Sweets on a stick
Add some pop to your spring treats
RUTH BLACK
BY MONA NEELEY
Classic Cake Pops
S
weeten this year’s egg hunt, Easter dinner or spring fling with delicious, colorful cake pops. These
easy-to-make, grabbable goodies on
a stick add a couple of bites of sweet
and a lot of fun to any gathering.
While every classic cake pops
recipe follows the same basic steps,
there are a huge number of mixtures
and tastes you can create. Some of
our favorite cake pops have been
devil’s food cake with chocolate
frosting, chocolate cake with jalapeno jelly and spice cake with pumpkin butter.
Once you have the basics down,
get creative and make your own cake
pops to share.
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1 box cake mix (your choice)
1 can frosting (your choice)
Lollipop sticks
Candy melts (any color)
15x4x2-inch piece of Styrofoam
Prepare cake mix according
to box directions. Allow cak
e to
cool. Cut away hard edges from
the corner or sides of cake
and
crumble the rest of the cake
into
a large mixing bowl. (An easy
way
to crumble a cake is to cut
out
hand-sized pieces and rub the
m
together until both pieces hav
e
crumbled into the bowl. Rep
eat
until the entire cake is crumbs.)
Combine the cake with just
enough frosting to create a fud
gelike texture. Cover the mix
ture
with plastic wrap and refrige
rate
at least 1 hour.
Remove from fridge and
roll teaspoons of mixture
into
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balls slightly larger than 1-in
ch in
diameter. Place on cookie
sheet
and return to fridge for ano
ther
20 minutes.
Melt candy melts in small, microwave-safe bowl. Note: Mel
ted
candy should be deep enough
to
more than cover the cake balls
cooling in the fridge. Remove cake
balls
from fridge. Take lollipop stic
k and
coat about a half-inch of it
with
melted candy. Then push stick
into
cake ball.
Dip cake ball into melted
candy, making sure candy rea
ches
stick. Note: Do not “swish”
cake
ball in candy; simply dip in
and
out. Let excess candy drop off
cake
pop. Place cake pop on waxed
paper or push stick into large 4-in
ch
high piece of Styrofoam with
cake
pop in the air. Repeat until all
cake
pops have been made. Yields abo
ut
24 medium pops.
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