a mug / glass /cup easier to melt the chocolate in for this rather than a bowl.

8. Get your sprinkles / decorations ready because after you have dunked the cake pop into the chocolate it sets fast !

9. Okay you are going to want to do this next step and step 10 one cake pop at a time, don't think you can dunk them all in the chocolate and THEN decorate them all, It will be far too late and your chocolate would have set, literally takes like 20 - 30 seconds to set, it's amazingly fast ! Now, dunk that cake pop haha ! Completely submerge it in chocolate, pull it out, twirl it around to get rid of any access chocolate that will drip off, This for me was probably the hardest part, chocolate ran all down the cake stick and by the end of it I was covered in chocolate ! I don't know how to solve that ? I guess just keep twirling for a few extra seconds.

Swept up mess from all the sprinkles haha !

10. Pour on your sprinkles / decorations, Warning these are likely to go everywhere and you'll find them in your house for months afterwards haha, but you can always do a thorough job of sweeping up afterwards, once decorated stick it into the polystyrene holder and repeat for as many cake pops as you have.

11. You can either place them back in the freezer if your in a rush, otherwise just leave them on the side, thats what I did. Let the chocolate harden and set, I would leave it a good few hours just too make sure that they are really ready.

Hope they taste good ! :)
If you have any about the chocolate not running down the sticks then let me know !
Post pictures of yours ! Hope you enjoyed it and hope that it was easy to follow :)

Tah Dah ! Final Product