Cake Lollipops

Jeff, Ethan, and I are going to make our way over to West Seattle today to hang out with some of our friends. I had offered to make Root beer Baked Beans. If you have never had these you can find the recipe here. So yummy.

I also decided to try my hand at bringing a dessert along too and decided to make cake lollipops. Jeff had gotten me a cake pop book for Christmas so I followed the directions from there.

I used strawberry cake mix with vanilla frosting that Ethan had picked out while we were at the grocery store. Below are a couple of photos I took of the process while making them.

First you bake the cake using the directions on the box.

Then you crumble up the cake so that is it pretty fine with no clumps.

Then you mix in about 1/2 of a frosting container so that the frosting acts as a binder for the cake and you roll the cake mixture into balls.

You put these in the refrigerator for several hours so that they firm up and then dip them in dipping candy coating (I got mine at Michael's craft store) or you can dip them in chocolate if you prefer. We also topped ours with different kinds of sprinkles that Ethan got to pick.



Everybody shout what's the big idea...

For those of you who have kids you may recognize the above song lyric from the Disney Imagination Movers. It is one of Ethan's go to tv shows and guess what? They came to the Seattle Paramount this last weekend to perform live in concert. Jeff had gone all out for the show and purchased front row seats which included tickets to the after party where you could get your picture taken with the cast.

Ethan was very excited to go see them in Seattle but once we got there he actually came down with a fever so he spent most of the show on mom's lap trying to get comfortable. He did dance a little bit but just was not himself. At the after party and some food in his stomach he started to enjoy himself a little more but still clammed up when we got a picture with the movers. It must have been a good show for him though since he had a good time even though he was a sick little guy.