A friend of mine introduced me to a cool website called Bakerella. She specializes in cake pops which are balls of cake on sucker sticks. I thought they'd be good to take to our Christmas party at work. Then I got to thinking that having this stick taking up room on your plate might be kind of annoying. I decided to do cake balls instead. I've never made cake pops or cake balls before and I thought a practice run would be a good idea.
Should have been...
I had some ugly looking cake balls. I quit after making only 12, they were pitifully ugly. Dad said they tasted "great" but I wasn't happy that they were ugly. I must have gotten too much icing in the cake and it was doing weird things to my melted chocolate. The cake balls wouldn't even freeze! This is something that's gonna take practice. Next time I try to make some I'll use a can of store-bought icing so I use the correct amount. I used my own cream cheese icing this time. Oh well...gives me an excuse to make them again!
The office will probably be getting peppermint cupcakes for the party! I KNOW those are good!
Happy baking until my next adventure (or disaster!)
