Oh how cute the picture was, but a total fail in the making of our attempted dog pops.
A couple lessons learned in the process of attempting cake pops:
- Sizing – I wish someone had pointed this out before, but you need really precise sizing for the pops to stay on the stick!
- Moistness – I think I added too much frosting (getting over zealous with the left over third of frosting I added it all), it falls of the stick if it is too moist.
- Freeze the balls – it works wonders.
- Dipping – I am an amateur in working with chocolate and dipping is not my talent, but we did have to thin the candy out quite a bit so have some crystallines on hand to do this if you need to.
- Frosting – we had issues using the warm chocolate to get items to adhere to the cake pops, so instead we used dabs of frosting, which worked great!
- Styrofoam – find some good Styrofoam (heavy enough to balance) to support the pops once they are done and ready to dry.
The process seems fairly straight forward –
- Make a cake (you can use a boxed cake set if it is easier)
- Frosting (you use about ¾ cup)
- Roll the balls *Freeze the balls (an extra step we found helped tremendously)
- Heat chocolate/candy coating
- Adhere ball to stick
- Dip and cool
There appearance was a little touched, but they were a hit and very delicious.
