{"id":364,"date":"2011-02-08T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2011-02-08T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T21:12:00","slug":"cake-pops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Cake Pops!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I officially have a new love…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

CAKE POPS!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I got this cookbook last week,in hopes of making some for my mom’s birthday (Feb. 5th). Angie Dudley is a self-proclaimed “non-baker,” and–thinking of all of my kitchen disaster incidents–her book intrigued me. The ideas were so cute and basic enough to try it myself, so I did.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Here’s how they turned out….<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Cupcake Pops, purple and pink dipped in mint chocolate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Mom’s nickname at work, “The Payroll Queen,” made its royal debut in dessert form. Aren’t they cute?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u00a0They are such a blast to make! It’s pretty simple…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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1) Bake a cake (from a mix is fine, just follow the directions), any flavor, in a 8X12 (or so) baking pan.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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2) After cake is cooled, cut into 8 squares. Over a large mixing bowl, pick up 2 squares and rub them together. You are “crumbling” the entire cake into the smallest pieces possible.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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3) Once the crumbling is complete for the entire cake, add 12 oz. of frosting to the cake. Mix it in using the back of a metal or wooden spoon. (The book is right…do NOT use the entire 16 oz can of frosting…the mixture will be TOO moist!) Mix together until it all becomes a moist bowl of cake happiness. Taste this, but don’t eat it all!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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4) Now put the cake in the fridge for 2 hours or freezer for 20 minutes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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5) Roll chilled cake into balls, about 1–1 1\/2 inches in size. If they are not sticking together, put the cake back into the fridge to cool some more. Place the balls onto a cookie sheet lines with wax paper.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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6) You can make the oh-so-tasty cake balls at this step, heating candy melts (like Wilton) in a deep microwavable bowl. Stir in between 30 second increments. A 1\/2 pound batch (1\/2 bag) should take about 3 minutes in the microwave to completely melt.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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7) Using 2 small spoons, dip\/immerse the cake ball into the melted candy (I used dark chocolate mint) and juggle the ball between the spoons to drip off the excess candy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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8) Cool on wax paper for a few minutes. Eat! There are a million ways to decorate them, and it gets a bit complicated from there. However, this is TOTALLY worth 2 hours of your life!! I loved it, and I think my mom enjoyed the package she received for her b-day.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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I have so many ideas for using these cake balls for Cake Pops!…but some of you might be receiving those as gifts, so I shan’t post it here.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Happy Baking!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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~Laurel~<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I officially have a new love… CAKE POPS! I got this cookbook last week,in hopes of making some for my mom’s birthday (Feb. 5th). Angie Dudley is a self-proclaimed “non-baker,” and–thinking of all of my kitchen disaster incidents–her book … Continue reading →<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,41,261,260,42,27,259,215],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthday","tag-cake","tag-cakeballs","tag-cakepops","tag-chocolate","tag-easy","tag-fun","tag-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}