Easter Cake Pops

I've baked a lot of cakes and cupcakes, but I hadn't yet tackled cake pops. They are all the craze and now every Starbucks offers them in three flavors. I'm an avid follower of the Bakerella blog (I know, I wish I'd claimed that name first) and recently bought her Cake Pop book.  For my first try, I made these Easter cake pops and have to say that they tasted fantastic.

It does take some time, but they are really quite easy to make. You basically crumble up a cake and add the appropriate amount of buttercream frosting to make what seems like a cookie dough texture to form into the cake pop shape of your choice.  I chose eggs. Add a stick and it's a pop!

I made some oval ones to attempt decorating like eggs and some round ones because, well, that was an easier shape to do.  It took me a few times, but I started to get the hang of how to dip them in the chocolate coating. I definitely wasn't freezing or chilling them in between dipping in the chocolate and that certainly would have helped.

I think it was a fantastic idea for how to decorate the "eggs."  You used a small brush with corn syrup to put on the frosted egg and add your sugar or sprinkles.

This was way too many cake pops to have at home, so I placed them in a little Easter basket to deliver to the office.

Chocolate Easter Bunny

I got a bit frustrated and really have a lot of respect for chocolatiers after trying to mold my own chocolate Easter bunnies. Notice the title of this post is just "bunny" and not plural. I was able to salvage one bunny, but no more. It was difficult to get the shell thick enough, without air pockets and to get both sides to stick together. A one-sided bunny would have been much easier, but of course I have to spring for the three dimensional bunny from the get-go. I had two different bunny molds and used a brush to put the melted milk chocolate in the mold and held them together with binder clips and paper clips (a new use for my old office supplies). After putting them in the freezer for a while to harden, I carefully pulled away the molds to see what I had. I did get one of the small bunnies to stay together for me. The others came apart, but the chocolate pieces were still enjoyed in my period of depression over not being able to get them to stay together.

I was happy (as was Audrey) that I ended up with at least one bunny and she thoroughly enjoyed it after her nap on Easter.