Cake Poops

I have had a bit of an obsession with baking and cooking lately. A problem when a) you're still trying to lose "baby" fat, b) you're not that great of a cook to begin with (I tend to do things a bit haphazardously and take shortcuts in the kitchen (cutting boards are for girly men! Who needs one when you have perfectly good hands?!?)) and c) you're on a po' man Law School budget and make "creative" substitutions when the ingredients called for are out of the ordinary or expensive.

All that aside, I've really wanted to make cake pops for quite a while now and decided to give it a shot with Lisa last week. I was in town for Elena's wedding and we wanted a fun project to do together.

These pictures were our inspiration, what we hoped our cake pops would look like:

Bakerella.com was the first to make the divine cake pops. Beautiful, no? The picture makes my mouth water.

TheHungryHousewife.blogspot.com is another food blog I stalk. How cute are hers?

Now prepare yourselves. Here are the cake poops, I mean pops Lisa and I made:


Scroll up to the beauties, scroll down to ours. I hope you didn't reel back in disgust when you saw ours again.

My personal favorite. They honestly looked like bloody meatballs covered in chocolate. Lisa and I decided they were perfect for Halloween!

If we didn't scare you forever from making them, here's the basic recipe:
1 box cake mix (we used red velvet, I wouldn't suggest it unless you really like cake that looks like bloody meat)
1 can cream cheese frosting
melting chocolate
Lollypop sticks

Bake the cake according to box directions. Once its cooled, crumble into a bowl and mix with the cream cheese frosting. Roll into bite sized balls. Dip one end of the lollypop stick into melted chocolate and stick it into the bloody meatballs. Refrigerate or freeze. Once the Pops are good and hardish, dip into melted chocolate and decorate.

Hopefully yours look better than ours.