Cake Pops

Craving sweets, but have a New Years resolution? Cake pops are a great solution. It's basically a bite of cake on a stick. Did I mention moist cake covered in hardshell candy coating? Now I have your attention. I made these cake pops for our Hanukkah party this year, but they can be easily changed depending on the occasion. I will say they are tricky at first, so take your time!

What you will need: 

• Boxed cake mix, of your choice, I used french vanilla 
• Eggs 
• Vegetable Oil 
• 1 tub of vanilla icing 
• Wilton candy melts, color of your choice 
• Lollipop sticks 
• A block of styrofoam 
• Sprinkles of your choice 

Directions: 

• Bake cake as directed using specified amount of eggs, oil and water. 
• Once cake comes out use a knife to cut the cake into 4 even pieces, let it cool completely. 

• After the cake is finished cooling, take a large bowl and one chunk of the four pieces. Begin crumbling the cake into the bowl. Crumble very fine. Continue will all four pieces. 

• Once the cake is all crumbled, take 3/4 of the icing and use a spoon to mix it into the crumbled cake. Use the back side of the spoon to mix so that the mixture becomes smooth. 
• Use your hands to roll 1 1/2 inch cake balls. Place the rolled balls on a lined baking sheet and place them in the freezer for 10 mintues. You do not want the balls to freeze! 

• While the balls are in the freezer, set out your sprinkles into bowls and begin melting the candy melts into a bowl or cup. 
• When the 10 minutes is over, take the balls out and dip each lollipop stick into the melted chocolate and stick into the balls. This allows the stick to stay put inside the balls before you dip. This is very important! Or the balls will just fall into the icing.

• After all of the sticks are dipped and cooled take each cake pop and dip it into the icing, let the excess drip off, and then stick it into the styrofoam. 

• After it is stuck in the styrofoam, use sprinkles to decorate. You can either roll the cake pop in the sprinkles or just keep them in the styrofoam while you sprinkle. 

• Complete dipping and sprinkling the cake pops until all are placed in the styrofoam to cool. 
• Once all the cake pops are cool, place them in tupperware and store in the fridge. When you are ready to serve them take them out thirty minutes before and display in a fun way!