Cake Ball Lollipops

_{My daughter loved going to Starbucks, especially to get cake balls because she couldn’t find them anywhere else, until I started making them.}

_{They are so cheap and easy to make, I can make them myself and save a bundle of money compared to what we were paying for them already made.}

<sub>Basically, you only need a few things. You can use any flavor or color cake, frosting, candy melts, sprinkles. This recipe makes 24 cake ball pops.

^{You will need}
1. An un-frosted, baked cake (any flavor)
2. 1 can of frosting (any flavor)
3. Chocolate candy melts (any color/flavor will work) or chocolate chips will also work well.
4. Candy sprinkles
5. Lollipop sticks
Directions:</sub>

• _{Take the cake and break it up with your hands in a big mixing bowl, until you have nothing but crumbs. (Make sure your cake has cooled down after baking)}

• _{Add 1 can of frosting and mix together with your hands until it has the consistency of play-doh, after it is all mixed thoroughly, just start rolling the mixture into balls using approximately 1 Tablespoon of mixture for one. If they end up looking too big or small you can adjust them to the size you want.}

• _{Refrigerate the balls on parchment paper for at least half an hour before dipping in the chocolate, or they will fall right off of the sticks.}

• _{Melt the candy chocolate melts in a double broiler.}

_{There is also the option of putting the chocolate a bowl, setting the bowl in a skillet of simmering water on the stove, and melting the chocolate this way. *Make sure that no water gets in your chocolate!* If you don’t have a double broiler, and you don’t want to use the stove, you can melt your chocolate in the microwave but I don’t do this because I tend to leave it in too long and burn it. Burnt chocolate…yuck!}

• _{Dip the sticks 1/4 of the way into the (one at a time) melted chocolate, I push them halfway through the cake balls and refrigerate for 15-20 minutes.}

• _{Hold onto the stick and dip the cake balls into the chocolate, holding it sideways and rolling the stick between your fingers until the excess chocolate drips off.}

• _{Set them on parchment paper or stand them up in a Styrofoam square and add sprinkles or decorate. Refrigerate for half an hour.}

_{*if your chocolate is too thick and heavy, making the cake balls fall off of the sticks, add a little paraffin wax (the same wax used and found in the canning section at the store) into the chocolate.
**These are great for the Holidays,the black and orange ones I made for Halloween**
Use your imagination for other colors for special occasions and holidays!}