The latest craze (besides cupcakes - obviously) is cake balls/ pops! What's your favorite? Chocolate? Vanilla?
"Red velvet, please!" Evan and Matt.
Can do.
Here's what I used - nothing fancy. There are fancy ways of making them, that's why this is Beginner Cake Pops! Boxed red velvet cake, store bought cream cheese frosting, and chocolate almond bark. Let's do this!
I'm not usually the type of girl that eats raw dough, except this stuff was ridiculous good! Sorry Betty Crocker... you did too good of a job :)
To get started - you want to follow the instructions on the back of the box (minus the don't eat the cake batter thing... ) and bake a cake. Simple.
Pull it out of the oven and let it cool, but for just a little bit. Dump the cake into a mixing bowl and add the cream cheese frosting. Mix it all together and definitely taste it now - mmmmm!
Then roll them into balls (however big or small you want), put them on wax papered cookie sheets (that sounds weird - but do it), and stick them in the fridge to cool. Another option is to put the sticks in them and freeze them, that would be Beginner Cake Pops.
Word to the wise: put the wax paper on the cookie sheets before rolling the cake into balls or else this will happen:
Now for the fun part! Melt the almond bark on the stove - I doubled up on pans because I was nervous about ruining the chocolate. It took a little longer to melt, but it was worth not having a catastrophe!
Then, keeping it simple, use a toothpick or a fork to dip the chilled cake balls in the chocolate and them put them back on the cookie sheet. The almond bark sets up really fast so you don't have to chill them, necessarily. However, they are extra delicious when they are cold - personal preference - so I put them back in the fridge until it was time for dessert.
There you have it folks! If you've ever been nervous to try and make cake balls or pops, don't even worry. Keep it simple and happy eating!
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