Cake pops are super cute but they can be overly sweet (and if I think something is too sweet, you know it’s true). I am just getting interested in making them. I would never bake a cake just to crumble it up, but I did make too many vanilla cake layers the other day when I was baking a cake for an event I catered. For catering events, I always like to make more than enough just in case somethings goes haywire. As a result, I had an extra 9 inch cake layer. I put it in the freezer so that I could use it later. I wasn’t inspired to do anything with it until I read a blog about cake pops. I realized it was high time I try my hand at them. I opted to keep things very simple- this is just a basic recipe for a round cake pop, minimally decorated. The big tips here are using coconut oil to thin the candy melts. My first cake pop fell apart because the candy coating was too thick. Thinning it out with coconut oil meant I could easily coat the cake pop and keep the coating thinner (b...
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