Cake Pops

Getting creative for easter? Well that's what me and some friends got this saturday, and ended up spending nearly 6 hours in the kitchen baking cake balls. It was a lot of work!! But hey, they are just the yummiest thing ever, right? And we had a lot of fun making them, even though the coating kept teasing us... 

We made two different kinds; banana bread and vanilla cake. Both were super good. Here is the recipe for the banana bread ones. We just used a vanilla cake box for the vanilla cake.


Banana Bread ingredients:

1 cup granulated sugar 
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened 
2 eggs 
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 
1/2 cup sour cream 
2 ripe bananas
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 
1 teaspoon baking soda 
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon 
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 
1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions:

Mix sugar and butter in a mixer for a couple of minutes until combined. Add eggs and vanilla and mix. Mash the bananas and add those and the sour cream and peanut butter to the bowl. 
In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. 
Slowly add this to the wet ingredients and continue mixing on low-medium speed. 
Pour into a greased loaf pan and bake in a preheated oven for about 35-40 minutes. 

Here are the steps to making the cake pops:

1. Put the cake in a food processor and process until all crumbled up. Take a little at a time, and put the rest in a bowl.
2. Add about 1/2 cup creme cheese frosting. Stir it all around until it gets kind of firm and forms into little crumbles. You need to be able to make little balls that does not come apart.
3. Shape the cake balls and put on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper and freeze for about an hour. This step will make the coating process a lot easier.
4. Heat up, in a microwave, either chocolate chips or candy coating until melted all the way. Do it 30 seconds at a time and stir in between to make sure it doesn't burn. 
5. Stick a popsicle stick (or any other kind of stick) into a ball and cover with the coating. This can be kind of hard, but just be patient and take your time. This is also the fun part.
6. If you want to add sprinkled go ahead and add them now, before the coating hardens.
7. Let them dry upside down, if you want to make real cake pops. If you don't have anything to stick them into, as in out case, just let them dry on a baking sheet. 
8. Store in refrigerator, and enjoy! 

Another thing we made was Oreo Balls. They were super easy to make. Just purify the oreos in a food processor and fold in creme cheese. Let them sit for an hour in the fridge and shape to little balls or eggs and coat in chocolate. The best thing ever!

Ingredients:

1 package golden oreos
1 8oz package creme cheese
Chocolate chips for coating