Cake balls

Well...my idea to attempt cake pops flopped when I realised I didn't know where to get lollipop sticks from! So instead I had to be content making cake balls. I conveniently had some vanilla cake left over form another baking experiement, so i crumbled this finely with my fingers and added some vanilla icing (store bought) and mixed well. My quantities were slightly out - I think I had too much icing for the amount of cake (about 350 - 400 gm for one whole cake is best). Despite this the mixture still tasted pretty good, just a bit overly sweet!
I rolled the mixture into balls (small walnut) and popped them on a baking tray and into the freezer to harden. Once hard, I simply melted some cooking chocolate in a bain marie and dipped - getting them out was tricky, I tried a toothpick but it broke! so I ended up using a fork :) The balls went back onto the baking sheet, were quicly sprinkled in chocolate hail and replaced in the freezer for a few minutes. After this I inserted the wee flags which I made using white paper, felts, crayons, scissors, glue stick and toothpicks (cute!). They were nice, but just too sweet to inflict on my close circle of willing tasters!
Lessons learned: Get the ratio of icing to cake right, use homemade icing, use chocolate made specifically for coating or candy making, lollipop sticks would be handy when it comes to dipping and keep the balls small as they gat significantly larger after dipping.
Easy to make though and a real cute idea - see the link here for some 'extreme' cake pop creations!

Some flavours I have thought about trying for the future are...banana cake and lemon icing with white chocolate, coffee/cinnamon cake and coffee icing with milk chocolate, chocolate chilli cake and chocolate icing withdark chocolate, and carrot cake with cream cheese icing with white chocolate. Yum!