Chocolate Vanilla Cake Pops

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 200 g sugar
• 250 g butter
• 4 eggs
• 250 g flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp, heaped vanilla sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 125 g cocoa powder
• 75 g butter
• 125 g cream cheese
• 150 g powdered sugar
• 3 drops of vanilla flavor
• Fat, for the shape
• 1 pack of chocolate coating (White Candy Melts), or 450 g white chocolate coating
• Sugar sprinkles, various or colored sugar

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Rest time approx. 1 hour 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 45 minutes; Total time approx. 3 hours 15 minutes

The delicious chocolatey favorites from the USA

You will need lollipop sticks and a holder for the sticks, e.g. a block of Styrofoam. Dough: Beat room temperature butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs, then the flour, baking powder, a pinch of salt and vanilla sugar. Then mix in the cocoa. Pour the batter into a greased loaf pan and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 45 minutes. While the cake is cooling, prepare the frosting. Frosting: Mix room temperature butter and cream cheese until creamy. Gradually add the powdered sugar and mix in the vanilla extract. Remove any hard bits from the cake. Crumble the cake into a bowl by rubbing individual pieces together or crumbling them with your hands. Mix the crumbs with the frosting, preferably with your hands. Shape the mixture into balls and place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Once all the mixture has been used, refrigerate the sheet for about an hour. Decoration: Melt the candy melts or chocolate coating in a double boiler. If the candy melts are still too thick after melting, they can easily be thinned with cocoa butter or oil. Dip the lollipop sticks, one at a time, about 2 cm into the melted candy melts, inserting them approximately halfway up the balls. Now dip the balls into the melted candy melts (do not stir them, as this can cause the balls to fall off), remove them, and let them drip off by rotating the cake pop and tapping the hand holding the cake pop. Now the cake pop is ready to decorate. Simply sprinkle sprinkles or colored sugar over the cake pop. It’s best to place a small bowl underneath to catch the remaining sprinkles. Place the sticks in the holder and let them set, ideally in the refrigerator. Good luck 🙂