[kkstarratings] Cake pops were supposed to be the topic of this post and still will be. However, not the way I originally intended for them to be.
Saturday during the girls’ dance class, Kevin showed me a very cute cake pops recipe that would yield us 24 Candy Corn Cake Pops. If you want the recipe click here.
These Are What Our Cake Pops Should Have Looked Like…
I looked at it with him and thought it would be such a wonderful treat to make the girls, especially if we were to be getting Hurricane Sandy and possibly wipe out all ideas of getting to Trick or Treat this year. We both concurred that at least the kids would have something if the worst was indeed to happen.
So, we walked over to the local AC Moore with Lily, which is right across the shopping parking lot from the girls dance. Emma was in her class at this point, so we had about a half hour to kill.
As soon as we walked into the store, Lily’s first words were, “I have that Barbie at home.” She saw a large Barbie coloring book in the entrance of the store and was completely distracted!
Next stop, we finally headed to the baking department and ended up finding a cake pops pan, cake sticks, colored icings and even a cute tray to display them. Almost $30 later and we were good to go.
Once Emma’s dance class was over, we went to Stop and Shop to brave the hurricane shoppers to do our weekly food shopping, too. While there, we got a Pillsbury Funfetti Cake Mix to use for the cake pops.
Here was the Cake I used…
This was Saturday and we didn’t get to do anything for the cake pops until Sunday afternoon.
Here Are the First Twelve before Trying to Remove Them From the Pan…
I made the cake first as directed on the box. First mistake, I forgot to spray the pan and my first twelve cake pops were not wanting to come out of the pan very easily. I could salvage only four of them. So for all you math people, only 1/3 of that first batch survived. I cooked the next twelve and made sure to spray the pan this time. Thankfully, these twelve cooled and came out of the pan fairly easily.
Here They Are Before the Actual Frosting Nightmare Began and No More Pictures Sadly were Had Beyond This Point…
Now, came time for the icing. I microwaved the yellow icing, because that was to go on first. We got one yellow cake pop that looked perfect. The next ones were not so successful, due to the fact that the icing started to harden quicker than we could dip the cake pops and also the cake began to disintegrate as we were trying to cover them.
Kevin thought maybe we should try melting candy wafers instead. And I thought if we do white chocolate, we could make ghosts instead of the candy corn. Hey it is still Halloween themed.
So back to AC Moore to get vanilla candy wafers. Once we had the candy wafers, we melted the chocolate and tried to coat the rest of the cake pops, but apparently the cake (Funfetti) is too soft for cake pops and all but five survived this round.
Now, we were down to five lone cake pops and what to do? So Kevin YouTubed cake pops now and found you can add icing to cake, make into balls and freeze them to have the coating adhere and stay better.
Of course, he tried this. So how many cake pops survived this round? Zero, they are in my garbage waiting for the trash man to pick them up. But oh wait the garbage man doesn’t come now until at least Thursday, because of Hurricane Sandy suspending garbage pickup until the end of the week.
Forty bucks down the drain (yes I said $30 earlier, bur remember I bought candy wafers too!) and a hurricane on the way. Yup a nightmare indeed and I really hope this is not an omen of what is to come.
(A Side Note: This was written about events that happened on this past Saturday, Oct. 27th before Hurricane Sandy hit Long Island, New York. We are all fine and safe and have power back as of 7pm EST on Wednesday Oct. 31st. However the next few posts were pre-scheduled for the exact purpose if we did lose power for an undisclosed amount of time. Thank you for all of your thoughts and well wishes!! Looking forward now to getting back to a bit of normalcy.)
