My Birthday / Mint Chocoalte Chip Cake Pops

Hello again! Did you miss me? I know it's been awhile but I've been busy.  I turned 30, for one thing, but that's irrelevant to this post, I guess.  I got a bunch of cake pop supplies for my birthday - thanks to all who funded this hobby! :-)

I also received two rather generous gifts which I couldn't be happier with. First, my brother, sister and their spouses all chipped in to buy me the below KitchenAid Standing Mixer! They asked me to pick the color so I went with the Dark Blue, since it was the most unusual of the choices.  I know I don't need to say this, but I do love it so. It works perfectly and I use it for more than just mixing cakes!

The second item was from my brother and sister-in-law, and it was this unique Cake Pop Stand! It assembles rather easily and collapses and is very portable. I love it!

Anyway, back to the cake pops. My friend Kerri has been badgering me at work ever since I started doing cake pops to do Mint Chocolate.  Now, I personally, have a love/hate relationship with Mint Chocolate anything -- It triggers my heartburn really badly.  But these turned out really nice!  Yes, I did taste one. Just one... and they kind of came out tasting like Mint Oreo's.  And who doesn't love an Oreo?

So how did I get the mint flavor?  Simple, I started with Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge cake mix, the kind my mom used to make.  Have you ever heard of Duncan Hines Frosting Creations?  I haven't actually made the frosting yet, but I purchased a packet of the Mint flavoring and added that to the cake batter. This added a slight flavor of mint to the chocolate cake.  Turns out this step wasn't that necessary as the mint in the Mint Chocolate candy coating provides all the mintiness you will need.  But it's an easy way to add flavor to cake batter, so try it out.

The next step was to roll the cake balls.  FYI, I have started rolling the balls and letting them chill in the fridge for a full 24 hours.  This makes them so much easier to work with and guarantees they won't fall off the stick when dipping them in the candy coating later.

I have never worked with Dark Mint candy coating before but these wafers were extremely easy to work with.  Perfect consistency -- not too gloppy and not too runny.  I sprinkled the top with some green and white nonpareils and some mini chocolate chips.  Overall these are delicious and anyone who loves Mint Oreo is going to love these!  Enjoy!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake Pops

I've been wanting do these for a while now. I do have an internal list in my mind of recipes I want to do and with recent business in my life I just never had the time to do them... until now! I love Chocolate Peanut Butter anything: ice cream, candy, brownies, cookies, desserts, water ice, anything. And I new making these would be very easy!  Chocoalte + Peanut Butter = Deliciousness.

This was my first time working with Make N Mold Peanut Butter Melts. 

They were very easy to work with (very thin consistency) and tasted like real peanut butter!  If you are going to try this recipe I definitely recommend buying yourself two bags.  I only bought one bag and just got by with one bag for coating all the cake balls.  I just spelled recommend incorrectly - I always want to add 2 c's.  Always.

I used chocolate cake mix with chocolate frosting.  Peanut butter candy melts and a Reese's Pieces candy on top.

Then a drizzle of dark chocolate around the sides.  The only reason I added the drizzle was to try to hide the fact that they do look like Boobs.

The results were very good.  The only thing I might try in the future is trying Chocolate cake mix crumbled with actual Peanut Butter instead of chocolate frosting.  The peanut butter candy coating does add Peanut butter flavor, but I just wish there were more.

So that's that!  I've been getting a lot of requests for Mint Chocolate Chip cake pops at work so I think I just might have to do those next.  Reluctantly... ... I hate mint.

S'MORES Cake Pops

These were fun!  I made them using Chocolate cake crumbled with chocolate frosting coated with Dark Chocolate candy coating. Finished with crushed graham crackers and mini-marshmallows.

Cookies N' Cream Cake Pops

These were fun. And delicious.  I made these on a day where Frank and some of our friends were having a video game tournament.  While they all had the living room to themselves, I took over the kitchen and did my work.

I used chocolate cake and crushed OREO cookies combined with Chocolate buttercream frosting. The cake balls were coated with Vanilla candy coating and sprinkled with crushed OREO's.  

Rocky Road Pops

I made these, along with some Birthday cake pops, for a New Year's Eve party and everyone loved them.  I made these using Chocolate cake crumbled with chocolate frosting.  The cake balls were coated with dark chocolate candy coating, almonds and marshmallows. Marshmallows are also in the cake as well, however, in the future I won't do this again as it causes problems when adding the lollipop stick.