A New Obsession

Do you read Bakerella? Well, I do. I was totally inspired by these cupcake pops and decided we needed to try them out ourselves.

(image from Bakerella's blog)

I like to try recipes the way they are written the first time, so I know what I would change if did them again. The recipe she has for cake balls calls for red velvet cake and a can of cream cheese frosting, so that's what we did. I would use chocolate the next time, but the red velvet does look really cool. I haven't tried shaping them like cupcakes yet, but I will. Soon.

I stirred my crumbled cake and frosting together in the mixer on low with the whisk and found it worked really well - much easier than stirring by hand.

Here are some of my rolled cake balls. I discovered these were much easier to do after I put the mix in the refrigerator for awhile. I didn't have nearly as much that stuck to my hands.

The final product! Doesn't that look good enough to eat? Dipping is tricky... I can tell it will take a little practice to make them look right. Still. Yum.

Oh yeah - yum!

I accidentally made one that ended up looking a lot like a Tootsie Pop - so then I did a few on purpose. Imagine thinking you were eating a cherry Tootsie Pop only to have it be a cake pop.... at least it's still red!

One problem I discovered... you don't want to dip them when they are still cold. Almost all of them that I did straight from the fridge had little eruptions. Cute, but not really the look I want.

Rachael loves them. I think she would eat them for every snack. Maybe every meal.
Oh yeah - and you don't lick this kind of pop. You bite.

How do I know they are good? Even Ryan likes them - and this batch was made with cream cheese frosting. I think we're on to something here.