Cake Pops

     

     

     Cake pops seem to be quite popular, judging from the proliferation of Pinterest pins and Facebook posts with tutorials. Just because of the ingredient composition, I was skeptical of the whole idea. Bake a cake, crumble it and then smush it with frosting to make a ball? Why not just mix basic ingredients, similar to a non-baked cookie, and dip it in chocolate? Anyway, when grandson expressed an interest in cake pops, I volunteered to make some for his birthday. The multiple steps - baking a cake, cooling it, crumbling it, adding frosting (till a play dough consistency is reached) and rolling into a ball, cooling the balls, inserting sticks, melting chocolate in a double boiler, dipping the balls and then decorating with sprinkles - were tedious but not difficult. The results were pretty and held up well in their Styrofoam base on the one-hour  trip to Vinnie's home.

     Everybody enjoyed the pops, even the dog who got to eat the sprinkles that fell on the floor. (Vinnie fabricated a foil catch for his sprinkles!) But I stick by my original thoughts and feel my skepticism was warranted - I would rather eat a good moist cake with a silky buttercream frosting than a mushed combination of the same!