It's the Great Eye Ball, Niko Man

Happy Halloween!!

I love Charlie Brown and my sister calls my little man Niko Man, hence the title. 

I decided that I wanted to make cake pops for Niko's class, OMG! So I made them. I've made cake pops before but I never really cared what they looked like a whole lot because they were mostly covered in sprinkles.  This time I decided to make creepy eyeballs.  So . . . TA DAAAAAH.  I was able to make about 13 "ok" ones but though not perfect I am still happy with how they turned out as I am not a professional baker at all.  I've decided to show you pictures of behind the scene.  No one shows you the behind the scene pics, lol.

I hope the kids like them, they were yummy.  I ate one of the ruined ones, whoops.  Whenever I make the cake pops I kind of just wing it, so I bake a box cake, cool it, crumble it and add 1/4 of a jar of frosting, mix it, squish it and mold it.  Dip the lollipop sticks into the melted candy melts and attach to cake pops and let cool, this acts a glue to hold it together.  Dip and decorate.  I have a candy melt pot that I bought at Michaels, even though they are never perfect I make them enough to where I think I need one.  This was my first time using it.  I think I still need to perfect the actual cake ball, the weight and size is important so that they are not too heavy for the stick otherwise they'll fall off . . . see science, math and physics are all important kids! Stay in school!  

Hope everyone has a safe Halloween!

Go 'stros!

xoxoxo

Final product

These broke off and fell inside candy melts

Ruined

My first attempt the night before using a different brand of candy melts um no . . . these DID NOT make the final count.

Clean up

A MESS!

MMMMMMMM . . . cake pops

My sister taught me how to make the most delicious cake pops! She made them for my baby shower and over the weekend we made them for my friend's bridal shower.

They are super easy to make and super delicious.

Ingredients
1. Cake mix
2. Eggs
3. Vegetable oil
4. Water
5. Frosting
6. Candy Melts
7. Sprinkles

Materials
1. Popsicle sticks
2. Cookie sheet
3. Cellophane paper or pop favor bags
4. Pretty ribbon

Instructions
1. Bake a cake, whichever flavor you want.
2. Let the cake completely cool.
3. Break it up into pieces once cooled.
4. Add frosting to broken up pieces of cake, add enough to mold the cake into little balls, if there is not enough frosting the balls won't hold their shape.
5. Roll above mixture into balls.
6. Pierce a Popsicle stick through the cake ball.
7. Place them on cookie sheet and let them cool in the refrigerator (we left ours overnight).
8. Melt the candy using a double boiler system (see pics).  This will prevent the chocolate from burning.
9. Dip the cake balls in the melted candy.
10. Add sprinkles.
11. Let cool standing up.  We placed them on styrofoam.
12. Wrap in cellophane paper or place them in cake pop favor bags and add a pretty ribbon.

voila!

 

Enjoy!