I’ve been looking longingly at the cake pops in Starbucks for weeks now, so when I saw these on Vanessa Kimbell’s site I knew I’d have to make them with the kids.
Cake pops are a cross between a lollypop and a cake, and if there’s two things my children love, its lollypops and cake!! We decided on the rocky road pops as they are quick to make and don’t need to be cooked. Z has very little patience with anything that has to be cooked, he likes to be able to eat pretty much instantly.
You can get the recipe from Vanessa’s site here. Ours don’t look quite as good as Vanessa’s, but I did let my 2 and 4 year old make them!
As you can tell the kids were very excited. Unfortunately I sent Daddy to the supermarket to get the digestives and he came back with chocolate ones instead of the plain ones in the recipe, but the chocolately taste to the middle of the pop was actually pretty yummy. Daddy also added some nougat to his, which I wouldn’t recommend!
Smashing the biscuits was lots of fun.
Chocolate dipping!
The finished article.
We loved making these. I couldn’t find any sticks anywhere, so we bought some lollypops and pulled the stick out of them which seemed to work quite well.
Linked up to Cooking with your toddler at The Crazy Kitchen.
>I am so touched!! This is exactly the kind of cooking I imagined when I wrote prepped. Life is delicious. Thankyou so much for sharing this. Vanessa x
>Loving your cake pops & the fact that you let your kids make them, I was going to follow Vanessa's recipe but had some cake left over when I made mine so used that instead but I love the idea of using biscuits instead of making a cake just to crumble up! Did you see my cake pops (http://jessiescrazykitchen.blogspot.com/2011/03/cake-pops.html)& the gorgeous Vanilla blondies (http://jessiescrazykitchen.blogspot.com/2011/01/recipe-testingvanilla-blondies.html that I tested for Vanessa, she has some great recipes & can't wait for Prepped to be released.x
>I have just looked at yours Helen. they look so much more professional than mine!! I am quite excited about Prepped too! xx
>Yummmmy!
>They were very nice!
these look fab. you can get lollipop sticks in a big pack online for amazon (should you be inclined to make these again!!) I did some too (some monster ones and some chocolate ganache ones too. The latter my fave !) x
oooh, I will look on amazon, and at your cake pops! xx
we were planning on making rocky roads, made meringues and biscuits to add to ours.
Thats a great idea! x
Firstly – SNAP on the table cloth :-)))))) and it is fab for blog photos 😉
Secondly – you made cake pops with little people??? Go you… the delicious chocolatey mess!!!!
Thank you for joining Kids Get Crafty! Great to see you there!
Maggy
The Rocky Road ones were not bad, the cake ones were very very messy! xx
yum, I have never made cake pops and these look mighty easy! 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing & linking to the Sunday Showcase! I hope to see you again this week!
Bern
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