Jack 'O Lantern Cake Pops

We tried making the Halloween Cake Pops from the cover of the BC fall baking booklet. It turned in to a complete disaster for Sarita, Tesia and I.

We followed directions and let the cake balls sit in the freezer for 15 min then switched to fridge. We took out one ball each after melting the Wilton candy melts in the microwave. The balls slid up the sticks or fell completely off, so we returned the remaining balls to the freezer for another 20 minutes then back to the fridge.

We remelted the candy melts but they were still way to thick. We followed a trick on the pack of the candy melt package to add some shortening and return them to the microwave. Still too thick.

We tried to get them to coat the cake balls by drizzling them with a spoon instead of dipping them, but not much luck there either. We finally gave up and ate some of the cake balls without the candy melt coating. They were good that way. None of us liked the way the candy melts tasted anyway.

We did manage to get a few coated without them falling off the sticks, but when they dried they were bumpy and the food markers wouldn't write on them. We decided to call this a total failure except for the cake balls being tasty by themselves.