Dear Bakerella,
You have made getting through lunch with a toddler so much easier - due to your invention of cake pops! Thank you!
Where we usually eat during the week, Elizabeth is allowed to get a cake pop after lunch if she eats all her food, and seriously that is sometimes the only way she will eat!! My child, the one who eats salad, broccoli trees, carrots and 100 calorie packs WILL NOT eat a whole cupcake, slice of cake..etc. She just doesn't eat sweets, and if she does its a bite or a lick! Mama and Daddy eat sweets, so not sure where she gets disliking of desserts from. When Dustin and i first started dating (back when ya wrote checks ha ha...) his checks had a small saying on the front and it was, "Life is too short, eat dessert first. I never understood that saying because growing up i had to eat my food first before i got desserts!!
I decided to make the princess cake pops the other night, and when i posted the picture of them to facebook alot of ya'll wanted the recipe. Well, sorry folks i didn't invent them, however, they were very good! They were reeeally sweet and moist and everyone loved them. The only twist i did with them is i used the strawberry cake mix from Duncan Hines and the 20 oz. "real" cream cheese icing in a can! Super fun to make, especially when a 2 year old is at your feet screaming CAKE POPS, CAKE POPS!!! ..and when you give them to her its all worth that little smile :+)
Strawberry Cream Cheese Cake Pops
1 box Strawberry Duncan Hines cake mix (cook as directed on box)
1 can cream cheese frosting
(calls for 16 oz. - i used 20. oz :)
1 package white/dark chocolate bark
wax paper
1. After cake is cooked and cooled, crumble into large bowl.
2. Mix thoroughly with 1 can cream cheese frosting
3. Roll mixture into quarter size balls and lay on cookie sheet
4. Let chill overnight - or for several hours
5. Melt chocolate
6. Roll balls in chocolate and lay on wax paper then sprinkle Prinkles (as E says)
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potty training...
.. which lasted me uh.. a day :)
