Cake Balls/Pops!

Am I behind on posting or what!  It has been a crazy week.  This is a project I did last week and thought you guys would enjoy this, it's a great one to do with kids too.


Here is everything you will need...
~Cake mix and whatever ingredients it calls for
~Frosting
~Chocolate (I used chocolate chips because it's what I had at home but I would strongly suggest using baking chocolate since it makes for better presentation)  Get creative with this, use pink, purple or whatever color you want.  Michaels and most other craft stores will sell pre-colored baking chocolate. 
~Sprinkles or whatever you want to use to decorate
~Wax paper
~Bowls for mixing
~Spoon
~Baking sheet

Start by baking the cake and letting it cool, then cut around the edges so that you do not have any hardened pieces in your mix.  Cut the remainder of the cake into small squares, this makes it easier to work with.

Place your cake squares into a bowl and use your hands to break them up into a fine mix (obviously make sure your hands are clean for this).  Then take about 5 tablespoons of your frosting and add it to the cake. 

Use your hands again to knead the frosting into the cake mix, much like when making meatballs.  The mixture should work up into a mix that you can work with and mold into balls.  If you need to add more frosting go right ahead.

Lay out your baking sheet and put wax paper over it.  take small mounts of your cake mix and make it into little bite size balls and place them on your baking sheet.  I then place my sheet with the cake balls on it in my freezer for about 30 minutes, they are much easier to cover with chocolate like this since they will be harder.

Once your cake balls are almost ready to pull out of the freezer you can begin melting your chocolate.  You can use either the double pot method or a microwave but you have to be very careful with a microwave.  If using one, heat in 30 second intervals and stir often to get the right consistency.  If you over heat, the chocolate will actually harden up again.  If you are using baking chocolate just follow the directions on the package.  Take your balls one at a time and dip them in your chocolate, a serving spoon will be a big help here.  Once it is covered place it back on your wax paper covered baking sheet and decorate with sprinkles if you like.

Wait for the chocolate to harden, eat and enjoy!  Mine obviously aren't as pretty as they could be because I used chocolate chips but they were still yummy!

You can also make these into Cake Pops simply by inserting lollipop/sucker sticks into the balls before freezing them.  This also makes it easier when dipping them into chocolate.  You can also use a block of foam to put the ends of the sticks into and stand them up so that they dry better without a flat end on them from resting on the wax paper to harden.  Both the sticks and foam can be purchased at your local craft store.