...and this is the first and last time that I will make Cake Pops. Holy mother of devil's food, it was madness. First you bake a two layer cake (I chose devil's food). Then you destroy the cake in a giant mixing bowl and mix in (with your hands, not a spoon or else you have devil's food-parts flying all about) 1.5 cups of double fudge chocolate frosting. Once it becomes the consistancy of playdough, you scoop out relatively small spheres and set them on a baking sheet. Then you dip one end of a sucker stick in melted chocolate and spear the cake balls with the chocolatey end to adhere them. Place the baking sheet in the freezer for at least 45 minutes to make sure that the stick and cake ball are well adhered and then bring em out fot the grand finale. Melt any type of chocolate you like ( i did milk chocolate...my very favorite, and mint-flavored white chocolate). Dip the cake balls into the chocolate and use a spoon to help cover the uncovered parts so that you don't risk losing the cake from your stick (it gets really heavy and difficult to manage). Then leave them on wax paper to dry and then transfer them to a platter and you're ready to wow your audience.
But whatever you do, don't forget to leave time to clean up your kitchen, post cake-balling. Mine was a MESS! I had devil's food all over, frosting everywhere, tons of dishes with hardened chocolate and sprinkles covering my whole world. I'm telling you, this was fun once, and the people at the dinner party like them...but man alive, that was some serious work.
P.S. I made 20 originally and only 13 made it out of the final chocolate dipping alive and well. Total challenge!
