I've never made or eaten cake pops before now. So, I don't have a taste comparison. I made them for the first time over the weekend. I used left over cake top, crumbled in my food processor and indydebbi's buttercream. Mixed together, by hand and rolled into balls. After freezing for about an hour, dipped them in chocolate. My question is this, do they typically taste gross???? I mean these were almost inedible. Did I just do it wrong????
Thanks In Advance,
Christina
define inedible -- i mean how bad would cake icing and chocolate be? was it the texture? are cake pops the same as cake balls?
ATaste is subjective, but yes I think they are gross. However, if I find myself needing to shovel something down my gullet like I was Alicia Silverstones child getting pre chewed food, I would prefer ones made with no binder, or a less sweet binder like a curd or coffee.
i made some with alcohol involved -- red velvet plus fudge cake combined and then rolled them in powdered sugar -- i think those were the only ones i ever made just to not waste all the leftover scraps -- they weren't bad -- i think it gets different with the hard candy shell -- i think kids would like those but not adults as much but obviously i'm not an expert cake popper
AOh I could never stand the texture of them personally. I bought one years ago when the got all trendy and I just could not get with it. I just couldn't
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I've never made or eaten cake pops before now. So, I don't have a taste comparison. I made them for the first time over the weekend. I used left over cake top, crumbled in my food processor and indydebbi's buttercream. Mixed together, by hand and rolled into balls. After freezing for about an hour, dipped them in chocolate. My question is this, do they typically taste gross???? I mean these were almost inedible. Did I just do it wrong????
Thanks In Advance,
Christina
What don`t you like taste of chocolate coating or combination of cake & icing?
I made some and used candy melts for coating, my kids really didn`t like candy melts taste.
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Cake pops are nothing more than mashed up cake. Sort of like when we stop chewing on a piece of cake, set it aside for a while, then pop it back in to finish chewing. Mmmm, good.
MimiFix,
You kill me!!!!! That is how I would define it. They were just nasty tasting. I had left over cake tops and my boys had a bake sale going on, so I thought it would be a fun way to get rid of the leftover cake. There are so many cute ways to decorate them. At least they looked good! The chocolate on top was yummy. But the cake part...NOT!
Thank you everyone for the answers. At least now I know it wasn't some mistake I made. Good thing I also made cupcake!!!!
Stay Sweet~
Christina
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks they're disgusting! The only kind that taste good (really good!) imo are made with vanilla cake and peanut butter instead of icing.
The ones with oreos and cream cheese are ok to good, IMHO. But cake balls/pops…yuck.
The less frosting the better I think. The gross ones are completely mushy like Mimi said. I prefer the the balls baked into spheres, Those are great!
I have to tell you, I don't use the frosting at all... I go to the grocery store, buy a slice of cheesecake and use that. AND IT'S DELICIOUS. Plus, it rolls much much smoother...
I've never used one of those cake pop bakers, but they'd taste good. I think frosting makes them toooooooo sweet.
The key to making a good cake pop is that the icing has to be very thin you don't use your regular icing you dilute it, don't put that much and make sure your chocolate is also very thin. Your cake pops should look like cake when you bite it. The only downsize to making them like this is it takes longer to set up, I usually leave mine in the refrigerator all night. But I have had great results, they are very delicious just like my cakes and I get nothing but compliments from adults.
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The key to making a good cake pop is that the icing has to be very thin you don't use your regular icing you dilute it, don't put that much and make sure your chocolate is also very thin. Your cake pops should look like cake when you bite it. The only downsize to making them like this is it takes longer to set up, I usually leave mine in the refrigerator all night. But I have had great results, they are very delicious just like my cakes and I get nothing but compliments from adults.
Sparkles et al:
Thank you for all the great replies. I like the look of cake pops and the ones that I did make were fun to decorate. Maybe I'll take your advice and try again. I definitely followed the wrong recipe.
Stay Sweet!
Christina ~
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When my cousin did cake pops she broke cake into little pieces instead of making crumbs.
You can still make crumbs you don't have to do it in a food processor though, just make sure your icing is really soft and you don't need that much. You really only need like a tablespoon or a little more for a one 8 inch layer of cake.
My sister who eats ANYTHING sweet would not even eat the ones made by a famous cake ball maker, nor would her 8 year old..they are gross!!
I have the CP-34R flip over cake ball maker by Baby Cakes..it's kinda like a Belgian waffle maker, and it works like a dream!! Granted, you can only make round ones, but I baked 300 in a morning, put choc on in the afternoon, wrapped and was done in one day...they were just sitting in the muffin cup, not the vertical kind, but they tasted awesome!!
i think i will stop while i'm ahead at having made cake balls once -- there were a couple platters to be taken to area police departments and my son took off to deliver them but never did -- he kept all those freaking cake balls -- he took them back to california on the plane omg so funny --
edited to say -- they were a surprise gift not anything the police ordered
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The key to making a good cake pop is that the icing has to be very thin you don't use your regular icing you dilute it, don't put that much and make sure your chocolate is also very thin. Your cake pops should look like cake when you bite it. The only downsize to making them like this is it takes longer to set up, I usually leave mine in the refrigerator all night. But I have had great results, they are very delicious just like my cakes and I get nothing but compliments from adults.
Sparkles et al:
Thank you for all the great replies. I like the look of cake pops and the ones that I did make were fun to decorate. Maybe I'll take your advice and try again. I definitely followed the wrong recipe.
Stay Sweet!
Christina ~
You're welcome and I certainly will I'm full of sugar, lol...
Thanks again,
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