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Today we are going to show you how to make cake pops.

We had requests to make cake pops so here we go that is what we're going to do they're really easy to make simple ingredients.

If we can do it you can do it, let's get started, alright.

First what you want to do is you want to bake yourself a cake using whatever recipe you want.

Cake mixes work really great for this, we just use a yellow cake here with a 13 by 9 pan. 

We are just going to take half of it and going to break it up into pieces, all right, let's go ahead and break up these bigger clumps with our hands.

We really want to get this really fine into small crumbs, and you could try using like a hand mixer, it might throw a bunch of cake all over the place.

But it really breaks up the cake really nicely, this is an instance where a stand mixer would work well with like a paddle

Another trick that you could do is you could use your knife and just shave off the brown parts of the cook part because those don't break down as easily and then everything else will come apart, but that's pretty good.

Now what we want to do is we want to add frosting, here we are  just using a store-bought frosting you can make your own frosting if you want, and we're going to add a little at a time. 

Just come in here with your hands and mix it together again you can use your stand mixer if you want okay and so you get it to where everything comes together about like

This just use a huge heaping tablespoon amount up being about two and a half tablespoons of frosting and the consistency you want me when you squeeze it together it kind of stays together really nicely. 

It almost looks like a play-doh, and then I'm just going to use a tablespoon and come in here and get some out kind of want two tablespoons and that'll make a nice little cake pop, so try to get about two tablespoons worth.

Just kind of squeeze it in your hand a little and then roll it up into a ball and just rolls really nicely with your palms.

Alright now as we have our kick balls all rolled up now for a normal cake mix box will make about 24 to 26 cake pops depending on the size that you make them.

Let us go ahead and just set this up here, and you can just use normal chocolate chips or what not and I just have them in this little bowl, and I'm going to start by just melting this in the microwave on bursts of 30 seconds. 

Then stir in 30 seconds stir until it's all pleasant and melted all right once there you have that little chocolate melted go ahead and take some cake sticks now these are just cold treat sticks or cake pop sticks.  

Get them online just go ahead and dip it in there almost an inch thick just go ahead and poke it right on your cake pop and if you want the bottom to be smooth just smooth that out with your finger.

Just do that with the other ones and just go in about almost an inch you don't want to go too far, and then we want to see how flat the bottom got because it's resting on there you can kind of just shape that back if you want.

Neatly we are  going to go ahead and just stick this on a thing of styrofoam okay or if you have a cake pop stand you can use that as well you can also when you pick it up you could put the cake pop in the little flat side that was sitting down to you can kind of cover up that little flat spot.

Alright now that we have these done we are going to go ahead and pop this in the refrigerator to chill them down a little for about 10 minutes, and then we can dip them all right and then once we take those cake pops out of the fridge.

We'll go to go ahead and grab one, and now we just want to dip it in our chocolate just tilt the bowl a little, and you can just spin it if you want depending on how deep your bowl is.

Mean you could take your spoon and just help it a little, so it's even okay and then what we want to do is just kind of tap it a little and get that excess off and  as we are tapping just turning a little.

Just to try to make this as smooth as possible okay that's awesome I think that turned out pretty great, going to go ahead and put that back. 

Then here's an example where we are using a deeper glass and using pink and just go ahead and just go straight down, and you're moving around a little.

Going to come up and then again still want to tap it a little there's going to be a lot of excess it's going to want to come off just gentle taps. 

If you tap too hard the cake pop might fall off of the stick so this process could be a little tedious if you're making a ton of these, then you just get like a group of friends over or family members.

Just have a little cake pop making party, oh we go ahead and do that with the first go with whatever flavour of chocolate that you want to do white chocolate milk.

Chocolate different kinds of colours of candy melts and so on alright and now what you can do is you could just take anything like a little plastic bag and put some chocolate in there and make or whatever colour you want.

Make like a little piping bag and drizzle over it all right and then when you're done just go ahead and those sit for a little, so the top drizzles can go ahead and firm up, and they'll be

Ready to go ready to serve all right the cake pops are done turned out fantastic, really easy to do if I can do it you can do it.

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