Cake Pops

I have been doing a lot of special themed cakes in the last two months and always end up with some amount of cake crumbs after I carve the cakes. This time I made these colorful cake pops with the left over cake pieces/crumbs and chocolate ganache, for my little cousins.

These are not the typical, perfect cake pops and I have no specific measurements for this recipe, it was just an experiment, that ended up being successful :) 

So got any cake left after Christmas? Then try these colorful cake pops and let the celebration continue!

INGREDIENTS:

• Cake pieces - Any flavor, any quantity! (Check out these recipes)
• Frosting - Any flavor, about 1-2 tablespoons (I used some leftover buttercream frosting) *
• Chocolate (Dark/Milk/White) - About one cup, grated **
• Lollipop sticks or large toothpicks

METHOD:

1. Get ready for the messy work. but with clean hands!
2. Rub the cake pieces with your hands, to form even crumbs
3. Add the frosting little at a time and mix well so that the mixture binds well. Do not add too much of frosting, as it would make the mixture too moist
4. Make small balls/laddus and place them on a tray lined with butter-paper or aluminium foil
5. Freeze the cake balls for 15-30 minutes, till they become hard
6. In the meanwhile, melt the grated chocolate using a double boiler/microwave method
7. Dip one end of the lollipop stick in the melted chocolate and insert it into the frozen cake ball
8. Dip the ball into melted chocolate, and place on the lined tray with the ball facing down and stick up
9. Repeat it for other balls and refrigerate them for a minimum of 15 minutes
10. Dip a smooth or butter knife into luke warm water and smoothen the balls
11. You can serve*** as such or decorate them with colorful edible sprinkles/gems/powdered pistachio.. and the list goes on!!

NOTES:

* If you do not have buttercream frosting, you could use any frosting of your choice or any sweet creamy spread like nutella

** Instead of melted chocolate, I used some remaining chocolate ganache that I had and melted it in a double boiler (Ganache is thicker than just melted chocolate, hence the texture might not be as smooth, but the taste was exotic!)

*** You can prick the pop sticks on a sponge or a thermocol covered with foil and serve them in style!