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Cake Pops

A bouquet of cake pops decorated with sprinkles, standing up in a short glass.
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Got a dry cake? A couple leftover cupcakes? Some scraps and trimmings, maybe? Don’t throw them away. Upcycle them. Yes. Upcycle your food. Do it.

Ingredients

  • Dry cake, leftover cake/cupcakes, cake debris from leveling/trimming
  • Moistening agent of choice (buttercream, other frosting, jam, milk, coffee, booze, etc. etc.)
  • Chocolate or candy coating (the kind you melt)
  • Sticks
  • Sprinkles (optional)

Instructions

  1. Crumble ya cake into a big bowl.
  2. Add moistening agent(s) of your choice, a little at a time, and squish with ya hands until you get a moldable dough that holds its shape.
  3. Using a spoon, a purple portion scoop, or ya fingies, form dough into balls (just shy of ping pong ball size is ideal)
  4. Chill the balls for a few minutes until firm.
  5. Melt just a little of your chocolate or candy wafers. Don’t use those shits from Michaels, they’re chalky and too thick for good dipping. Dip a stick about 1/2″ into the melted chocolate or candy stuff and poke it into a cake ball. Repeat until you run out of balls or sticks.
  6. Chill again. We want our balls cold.
  7. Melt enough coating to dip your balls in it.
  8. Work quickly here. Dip your chilled balls into the coating stuff. Shake and tap gently to get the excess to drip off. There is a very narrow window between “still dribbling” and “set” so if you’re using sprinkles, get them shits on before your stuff sets.
  9. You can set your dipped pops on a plate to set but this leaves them with an ugly flat top. I have a fake styrofoam cake with holes poked in it that I use as a drying holder for my cake pops.
  10. Package your pops with lil baggies and twist ties and maybe stickers and ribbons and shit if you want.
  11. Serve. Make everyone think this was hard or something.

Notes

No fr though you will get so many compliments on cake pops and nobody has to know they were made out of fucked up dry cake and storebought canned frosting and whatnot.

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