Easter Cake Pops!

Happy Easter everyone!

Every week I try to send my husband into work with some type of baked good, this week was no exception. I’ve made cake pops before, but they’re usually pretty simple, I figured that I had mastered the art of normal cake pops, and thought I’d give these Easter themed treats a try.

 

What do you think? The recipe for regular cake pops follows, and the instructions for these Easter cuties are at the end of the post. J

Ingredients:

Whatever brand/ flavor you would like + ingredients for the mix

Can of frosting

Cardboard lollipop sticks

Styrofoam block

Lots and lots of patience

Step 1:

Bake and cool cake according to directions on box

Crumble cake in a bowl and mix in ¾ of a can of frosting. The consistency should be close to play dough.

Step two:

Form into bite sized balls, mini ice cream scoops work really well for portion size. Put into freezer to solidify (about 30 minutes)

One box of cake makes around 48 balls.

Step three:

Melt a few candy melts in a microwave safe bowl (make sure the bowl is deep enough to dip a ball into without it hitting the bottom 15 seconds at a time stirring a few times till they’re melted. Or whatever your instructions say. Dip the very tip of a lollipop stick into the melted chocolate and insert into one of your cake balls, don’t poke all the way through, it makes it difficult to cover them in chocolate when the time comes. If the chocolate becomes too stiff to work with, remelt in the microwave.

Put all the balls back in the fridge to solidify for a few minutes.

Step 4:

If you haven’t melted your whole bag of candy, now would be a good time. Mix in 1 – 2 tsp. vegetable oil into your chocolate, it helps to make the coating smoother.

Working with one or two lollipops at a time dip the ball into the chocolate and tap on the edge of the bowl till most of the excess comes off. Stand upright into the styrofoam block to set. You should add your sprinkles now.

I  melted my chocolate in a double boiler because I don't own a microwave. D:

Keep going until all of your cake pops are covered. When the chocolate is set, you can put them into small treat bags and tie with a ribbon for individual treats, or just serve them stuck into a covered styrofoam block.

 

Easter cake pop instructions

Ingredients:

Whatever brand/ flavor you would like + ingredients for the mix

Can of frosting

Sprinkles hearts and flowers

White and yellow candy melts

Black food writer pen

Cardboard lollipop sticks

Styrofoam block

Follow the instruction for basic cake pops, but shape your cake balls into chick/egg shapes.

Cover them in Candy melts just as you would for basic pops, except don’t add your sprinkles. Once the pops are set “glue” sprinkles in place using small amounts of melting chocolate. It works best in a squeeze bottle, many roads lead to roam however, I managed not to mess up too badly just putting them in place while the chocolate was still wet.

Warning: I put my pops in the fridge to solidify faster, don't do that...some of mine cracked. :(

There you go!! Happy Easter! - Alise

Be sure to check out Lyne’s blog for other great party ideas.