Making Cake Pops

So, the cake pops turned out pretty darn good. Or at least Noah and Olivia thought so! :)

Here's the directions for the cake pops! Now, this was my first time, so I'm sure there's more tricks to them, but here's the general idea.

Ingredients:
Cake mix of your choice (I used the Pillsbury confetti kind)
Frosting of your choice (I used white cream cheese frosting)
Candy toppings (sprinkles, candy eyes, jelly beans, etc)
Pre-Colored Candy Melts (you can get at hobby lobby) or Almond Bark (if using Almond bark, use gel or powdered food coloring)
Shortening
Sucker Sticks

Bake your cake according to the package and let it cool. If you get antsy and want to hurry the cooling process up, just put your cake in the fridge or freezer. Once it's cooled, break the cake up into crumbs (really get it crumby!!).

Add about 1/4 of frosting. I found this was all I needed to make the cake moist enough and still give it a sweetness. Mix until cake is pliable enough to kneed, but not stick to your hands.

Mold your mix into any shape you want. I really like the cupcake shape, which I used a flower cookie cutter and balled it up on top to create the "cupcake" shape. For more info on shaping a cupcake...click here. For information on halloween pops, click here.

Mold your cake pops and set them on a wax paper lined cookie sheet. Place in freezer.

Melt your almond bark over a double burner (add shortning if needed) and keep double boiler on for other colored chocolate.

Take the pops out of the freezer, dip the stick in the hot almond bark) and insert into the bottom of the cake (go about half way in). Refreeze.

Once frozen, dip cake pop into desired hot almond bark chocolate and place right side up in starifoam or grab an empty pop holder during halloween at walmart. Use M&Ms, jelly beans, candy eyes, sprinkles, etc to decorate with. Just remember to apply them while the almond bark is still wet! Bakerella has some wonderful ideas, so click here to see more!

I used halloween bags and ribbon to finish it all off. It went over great at daycare!

"Yummy, yummy mommy!!!"