Day Thirteen

I was pretty excited when I walked in the bakery today, to hear that we would we baking cake pops. There were many tiers of chocolate and carrot cake in the freezer, so Tammy took them out and we began taking them apart. For a while, Tammy and I stood there breaking all the slices of cake and then crumbling them into very fine grains. I crumbled all the chocolate cake and then Tammy rolled them into bite sized balls. She placed them on a baking sheet.

I finished crumbling the carrot cake that Tammy started, and when it was time to roll them into balls we discovered that the cake wasn't sticking together. To help form the balls of carrot cake, Tammy added some cream cheese frosting into the bowl of cake crumbs. I was able to use all the crumbs and roll a bunch of cake pop balls - it was extremely greasy. As we were rolling the cake crumbs, we both agreed that the cake pops look pretty unappetizing, but nobody realizes it after they are covered in chocolate. 

After we used up all the cake crumbs, we put the sheets into the freezer for them to harden. On another day, they will be dipped and decorated!