Tag: cake pops

Cake Balls

Cake Balls

Cake, Cupcakes, Cake Balls, Cookie Cakes, Cake Pops – we are pretty obsessed with cake. My question is – what is wrong with that!? You have the sweet softness, you have the super-sweet frosting, you have about a million different flavor combinations. I say: Let 

Minnie Mouse (& Mickey Mouse) Oreo Pops

Minnie Mouse (& Mickey Mouse) Oreo Pops

It is best to start a meal with dessert (or if you want to be like Rich – you start and end a meal with dessert). So I will start my Disney Birthday Week Celebration with Dessert!   For my Birthday, we were able to 

Cake Balls

Cake Balls

When life gives you ugly cake… you make cake balls!

Last year Rich gave me a really cute zoo animal cake pan for my birthday, which I had still yet to use and decided that I should make cute little mini-cakes (also by using my Mickey Mouse pans I have never used) for my birthday this year. Open box of cake mix, follow directions, grease pans well, bake… welcome dissapointment! I am not artistic so knew that I would not be able to decorate these in order to bring them to their full potential!

Luckily I had some extra batter and made some cute mini-cupcakes (in which I took a box of Pillsbury Cream Cheese Frosting flavored with caramel ice cream topping, chocolate syrup, and cocoa powder in order to change it up and make a more tasty frosting which I highly recommend).

The rest of the cake (the cute cakes that should have looked like Mickey or Zoo animals) I was too frustrated with to try to save. But I realized that I had never made cake balls or cake pops before and they always look so cute & I was not about to let some silly cake ruin my birthday!! Here’s where I crumbled my cake into little crumbs, mixed in about a 1/2 a container of Cream Cream Frosting, and made balls out of them. At that point, they went in the fridge for the next evening when I melted down some chocolate (with a bit of shortening to prevent if from getting too hard), rolled the balls around & also stuck some sticks in the rest of them to make cake pops as well as cake balls.

For a first attempt – these were pretty good, but I have lots of room to improve these (easy to make though: vanilla cake mix, cream cheese frosting, melting chocolates). SO… stay tuned for attempt #1 down the road when I make these again 🙂