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Amy says
Oh! I'm sorry it didn't work out! We bought a little cake pop maker a couple of weeks back because my girls have been dying to try them. It's a fun project, but there is no way we could create those little candy corn ones without professional help (and I'm pretty good with baking). Our pops didn't come out perfect at all, but the girls decided to put these candies on them that looked like eyes and icing for hair – they looked like little aliens. So they were happy. My problem -how do you keep them from getting stale? Not easy to wrap at all. Granted, my kids tried their hardest to eat them all in one sitting… 🙂
Bill says
Live and learn my friend! I have no idea how many failed experiments I had when I was raising my son; I know the rats at the city dump ate quite well for a number of years. 🙂
Michelle Liew says
Janine, cake pops are delicious. We always have trails and errors with children…no one's a perfect parent! Thanks for sharing! Glad that you've got the power back too
JanineHuldie says
Thank you as always Eddy and just very happy to share. I hope this recipe comes out better for you and your family. I am going to try again, when I feel more adventurous. Have a wonderful day too 🙂 🙂
JanineHuldie says
Thanks Amy and wish I got to the point of worrying about keeping them stale, because ours ended up in the garbage, because they were just awful I am going to try again once I have more time and can do them right, but agree they will not look like those perfect ones above, because I am truly not an artist, lol 🙂
JanineHuldie says
Thanks Kelly and so happy to know I wasn't the only one who had a mess on their hands. Truly felt like such a spaz, lol 🙂 🙂
JanineHuldie says
Thanks Bill and looks like our rats where well fed too for nights on all the cake and chocolate I threw away, lol!! So much for saving money 🙂
JanineHuldie says
Thanks Michelle and so glad we got our power back too 🙂 🙂
JanineHuldie says
Steph, thank you so much too and thanks for making me feel a bit better about my cake pop disaster, because they truly were horrible, lol!!
JanineHuldie says
Thank you so much Sara and just did that by going to your blog and commenting, too 🙂
Cari Lorine says
Oh no, Janine! It was such a cute idea. I've tried cake pops so many times for parties, and I've yet to have a success. At least you and Kevin made memories! 🙂 I'm so glad you guys are safe after Super Storm Sandy, too! Great post!
JanineHuldie says
Cari, thank you for posting and letting me know I am not the only one who has had trouble making cake pops, because I do so much baking and never had this much trouble. I really was thinking could it just be me?? Thanks though for letting me know it isn't 🙂 🙂
Stacy Harris says
This was too funny. If you look through some of my pictures in my mobile upload album on facebook, you will see the cake pops that I make. However, the pan looked differently. On the directions it said to place a box of pudding in the cake mix and add and extra egg. This worked really good however I still set them in the freezer before coating with candy coating. And I only melted a small amount at a time. I did it in small batches. But I will also admit, I didn't take on a task nearly as difficult as you did. Mine were just balls coverd in chocolate!
JanineHuldie says
Stacy, if I try these again I am going to ask you for tips and pointers, because sounds like you were at least successful and would love to at least make a batch that didn't turn out ending up in the garbage. Thank you though for commenting and giving me some food for thought on making these 🙂 🙂
Cyndi says
Well, at least you tried. 🙂 This would be fun to submit to that CraftFail site. I so feel your pain. I get into bad moods when Mother Nature shows her fury – but I guess that's because she was in a bad mood, too. Um…I know your girls will appreciate all this, even if they don't remember the results. I'm just so glad you're safe.
JanineHuldie says
Thank you so much Cyndi and so true about your mood when Mother Nature is not happy. I feel like a million bucks now that she is not ticked off and the weather is good and we have power. But seriously thank you so much for thinking of us and all your good thoughts sent our way 🙂 🙂
Ruchira says
Just like the rest said…Atleast you tried, Janine. I would love to give this a shot. let's see after this november mega madness month 🙂
Glad to know that you guys survived the frankenstorm…YEAH! welcome back!
JanineHuldie says
Oh thanks Ruchira and so happy to be back, too 🙂
JanineHuldie says
Richard, seriously I am just so happy to be back and maybe it really was a blessing in disguise (at least I like thinking your way better than mine, lol)!! Thanks again Richard and I am smiling a ton just being able to read your comment 🙂 🙂
Kelly says
OMG – you are my people! I always do stuff like this and screw it up… my MIL just looks at me like I'm an idiot….
JanineHuldie says
Kelly, love it and so happy to be in such good company. Thanks for letting me know I am not alone here 🙂 🙂
Melanie Chisnall says
Yay! I love that you wrote a blog post about how your candy pops failed. You NEVER read about stuff like that – just about how perfectly everything turned out. Love it Janine – keeping it real! 😉 It's funny I read this today because I was chatting with a friend this morning (who happens to be from Oregon) while we were at the beach and she was talking about making cake pops. She told me you HAVE to mix frosting in with the cake, and I thought that was odd. Now I see why! Live and learn, right? Sure your next batch will be divine! 🙂
JanineHuldie says
Melanie, you will see a lot of my mistakes here, because let me tell you I am the queen of making mistakes, lol!! Seriously, I couldn't make half of this up if I tried and figure at least others can get a chuckle here and there. Thanks and hope you are right about my next batch 🙂 🙂
Aprille says
this is why I stick with brownies…
JanineHuldie says
Thanks Aprille and you live and learn lol 🙂