Recipe: Cake Pops

INGREDIANTS:

• 1 box cake mix (cook as directed on box for 13 X 9 cake)
• 1 can frosting (16 oz.)
• Wax paper
• Candy melts or Almond Bark
• Sprinkles (if you want)
• Lollipop sticks  (bought at Michaels craft store)
• Styrofoam (bought at Michaels craft store)

DIRECTIONS:

Bake any cake mix as you normally would (I used a confetti cake mix from Aldi.) After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into large bowl.

Mix thoroughly with 1 can frosting. (I used a whole can of Cream Cheese frosting but I think it was too much, so use half and work your way up – you don’t want the cake balls to be too mushy)

Roll mixture into quarter size balls and place on wax paper covered cookie sheet. (Since I used too much frosting, I had to put the whole bowl in the fridge for about 30 minutes so the mixture would get firm enough for me to roll into balls)

Melt chocolate in the microwave per directions on package. (30 sec intervals, stirring in between.)

Dip the tip of your lollipop stick in a little of the melted candy coating and insert into the cake balls. (Insert a little less than halfway.)

Place them in the freezer for a little while to firm up. (Otherwise they will fall apart when you try to dip them!)

Once firm, carefully insert the cake ball into the candy coating by holding the lollipop stick and rotating until covered. Once covered remove and softly tap and rotate until the excess chocolate falls off. Don’t tap too hard or the cake ball will fall off, too. (I found it easiest to hold the cake pop over the bowl and pour the chocolate coating over them and smooth it out that way, rather than dipping.)

Place in a Styrofoam block to dry. (If you are adding sprinkles do it now because they harden quick!)

Once dry, enjoy!

They may not be the prettiest but for my first time I was happy and everybody loved them!

This recipe was adapted from Bakerella’s Cake Pops recipe.