Christmas Cake Pops!

Alright... this wasn't made at any restaurant, but my cousins and I thought we'd take a stab at making cake pops! We weren't able to find the sticks to make them into actual cake pops, so we made cake balls instead. :) I tried to document the process step by step, so here we go!

Smush, smush, smush!

After baking some red velvet cake, we broke the whole cake into a "sandy" texture. 

Red Hands! 

 Then we rolled it into a huge cake ball! After that we stuck it in the fridge overnight. 

Roll, roll, roll!

We rolled about 70 cake balls... they were all uneven since we didn't have a melon baller. We had the cake balls in the fridge while we melted the chocolate. 

Dip!

We stuck toothpicks in the cake balls to make it easier to dip. It worked majority of the time, but we had to be careful and couldn't go all dipping crazy...

Decorating time!!!

 After dipping, we got to the fun part. We decorated the cake balls with sprinkles and all that jazz!

Christmas tree!

These were the cutest!

After decorating, we pull out the toothpick. The toothpick left a little hole on the top, but we used the left over chocolate to cover it. 

Finished product!

The whole process was fun, but super messy, especially when we had to roll them into balls. It was our first time, so it was also a learning experience. The chocolate wasn't as thick as we wanted it to be, but it somewhat worked. What I loved the best was hanging out with my cousins and blasting my NSYNC Christmas cd. We haven't seen each other for a while since life gets in the way. Anyways, I hope you guys get to enjoy some family loving time like I did. In the words of NSYNC, "Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays!!!!!!"

- R