Inspired by reading about cake pops on thecraftypenguin blog (see the link in my previous post) I decided to try and make my own, but put my own twist on it. Which, I admit, came from the fact that I didn't have any popsicle sticks to put them on. So, with that change, I decided to make "cake dumplings"
Most of the steps of cake dumplings are the same as a cake pop. First, you bake a cake and then when its cool crumble it into little bits. Then, you put about half a can of icing in, and stir it around to make the mixture stick together.
I used food coloring to make the cake and the icing pink (since I was going to use chocolate raspberry for the toppings)
Then you take a small handful of the mixture, for it into a little ball, and place it on a cookie sheet.
After that I made a double-boiler and melted half a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips, and added chocolate raspberry sauce from the pampered chef that one of my roommates ordered before she suddenly quit and left. (al the pampered chef stuff was delivered like a week after she ended up leaving, and we've had a really fun time eating up all the leftover goodies!) Once the chocolate is melted, its time to cover the cake dumplings!
As the picture demonstrates, I just dropped them in the melted chocolate and kind of mixed them around to get them covered in chocolate. After that, you put them on a plate, and let the chocolate cool.
Yum!!!
