BABY TURTLE: Cake Pops Friday

I am a fan of Bakerella and her cake pops - bite size cake Popsicles.... So last friday, mimi, me and Megan decided to tested it out. Megan was so keen on the idea that come Friday morning, she crashed into our room at 730am shouting "lets make cake pops, lets make cake pops today!"

Ingredients from Phoon Huat AMK :

Sara Lee Pound cake (ready made cake! No baking!)

Creamy vanilla frosting (not available so we have to make from scratch)

Candy Melts

Candy coloring

Lollipop sticks

Sprinklers (kids simply love them)

Let's get it straight. Me and mimi are no baker. I am making cake pops for Megan to have fun and get her hands dirty. Mimi is invited to join so that while I goggle what went wrong, she can continue the process with her grand daughter.

First make the frosting - WikiHow says to mix 11/2 cups of sugar with 1/2 cups of butter, 2 table spoon of cream and a few drops of vanilla essence together.

Beat mixture until a peak forms... end result should be totally different from what Megan is demonstrating in the picture here.

The process of making cake pops is far longer and complicated than I envision - in hindsight, maybe not a great idea for an impatient kid. But then as long as you can bear through a hundred "are we ready to make the next step yet?', "is the butter soft yet?", you are fine. So I am glad I cheat through the actual baking process and opt for Sara Lee pound cake.

Crumble the Sara Lee cake into tiny crumbs and add the frosting to the disintegrated cake.

Mix them together to form a paste so that the cake mixture can bind together when you roll them into balls. Be warned not to add too much frosting or the mixture will be so wet that they will fall off the lollipop sticks!

Megan has rolled enough plasticine balls to do a great job... then comes my mum whose hand rolled balls made ours look like crap...

Stick lollipop sticks into the balls. But first, dip the end of the sticks into melted candy chocolate before poking them to ensure they stick to the cake balls. Child labor is perfect for this job as they take it very seriously.

Cake pops need to harden in the freezer before you can coat them in melted chocolate. In the mean time, prepare the sprinklers and chocolate bits. Watch your little one as a proportion of these sweets will go missing before you even started.

This is the part where everything gets a bit messy. Kid's attention is divided between eating the ingredients and adding the finishing touches which means they are not fast enough for the harden coating. It has been a few hours of hard work and they are tired and has grown cranky. Because this is also the most interesting part, they refuse help from anyone but want to finish every pop themselves!