Things started off well...the cake baked up beautiful..then I crumbled it all up into this bowl as directed...
I then mixed in the can of cream cheese frosting and rolled them into balls...this was not only EXTREMELY messy, but also a bit tedious. On the bright side, this part was at least successful.
I let them chill overnight since I didn't have the sticks and wasn't going to the store for them until today.So onto the chocolate part...I melted the chocolate bark as instructed...no problems there. Yay!
I dipped one of the cake balls into the chocolate, let the excess drip off and then had no place to put it to dry so I ate it. They are SWEET...a bit too sweet actually.
Anyway, then I ran to the neighbors house for a piece of styrofoam (she has EVERYTHING in her garage).
The directions said to dip the sticks in the chocolate & then insert into the balls & let them sit a while before dipping the balls in chocolate. This did not turn out well for me. Here is a picture of them after having dipped the sticks in chocolate & then inserted into the cake balls.
The first one I dipped in chocolate WITHOUT dipping the stick (the one I ate) fared better than the ones where the sticks had been dipped. My conclusion: there was less "give" from the hardened chocolate around the sticks and so the cake pops started falling apart. Awesome!After managing to dip a few and use a spoon to pour the chocolate over them & then placing them in the styrofoam, I decided they looked like complete crap and there was NO way I was taking these ridiculous things into the office tomorrow.
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Try not to laugh too hard.I guess it's a good thing I didn't go to Pastry School after all, probably would have flunked out...at least based on this experiment.
8 comments:
I am so glad I haven't tried making these! lol I can't only imagine how mine would have turned out. Kudos for trying. Do you think you'll try again sometime?
Em...I don't think I'll bother trying again...unless someone can tell me where I went wrong because I have no idea. I could not get them PERFECTLY round like the bakerella gal does, so I think it's hopeless...oh well. :)
well they might not look "pretty" but they sure look tasty! Send some my way... I'm always looking for ways to undo all my workouts :-)
I've never made cake balls, so I'm no expert, but I wonder if you couldn't just set them on a sheet of waxed paper to harden, instead of sticking them in the styrofoam? And then serve them stick-side up. Perhaps not as elegant, but that's how I've always done it for buckeyes (using toothpicks instead of sticks).
I want one! They contain good stuff!
Hahahaha! I've just seen these for the first time a few weeks ago, and couldn't decide if I liked the idea enough to make them (cake and canned frosting, not too of my favorite things). Hahahaha, crap on a stick!
Next time, skip the stick. The sites I saw made them sans-stick and called them cake ball truffles.
Thats a heck of a lot better than I could have done!!! I bet they are still delicious!!!
If I was your co-worker I'd be mad at you for not sharing ;) Hello anything chocolate and sweet is great! I actually applied to the Art Inst of San Diego a few years ago or the culinary program... I can't cook worth a crap :) I was going through a pre-quarter-life crisis I think ;-) (aka a guy I liked moved out there haha)
thank goodness I didn't follow through! I wouldve definitely failed
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