In honor of Josh's high school graduation, I was going to blog about his favorite recipe. But, I promised him we could make it together this summer, so I will save the post for a later date and instead share about my first attempt at cake pops.
I like to think of this as a follow up to my post about Samantha's rainbow cupcakes. See, I made some extra in case I had some casualties. I had a couple, so it was a good thing I did. I somehow ended up with a full extra dozen cupcakes. I wanted to eat them, but I also wanted to do something different with them. So, I decided I would try to make cake pops.
"Try" is the key word, here. I've already looked online and figured out some things I can try to make them come out better next time. I used dipping chocolate and candy coating for these, and I had a much better and easier time with the chocolate. Candy coating, apparently, is harder to use than you would think, which explains why I mostly ended up with (lumpy) cake balls instead of cake pops.
Here's the thing: they look pretty ugly - or, at least not as awesome as all of the other ones on the internet - but holy crap they are delicious!
Josh gave me a box of red velvet cake mix awhile ago, and I think I am going to try to make those into cake pops. I'm hoping that the idea in my head translates well in real life, but I think that if I combine that with what I read online and what I figured out the hard way, I'll be in good shape. To be honest, I'm really excited about trying them again so that I can have something that looks as good as it tastes.
If you're thinking about making cake pops (or cake balls), I found this link to be pretty helpful:
Common Cake Pop Issues & Tutorial. Of course, you'll probably want to check it out before you start making them.
What's the last recipe you made that ended up being harder/more complicated than you expected?
My favorite way of making cake pops is to buy unglazed donut holes :D Not nearly as fussy.
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