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[poppleminster]

I would also do that but my oven temperature guage isn't working and as the oven is a smeg, it can only be mended by a smeggy engineer and parts from germany etc etc so I just bought the pop maker. nom nom cow pops xxx

[MrsNaylorToBe]

I've absolutely fallen in love with cake pops!! And surprisingly I have agreement from the other half! Thanks Poppleminster, I would never have found these otherwise x

[MrsBrown]

Seriously I have No idea what cake pops are????

[Helen]

Mrs Brown - Cake pops - yummy balls of cake and buttercream/cream cheese (depending on cake flavour) mixed together and dipped in candy/chocolate coating. These can be lots of different shapes, basic shape is a ball. Can be served on a stick (lolly style) on just as a ball you can pick up and pop in your mouth. Bite sized bundles of fun!

[MrsBrown]

They sound horrible, disgusting, not nice, yucky..... Not convincing myself.... I want cake pops!!! blooming diet.

Where do you buy them... For future ref when I am at target of course!

[MrsC2Be]

They made them on SFTW and they were layered (sort of trifle stylee) into little push up holders. They looked really cute!

[poppleminster]

nom nom nom I am making some now If I can get my camera working then will upload pics later

[poppleminster]

My first pretty bad atempt at cake pops. I couldn't get the caramel topping to stay on the cakes without dripping off everywhere so gave up and make half coated cake balls instead

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[poppleminster]

Mine are not cake mixed with icing as I find that type too sweet, the ones I made are sponge cake balls

[Helen]

I normally mix mine with cream cheese as I also find they are a bit sweet with icing or buttercream, however this does depend on the cake mix as some cakes are much sweeter than others.

Popple maybe your coating was too hot? Or your cake balls were too warm? I find chilling the cake balls in the fridge for half an hour and then dipping the balls at least twice (letting them dry between coats) works for me They are a bit of a pain in the butt as you have to keep twirling them around to get the coating to dry evenly.

I'm doing a load of these for a school fete next month so will add pictures after that

[poppleminster]

Hmmm I did them warm so guess that was the issue. They all went within an hour so they must have tasted ok though! Thanks for the tip, might make some more in a minute with the chilled bit in between cooking the balls and coating them. I have a cake pop maker as my oven costs so much to fix that it was cheaper top buy the machine. It also means they are just sponge on the centre. Although I used a double choc muffic recipe for the last batch.