Day 9 - Cake pops

Usually when I make cakes I end up having a ton of extra pieces left over. When I worked at the bakery, we would use them to make rum balls or a coffee cake filling. (No Plastico I am not making coffee cake right now) Im not really a fan of rum balls so i looked around in my saved links and found the bakerella site. That gave me the idea to make a Mickey/Minnie mouse head.. So i went to search for ideas and happened to scroll down and she had just posted how to.. lol. it was meant to be. :) you can find the full directions here.
Here is my breakdown of what I did.Ingredients:
1 box any flavour of cake (or left over pieces like i used)
1 can of frosting. any kind.
Chocolate to coat cake in.
Mix the cake so it is crumbly.
Add 3/4 of the icing and mix.

Mix until it is nice and soft.
scoop or roll into balls


put in fridge until firm so that it is easier to dip in chocolate.

While that is chilling, use a round cutter to cut off part of a chocolate melt. These will be the ears.
dip end of lollipop stick into chocolate and insert in cake ball
fill a piping bag with a bit of melted chocolate onto the cut part of the ears. place 2 on each ball.


put back in fridge until you are ready to dip them.
dip in a single motion to totally cover the entire thing. pull up and let the extra chocolate drip off. (you can colour your chocolate black but i decided not to.)

once the extra chocolate is off, put the cake pop into a styrofoam holder to keep them upright.


you can leave them like that or add 2 heart sprinkles to represent a bow. :)

Verdict: These look awesome and are pretty easy to do.. Lilly was very excited. I was thinking that oreo balls would be fantastic for this as well.. yummy. the cake was super moist and it was a nice bitesize treat. Lilly wants to take one to her teacher, so that is where they are going. :) I love when things turn out the way i want. :)