I think there is a little learning curve to this. I may have overfilled the pan a little which made my cake balls look like mars. I also overcooked them a bit as an unexpected visit from the carpet cleaning man took place as my cooking time was nearing the end. But since they weren't officially charred, I decided to go ahead with my first chocolate candy coating dipping of the bites. I only made about 10 and threw out the rest of the batch because I thought it would taste awful. As it turns out, everyone was oblivious to the overcookage and this was the most attention I've received over my baking in a LONG time. Love these pans, the lighter consistency of the cake seems much more tasty than a frosting laden gooey hand rolled cake ball. WAY cleaner process too.
A few tips:
~ Use cooking spray made for baking with flour in it.
~ Add a complimentary box of pudding to your cake mix (Ie, I added chocolate to go with my red velvet cake mix).
~ Use water instead of milk on the cake box instructions, and half the amount of liquid.
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| Spray pans, and also spray the top where cake will ooze out. |
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| Add your doctored cake mix. Use the bakepop instruction booklet. |
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| Close with these little yellow clasps. |
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| Mine seriously oozed out the top. But, it pops off very easily with a push from a rubberized spatula. |
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| See, ooze is gone. |
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| Wow, they're really balls. See the bottom left ball? They almost all had that ridge. I used a kitchen scissor to quickly trim that off. Less tedious than crumbling an entire cake and mixing icing into it. |
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| Finished cake balls. A bit too crispy and slight smell of burnt cake but not really DARK brown. |
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| 1pkg chocolate candy melts |
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| microwave for 30 second intervals, and stir. you can add a little crisco if needed but I didn't find it necessary. |
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| My first cake ball ever! |
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| I used a toothpick for all of these. Not very durable, but doable. |
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| Added some sprinkles. |
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Dessert is served! |
