My first experience with cake pops!

I've been catching on to the new genius idea this is cake pops or cake balls.  I've always loved cupcakes but these little things are almost just as cute.  My mom is amazing so she went out and bought this cake pop maker

So we made two types of cake pops our first time.  One was in the cake pop maker and the other is the 'by hand' way. 

Ok so for the ‘by hand’ batch we made caramel apple pops.  We cooked a caramel cake and used apple juice for half the water.  Once the cake was cooked and cooled we broke the cake up in a big bowl and added vanilla icing mixed with caramel and apple juice.  We found that we didn’t need the entire can of icing, our cake balls turned out to be a little too moist.  Next time we’ll add icing until it reaches the desired consistency.  Once we formed all of the cake and icing into the size of golf balls stuck them in the freezer to get them good and cold.  We melted white chocolate in a makeshift double boiler (we’re going to need a real one if we start making a lot of these.)  We coated the cake balls, set them in small muffin wrappers and placed them in the refrigerator to cool.  Of course feel free to decorate.  I think next time we’ll craft something so they don’t touch anything while they cool they were a little messy from sitting in the wrappers.  

For the cake pop maker we made chocolate covered cherry cake pops.  So I took a devil’s food chocolate cake mix added maraschino cherry juice to the batter in place of water.  Then all you do is fill the holes in the maker ¾ full of batter, put a half of a maraschino cherry on top and close the maker, they sit for 4-6 minutes and they’re ready to go.  We popped them out of the maker, let them cool and then coated them in melted milk or white chocolate.  The cherry in the center was really good! 

They took a long time to make.  Next time I’m making them in the cake pop maker and using an actual double boiler.  I think the process would go a lot faster.  I’ll be making the chocolate covered cherry pops for my birthday next week.  Pictures and exact recipe to come!