I recently saw a cake pop cookbook that I want really badly but I'm gonna hold off on buying it until I am finished with my cupcake challenge because I know if I buy it i might be tempted to abandon cupcakes... Maybe that will be my next project: Operation Cake Pops!
Anyways, I decided to give cake pops a try, though i thought I'd stick to the basic cake pops for my first try and save the cute/crazy designs for later. Red Velvet is my absolute favorite cake so that's what I ended up making. First, I baked a red velvet cake. As beautiful as it looked coming out of the oven, it was time to destroy it. That's right, to make cake pops you have to crumble up the cake into a bowl.
The next step is where it gets messy. You mix the crumbles together with the frosting (I used cream cheese frosting to go with the red velvet cake) and form smallish balls. Doing this not only makes the cake very moist but also helps it taste just like you're eating a real piece of cake! Place all the balls on a cookie sheet and let them cool in the fridge for a couple hours. You can speed up this process by putting them in the freezer if necessary.
Once cooled, melt your chocolate in a bowl and dip the tip of a popsicle stick in the melted chocolate. Insert the stick into a cake ball.
Once the stick is securely in the ball, dip the entire ball into the chocolate. If you are trying to keep the shape perfectly round or you are making a fun design you would then wedge the stick into a piece of styrofoam and let chocolate harden. But since i wasn't trying to do anything crazy i set the chocolate dipped pops back onto the cookie sheet and placed them back in the fridge to harden. As a result the base of the pop was a little flat but otherwise it was tasty!
The cake pops were yummy and everyone that had one liked them. I'm definitely going to be making these again and perhaps next time i will make the cupcake shaped ones!
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