Lovely Cake Pops

 Okay. So this was my first attempt at the Cake Pops (finally!) I'm a bit of a perfectionist so I'm not tremendously pleased with the way they turned out. But oh well. Practice is practice. I'll walk you through the steps.

We used a box of white cake mix and added some pink, white and black sprinkles to create our own Fun-fetti Cake in Hello Kitty colors.

We let it cool before breaking it up into crumbs and adding some Duncan Hines® Creamy Home-Style Cream Cheese Frosting.

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  Then we mixed the icing in with our hands and put it in the fridge to set. After about half an hour, we rolled out fifteen little ovals for Hello Kitty's head

Then we melted down the Vanilla Candyquik®, dipped the tip of the lollipop stick in the melted candy and stuck the stick into the bottom of the Hello Kitty head.

Then we stood them up in a Styrofoam block. >

Next, we added Nestle® Chocolate Chips for the ears, dipped the bottoms in the melted candy and placed them as evenly as possible onto the tiny cake heads.

 Then we waited for them to cool and set and for the candy to harden so the ears didn't fall off. And then we dipped them, one at a time, into the melted candy. Had to be quick as the candy hardens fast (You may have to re-heat it a few times. We did. But don't over-heat it. It will burn and will NOT go back to its silky smooth texture) Try to get a bowl deep enough that you have room to get the whole cake head in one dip. I did not have a bowl deep enough. So we ended up losing 3 kitties due to them deciding to fall apart in the bowl.

We waited until the candy hardened on the cake heads and then used a toothpick to spread around a little bit of melted candy (used as glue here) onto the back of our little yellow noses and pressed it to the middle of the face. It should set quickly, ours did.

We went ahead and put our whiskers and our eyes on. Bakerella suggests using a edible black pen, but I couldn't find one so I had to use a Gel Tube. It worked okay, could have been a lot better though. Then we got our sprinkle hearts, the bigger ones work best, but we could only find the small ones (I'm well aware that this sounds wrong), and our little red dots and put them on the cake head. Putting a small dollop of melted candy below the right ear and then adding the small little sugar pieces worked best for me.

This is our finished product. ^ They don't look as good as I'd like them to, but they're okay. And they taste delicious. It was good practice and I hope that Anna likes her late birthday present. I do not take credit for the idea for this or the recipe. I did alter it a bit from Bakerella but I didn't create it. And I want to thank her for coming up with such a cute idea. (: I made a x.x face on Hello Kitty because of the joking around me and my sister did about the last one to be stabbed with the lollipop stick. This one was my favorite.

You can view the whole baking album for this experiment here.

-you know I'm sugarlaced-