Made Cake Pops
At SereniTea House, they make these delicious sweet treats called cake pops. A cake pop is a mini cake truffle in a candy coating, served on a stick (like a lollipop). They are a perfect bite of sweet deliciousness. J knows how to make these really well, so I was really lucky to have someone there that could guide me.
I started by baking a cake. I used a box mix because it’s easy. Plus, I’ve never made a cake from scratch (look for this one in the future). Vanilla cake mix, water, eggs, oil all go in the mixer. We added almond extract for flavoring because I was making these for a Chinese New Year’s dinner.
I poured it into an aluminum pan and baked it at 350 degrees for a little under 30 minutes.
I put the cake in the freezer to quick cool it. In the meantime, I made frosting. Making frosting was much easier than I expected. I creamed room temperature butter by mixing it in the stand mixer. I added confectioner’s sugar in three different batches and continued to mix.
After not too long, I’ve got frosting.
After the cake cooled a bit, I put pieces of it into a food processor and it broke it up into crumbs. I mixed it with the frosting I just made, adding a little more almond extract to taste.
Using a tablespoon, I scooped a bit of the cake dough mixture and rolled it into little balls. After I rolled a few out, I put them in the freezer to cool and firm up.
For these cake pops, I was making cupcake-shaped ones. This means I needed two colors of candy melts, one for the wrapper section and one for the top. I melted some red candy melts in the microwave for the wrappers.
We put the melted candy into a squeeze bottle, and I piped it into a cup mold. The cooled dough balls are placed in here and pressed down forming the wrapper. We threw this into the freezer for a few minutes.
Now, it was time to remove these from the mold. I pushed from the bottom and peeled them out of there.
I was almost done. I took lollipop sticks and dipped them into melted yellow candy melts. I poked the bottom of the wrapper, and then I dipped it top down into the yellow.
I added sprinkles and let them set up and harden.
After the candy had hardened, I wrapped them into small plastic bags and knotted them up with a twist tie.
After all of them had been wrapped, they looked like this.
This was a fun activity. I know if they ever need help at the tea house, I can definitely make these again. Also, I’m sure I’d do a much better and faster job next time.
Cool stuff:
Cake Pops book
Pop Bakery
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