Easter Egg Pops
Submitted by: Jennette V.
I like to keep a spring theme by using lemon cake and frosting, but you can use any flavor of cake and frosting you'd like.
Ingredients:
One 9 x 13 cake, any flavor
One can (16 oz) prepared frosting, any flavor
4 cups white candy coating
Assorted sprinkles and small candies for decorating
About 48 lollipop sticks
Directions:
Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with aluminum foil or waxed paper.
Place
the cake in a large bowl, and crumble it roughly with your hands. Once
it's in fine crumbs, add about 2/3 of the frosting and begin to mix it
with your hands into the cake crumbs, working until the mixture is
evenly moistened. You want the cake mixture to easily hold together
when you press it into a ball, but still retain a little texture. My
personal preference is to have some “crumb” left to the crumb, so that
it is not just a gooey ball. Of course, tastes vary, so if it seems as
if the cake mixture is too dry, or you like a gooier taste, add more
frosting until you're happy with the taste and texture.
Using a
cookie scoop or teaspoon, form the mixture into small balls about 1
inch in diameter. Roll the balls into oblong shapes between your palms,
and pinch one end until it's thinner so that they resemble egg shapes.
Place them on the prepared baking sheet and freeze until firm, about 30
minutes.
After the Easter egg pops have been frozen, remove them
from the freezer. Melt the candy coating in the microwave and stir
until completely smooth.
Poke a skewer into the bottom of each
"egg" to make a small hole. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the
melted coating, then push the coating-covered tip into the hole in the
egg. The coating will soon solidify and help hold the stick in place.
Repeat until all of the eggs have been skewered.
Holding a cake
pop by the stick, dip the cake entirely in the candy coating until it
is covered. Remove it from the coating and gently tap the stick against
the side of the bowl to remove excess coating. Hold it until the
coating sets (which will not take long with cold cake!) or stick the
cake pop in a piece of Styrofoam to set. Repeat until all of the eggs
are dipped. If they start to get too soft and move too much on their
sticks, return them to the freezer very briefly until they firm up.
Once
all of the Easter egg cake pops have been dipped, it's time to
decorate! Pour some of the remaining melted candy coating into a paper
cone or a plastic bag with the tip cut off, and pipe on lines, dots, or
squiggles for decorations. While the coating is still wet, cover it
with sprinkles or candies to make colorful designs and patterns on your
eggs. Alternately, you could apply light corn syrup with a paintbrush
and use this to affix sprinkles and candies to your eggs instead.
Let
the coating or corn syrup dry completely, and your Easter egg cake pops
are finished! Store the cake pops in an airtight container in the
refrigerator for up to a week. For the best taste and texture, allow
them to come to room temperature for about 20 minutes before serving.
