hello and welcome to you in the kitchen with Matt I am your host Matt Taylor
today I'm gonna show you how to make cake pops
I had requests to make cake pops so here we go that is what we're gonna do
they're really easy to make simple ingredients if I can do it
you can do it let's get started alright first what you want to do is you want to
bake yourself a cake using whatever recipe you want cake mixes work really
great for this I just did a yellow cake here and a 13 by 9 pan I'm just gonna
take half of it and we're gonna break it up into pieces all right let's go ahead
and break up these bigger clumps with our hands we really want to get this
really fine small crumbs and you could try using like a hand mixer it might
throw a bunch of cake all over the place but it really breaks up the cake really
nicely this is an instance where a stand mixer would work well with like a paddle
attachment another trick that you could
do is you could use your knife and just shave off the brown parts the cook part
because those don't break down as easily
and then everything else will come apart
but that's pretty good now what we want
to do is we want to add our frosting I'm
just using a store-bought frosting you
can make your own frosting if you want
and we're gonna add a little bit at a
time and just come in here with your
hands and mix it together again you can
use your stand mixer if you want okay
and so you get it to where everything
comes together about like this I just
use a really big heaping tablespoon
amount of being about two two and a half
tablespoons of frosting and the
consistency you want me when you squeeze
it together it kind of stays together
really nicely okay there we go
it almost looks like a play-doh and then
I'm just gonna use a tablespoon and come
in here and get some out I kind of want
two tablespoons and that'll make a nice
little cake pop so try to get about two tablespoons worth and just kind of
squeeze it in your hand a little bit and
then roll it up into a ball and just
rolls really nicely this way I miss a little bit too big I think I'm just
gonna shave some up okay just roll it
with your palms tell us a ball like that all right now we have our kick balls all
rolled up now a normal cake mix box will
make about 24 to 26 cake pops
depending on the size that you make them
let me go ahead and just set this up
here and now I have this product called candy quick I just got this at Walmart
you can find it online as well it just
melts really well and there's a really
good consistency you could also use
candy melts I use those as well
or you can just use normal chocolate
chips or what not and I just have them
in this little bowl and I'm going to start by just melting this in the
microwave on bursts of 30 seconds and
then stir in 30 seconds stir until it's
all nice and melted all right once there
you have that little chocolate melted go
ahead and take some of our cake sticks
now these are just cold treat sticks or
cake pop sticks and I found these at Walmart but you're Dan you can fly them
online just go ahead and dip it in there
almost an inch thick just go ahead and
poke it right there on your cake pop and
if you want the bottom to be smooth just
smooth that out with your finger just do
that with the other ones
and just go in about almost an inch you
don't want to go too far and then we
want to see how flat the bottom got
because it's resting on there you can
kind of just shape that back if you want
and I'm gonna go ahead and just stick
this on a thing of styrofoam okay or if
you have a cake pop stand
you can use that as well you can also
when you pick it up you could put the
cake pop in the little flat side that
was sitting down so you can kind of
cover up that little flat spot alright
now that we have these done I'm going to
go ahead and pop this in the
refrigerator to chill them down a little
bit for about 10 minutes and then we can
dip them all right and then once we take
those cake pops out of the fridge we'll
go to go ahead and grab one and now we
just want to dip it in our chocolate
just tilt the bowl a little bit and you
can just spin it if you want depending
on how deep your bowl is I mean you
could take your spoon and just help it a
little bit so it's even okay and then
what we want to do is just kind of tap
it a little bit and get that excess off
and as I'm tapping I'm just turning a
little bit just to try to make this as
smooth as possible okay that's awesome I
think that turned out pretty great I'm
gonna go ahead and put that back in my
styrofoam and then here's an example
where I'm using a deeper glass and I'm
using pink and just go ahead and just go
straight down and you're moving around a
little bit I'm gonna come up and then
again still want to tap it a little bit
cuz there's gonna be a lot of excess
it's gonna want to come off just gentle
taps if you tap too hard the cake pop
might fall off of the stick
so this process could be a little
tedious if you're making a ton of these
then you just get like a group of
friends over or family members and just
have a little cake pop making party oh
we go ahead and do that with the first
go with whatever flavor of chocolate
that you want to do white chocolate milk
chocolate different kinds of colors of
candy melts and so on alright and now
what you can do is you could just take
anything like a little plastic bag and
put some chocolate in there and make or
whatever whatever color you want and
make like a little piping bag
and drizzle over it all right and then
when you're done just go ahead and those
sit for a little bit so the top drizzles
can go ahead and firm up and they'll be
ready to go ready to serve all right the
cake pops are done turned out fantastic
really easy to do if I can do it you can
do it
I'm Matt Taylor this has been another
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time for me to dive into one of these oh
yeah I'm going to bite into this one
right here