Another step forward in the cake pop making

As you can see, I got my dipping technique down pat. I used lollipop sticks and used baking chocolate bars instead of chips.

Now, my problem is how do I get the chocolate to not pool at the bottom?

This recipe was: carrot cake mixed with walnut coconut frosting covered in white chocolate.

As I love everything in these pops, I thought they tasted delicious!

Second attempt at cake pops

Banana nut cake with cream cheese frosting

covered in peanut butter chocolate

And I am ready to buy a dipper, something like this. Because my microwave melting is not really helping with the dipping. I made some more cake balls/pops (I want to call them balls since I haven't put the lollipop sticks in them) yesterday. This flavors this time were banana nut cake with cream cheese frosting covered in a chocolate and peanut butter mix. They are delicious and I don't even like banana bread. But, the dipping once again sucked. It actually came out looking worse than before. I used chocolate chips this time which was what was used in many recipes I saw online. As you can see in the photo, it's not a smooth covering. (Sorry about the sucky iPhone photo, am at work or I'd use my Nikon for a better photo). I think I'll stick with bark or baking chocolate bars in the future and use a small fondue pot to do the dipping.

I am trying another flavor this weekend: carrot cake with walnut coconut frosting covered in white chocolate. Wish me luck.

Cake Pops

Ingredients

I have been fascinated by cake pops, ever since I had the Tiramisu ones at Starbucks. I saw some simple recipes online and decided to try my hand at it last weekend. I used Butter yellow cake, baked as the box suggested, mixed with a whole box of strawberry frosting.

Rolled into balls and refrigerated for a few hours.

Rolled and cooled

 Then, I microwaved the chocolate bark and rolled the cake balls in it. I need to get better at this, as you can see.

Dipped in melted chocolate

They might not have looked good but they tasted yummy. Pardon the terrible photos!

 I'm already thinking of the next flavor combination: carrot cake mixed with a walnut coconut frosting, covered with white chocolate.