Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Cake Pops

Ok, these things are all the rage right now. 



Easy recipe..

Take a cake mix


Bake the cake and cool...Check

Crumble the cake into a bowl -check , Austin did a great job



Mixin a container of icing - Check

So far so good.

Make mixure into balls and place on wax paper - Again Austin was a good helper.

Now for the Epic fail moment -

Apparently I can't melt chocolate.

Two seperate attempts - candy coating discs in dish in micro

15 secs at a time, stir.  But could notget it to melt, then next thing I know it was ruined.

I gave up. Mounded more icing on top and everyone ate them but they looked disasterous.

Reason I try these things first and then just go to the store and buy premade cakes.  :(

Didn't even take a picture it was so bad.


Would be a great thing if they turned out like the picture...


But my attempt gets a great big



It couldprobably work for others but they are off my make at home list and on the buy from other source list.



3 comments:

Undeserving Grace said...

hey, you are not the only one that cannot melt chocolate. but I love to make cake pops and so I called my grandma for good ole wisdom and it works for me...I have never had luck with using the microwave.period. however....I use a double broiler and it's easier to control. I've never had it burn in the double broiler and it gets ghetto because I want smaller amounts of the chocolate to melt I just use two pots slightly different in size! My double broiler is huge and so I don't use it. but here's my grandma's secret...to put some paraffin wax in with your chocolate to melt and stir it together. it just takes a little bit but you see the magic start to work. I buy the brand "Gulf Wax" it's on the baking aisle at our grocery store with the sugar and cake mixes and it totally edible and works perfect!
I ruined 3 batches of cake pops before using the wax..I thought I must be only one on the planet that cannot melt chocolate.
anyways...now following ya from today's blog hop.
come by and say hello :)
{tara} from Undeserving Grace

gingerhse said...

Ouch!
Good try. A for effort.

Fast Food Free Mama said...

These are on my list to try and make this weekend with the kids. We love cakepops! I hope I can get the chocolate to melt...I've never tried! New follower from blog hop!!!