To make the lollipop sticks stay in the cake pop; dunk it into the chocolate coating
An easy holder to make for the cake pops!
Ingredients: Chocolate Cake:
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- a tiny bit less than a cup of flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 sticks (8 oz) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 stick (4 oz) unsalted butter at room temp
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 lb semi sweet chocolate chips or confectionery chocolate coating
- 25 to 30 lollipop sticks
- sprinkles of your choice!
Directions:
Chocolate Cake:
Preheat oven to 325º. Grease a circle pan or a glass pan. In a large bowl mix together the baking powder, salt, flour, sugar, and cocoa powder. Slowly stir in the melted butter, eggs, and vanilla extract. Pour into the greased pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out almost clean.
Preheat oven to 325º. Grease a circle pan or a glass pan. In a large bowl mix together the baking powder, salt, flour, sugar, and cocoa powder. Slowly stir in the melted butter, eggs, and vanilla extract. Pour into the greased pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out almost clean.
Chocolate Butter cream Frosting:
While the cake is baking start making the butter cream. In another bowl, with an electric mixer, mix together the butter, cocoa, powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract. Mix until nice and fluffy.
Assembly:
When the cake is finished, let cool for about 20 minutes. In another bowl start crumbling the cake into very small pieces. Make sure there are no big clumps left over before adding the butter cream. Add one spoonful of butter cream at a time. Mix the butter cream into the chocolate cake crumbles, until the consistency is like a dough. Make sure you don't add too much butter cream, or else the balls won't hold their shape, and if the dough is too dry the balls wont shape at all.
When the cake is finished, let cool for about 20 minutes. In another bowl start crumbling the cake into very small pieces. Make sure there are no big clumps left over before adding the butter cream. Add one spoonful of butter cream at a time. Mix the butter cream into the chocolate cake crumbles, until the consistency is like a dough. Make sure you don't add too much butter cream, or else the balls won't hold their shape, and if the dough is too dry the balls wont shape at all.
If the dough is too moist, let it sit in the fridge for 20 minutes before making into balls. Shape the chocolate dough into about 25 balls.
Chocolate Coating:
Melt the chocolate coating in a double broiler.
Attaching the Lollipop Sticks:
Dip the lollipop stick into the coating, just enough to act as glue when put into the cake ball. Immediately after dipping the stick in coating, stick it into the cake ball. Once all the lollipop sticks are in the cake balls, place the cake pops in the fridge for about 10 minutes to harden them.
Melt the chocolate coating in a double broiler.
Attaching the Lollipop Sticks:
Dip the lollipop stick into the coating, just enough to act as glue when put into the cake ball. Immediately after dipping the stick in coating, stick it into the cake ball. Once all the lollipop sticks are in the cake balls, place the cake pops in the fridge for about 10 minutes to harden them.
Chocolate Coating the Cake Pops:
Re-melt the coating if needed. Dunk the cake pop into the chocolate coating, making sure all the excess coating comes off. If you have enough chocolate coating, dunk the cake pop into the coating twice for a thicker chocolate outside layer! When the last layer of coating goes on the cake pop, apply the sprinkles and press them into the coating a bit so that the sprinkles stick.
Store the cake pops in a card board box with holes hand made holes like i did in the picture above, or in a styrofoam block. Store the cake pops up to 3 days in the fridge while not being eaten. This recipe make about 25 Chocolate, Chocolate Cake Pops!
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