Cake Pops

Ahhh!  Cake Pops.  They seem to be the popular item right now taking over the cupcake reign of fire.  I tasted one a while back and it was delicious.  My dear friend and relative Terry got a hold of the recipe and sent it to me...I will give you the recipe and also share my tips and lessons that I learned from my first cake pop experiment!


http://veronicascornucopia.com/2010/01/20/cake-pops-2/
This is the tutorial I used...

Before beginning to make these I have a couple of tips!!

1.  Have a large styrophone ready to stick your pops in to
2.  Have plenty of fridge space
3.  Return your pops to the fridge as often as possible
4.  Do not make your pops too big (this will cause them to fall off your stick or slide down the stick...and so will not keeping them cold)
5.  Have a double boiler and (NO unsweetened cocoa is not tasty!! nor is it the same as good ghiradelli)
6.  I made my own royal icing and love the taste of using icing!
7.  USE the food processor...the less lumps the better
8.  Make a good box cake or good cake by scratch!

This batch was made with home-made royal icing and all of these tips above were not followed and hence they are not my best batch and will not be my last!!  The icing turned out awesome and now I have the correct icing for my sugar cookies....Good Lesson learned.  But these are very sweet!  I will follow the 8 tips above in the future!

and then I had some icing left and this is what I did!  I think I will stick these on cupcakes!!

I have to include a few new pics of my youngest Chef!