Pop Shop

There is a crazy that has hit the nation, and with the convincing of a close friend...We have officially jumped on the CAKE POP train.  Yep, its true, yesterday, a new favorite of mine was born...the love for making cake pops.  Now, I definitely DO NOT call myself a baker.  I love to "play" in the kitchen, but nothing spectacular.  Chelsea had a brilliant idea to make these fantastic green velvet cake pops we found on one of her favorite blogs.  I know, the first question we were asked, "whats the difference between green velvet and red velvet?"  My quick response was..."absolutely NOTHING.....except the color of course." 

So, we pulled together all the ingredients, not knowing quite what we were getting ourselves into, and jumped in.

Now, most of the recipes you find for cake pops require you to use boxed cake (which I am usually not in favor of).  But of course, we chose the from-scratch, homemade, confusing, recipe.  Not the best possible option for our pops, but oh well. Now, this recipe called for a WHOLE bottle of green food coloring, which we didnt have, so our half-a-bottle got us in very questionable, interesting shade of green cake batter.

Now after the cakes were baked, we had to let them cool, and after we were supposed to stick them in the food processor and chop them to bits.  Sadly, we were unable to find the food processor, so we tried the bender. 



This did not work so well, so we were forced to do it the old fashioned way...by hand!!  Oh, and please excuse the disgusting looking color....Note to self for next time, DONT DO GREEN VELVET!!!

From here on out, it was smooth sailing. 

Mix cake crumbs with can of frosting, roll dough into balls, place stick into each ball, dip into melted chocolate, and sprinkle. The end product turned out quite nicely if I do say so myself.

Aside from our "speed bumps" during this project, PLEASE try it.  Maybe start with a boxed cake mix, but all the keep in mind all the hard work DEFINITELY pays off.  They tasted fantastic.  This fun afternoon may just turn into a business endeavor by the two of us...POP SHOP...Hey, it could happen!!