Mission: Cake Pops

Move over mini cupcakes and single serve ice cream cups. There is a new cat in town.

Cake pops are all the new rage in case you have been living under a rock :)

Starbucks, baking blogs, baby showers... these babies are taking ovvvvvvvva.
So me and my sister had to try to make them. We can bake a cake and decorate cookies, how hard could a combo of the two be? If we followed the directions we would be fine.

We baked a cake.

Let is cool.

Crumbled it up.

Added a jar of frosting to it.

Stirred it all around.

Made the dough into balls and stuck them on some sticks.




I was feeling pretty confident at this point. The mixture felt kinda weird, but I figured that was what happened when you mixed cake with frosting.

Ok. Maybe I should tell the truth. All the recipes we read said that the cake has to be completely cool before you crumble it up.

Ours was mostly cool.

What would it matter anyways? You have to freeze the balls of dough before you can dip them in chocolate anyways.

Then we dipped them in pretty pretty pink, and sprinkled on some decorations.

I think the first one turned out kind of okay.

Before we knew it, the cakepops had turned into a disaster.

They were falling off the sticks. The sprinkles weren't sticking. The chocolate was clumping.

The pink looked like skin color, and our cake balls... (kind of looked like male anatomy if we are honest with ya)

Okay. Well. Looks aren't everything. We were sure they would be delicious and everyone would be ditching Starbucks and Bakerella's cookbook to line up in our kitchen.

So we waited for them to cool. And tried them...

I so wish I could say some witty pun about how looks are deceiving and it's what's on the inside that counts...

Sigh. I can't. They were HORRIBLE. Like wet cake. Even my mom who eats cupcakes for breakfast and loves all things cake couldn't stomach one.

I think it's very important when they say make SURE the cake is completely cooled before crumbling.

So. I take it all back. More power to ya Starbucks and baking blogs. Keep up the cake pops cuz they sure as heck aren't gonna make me rich and famous anytime soon. Didn't you guys think Cake Balls by Lindsay had a nice ring to it? Oh welllll. ;)