Cake Pops

How my cake pops did NOT turn out

For my birthday I decided to throw a “Taylortini” party to celebrate my birthday, I would serve various appetizers and feature a cocktail called the “Taylortini”.  For a light dessert, I thought Id’ try my hand at cake pops, which have taken the nation by storm recently. Everyone makes it look so easy and perfect. Let me tell you how it really is: not easy at all!  Not only does the cake stick to your hands so that it takes an hour to even form the cake balls. Once they are formed and put into the freezer to harden, the real fun begins.

My pledge sister Kate willingly helped me with this dessert experiment, and it’s not likely to be forgotten soon. I decided to use dark chocolate, and white chocolate as my coatings with coconut, cashews and purple sanding sugar as the decorations. The people on tv make dipping these and coating them look so simple, but trust me, not losing the ball in the coating took a skill that only Kate seemed to possess. Sadly, my cake pops kept getting stuck in the white chocolate. I tried different methods but I finally gave up and had to drizzle it onto the cake pops themselves, which inevitably made them look like a five year old had the task of decorating. The dark chocolate did not end up much better, I concluded that the heat of the chocolate combined with the coldness of the balls was the cause of the demise. In the end the cake pops tasted yummy but looked too amateur for display on my blog. Overall, I say leave the cake pops to the pros, they know how to do it, and they have the patience not to give up.