With plenty of white stuff all over the Frozen Tundra, my sweet tooth not looking like it’s taking a winter break and Christmas all but around the corner, I though a rerun of the snow pop post was in order! Especially since I’m spending every ounce of daylight today photographing Atlanta folk and won’t be able to attend to my blog at all. Or to my children, but all five of them have a very fun day ahead with Daddy!
I plan to make red and green snow pops for Christmas this year and my husband really wants to make some for Big Mac’s birthday in lieu of a cake. Want to whip some up yourself? Here’s how!
As many of you faithful readers know, I am not much of a baker. But I am good at other things. Like crafting cliffhangers for my blog, decorating with turquoise and making children. But I digress. I’m not a baker. This is the point.
I do, however, love to look at baked goodies (and eat them, of course). When my dear friend Alyssa had us all over recently, and she was making adorable treats that she discovered here, I was beyond inspired.
So, I adapted her recipe and have spent the last few days perfecting…snow pops.
Fun. Adorable. Delicious. (Relatively) Easy. Eye Candy. Make Them. Now.
Here’s how I made mine:
First, I baked a chocolate cake, following the directions on the box (No, I am not advertising for anyone in this post. These are just the things I bought at Walmart to make my snow pops!).
After I baked it, I hunked up the cake and chopped the pieces in my food processor until the cake looked like this:
I ate a little bit of it. Just to make sure it was okay to eat and wasn’t a bad nut like Veruca Salt on Willy Wonka. It wasn’t.
Then, I made up a batch of cream cheese frosting. Remember when I posted that recipe here? In case you don’t, here it is again. Combine:
8 oz. package cream cheese, softened
6 T. butter, softened
1 t. vanilla
1T. cream (or milk)
3 cups powdered sugar
I added the cream cheese frosting, a half cup at a time, to the cake crumbles (until all the cake was moistened with the frosting and was moldable like dough), combining well with a spatula. But of course you can use a spoon. Or your bare hands. A little more than a cup of frosting worked well for me.
Actually, I added a bit too much, so to offset the frosting heavy mixture, I added about a half cup of rolled oats. But hopefully you won’t do that and won’t need to add the oats. Unless you want to, of course. I rather like how mine turned out with them.
I formed the cake mixture into balls, put them on a plate and refrigerated them.
While they were chilling, I opened five bags of white chocolate melt-a-ways. Regular chocolate and candy melts would also work fine.
My husband was cooking venison in the kitchen and he helped me unwrap the individually wrapped white chocolates.
They looked like slabs of butter when they were unwrapped. Small Fry thought they were “cheeses.” I melted mugs full of the chocolates on medium power in the microwave. Of course you could use a double boiler. I don’t have one. Remember? I don’t bake.
After they were melted and I stirred them up, I added a few drops of food coloring to each mug.
Turquoise and raspberry, of course. (Edited in 2010 to add: Last year, these were a sweet hint about the expectant news we were about to announce. Remember?)
Small Fry thought it was hummus and she “wanted some.” I obliged and let all the kids have some apples wedges and a small bowl of the melted delight to dip them into. They were in heaven and left me alone to work on the snow pops for at least 15 more minutes.
Next, I stuck long, wooden dowels into the chilled balls. One by one, I dipped them into the melted candy.
Rotate.
Rotate.
Then, I put sprinkles all over the snow pops quickly before the candy started to harden. Adorable!
The clean up would have to wait until later, for I had snow pop arranging to do!
And what better place to photograph snow pops…
…than in the snow!
Go ahead and make some…and enjoy! They are actually quite tasty and go over well with anyone under age 20. And also with the over 20 crowd.
I will be sure to make theese very soon! YUM YUM!!
I stumbled upon your website (and this particular entry) in a very roundabout way, but am I ever glad that I did! I made my own little version of these snow pops using red velvet cake and vanilla almond bark for a cookie exchange at work. They turned out adorable! Thanks for sharing!
http://jenn-and-kellen.blogspot.com/2010/12/sugar-spice-and-everything-nice.html
Are you being sneaky?
Last time you posted blue and pink snow pops it was a hidden message that you were expecting. De ja vu here?
I made these last year with STRAWBERRY cake and they were AMAZING!! I decided these will be the gifts we give our school teachers this year (in cute packaging of course)!! I was a junkie with the snow pops! Yum!
What perfect timing! Next month 3 of my co-workers and I will all celebrate our birthdays within a few days of each other and I’ve been thinking of whipping up a batch of these to bring in to work. Now I won’t have to search for the recipie!
Now all I have to do is decide how to make them…red and green for Christmas? Dark chocolate with Christmas-y sprinkles? White ones decorated like snowman faces? Hmmmmm. Maybe a few of each!
I love Bakerella’s site. She’s so creative. My fav way to make “cake pops” is to make a german chocolate cake, mix in a can of the coconut/pecan frosting (the only time I use the canned stuff is with cake pops). Dip the cooled balls in melted chocolate chips and then roll them through some coconut and pecans mixed together. Good stuff. For those who’ve had your “pops” slide down the stick, you may be pushing the stick too far into the ball. Try pushing it just a little less than half way into the ball to see if that helps.
I remember these and sad that I never made them. They look so delish! If you make them in red and green will you post photos of them?
Oooh, I love these! Bakerella makes them too- you should check her out. She has lots of great ideas and is AMAZING!
Thanx so much for sharing this here, since I have a dozen little girls coming for Holiday baking next week and these will be perfect. We also buy the disposable baking tins in Christmas tree style for each family to decorate and take home (they have them at a dollar store near us and they even have a lid)
(This is our new blog btw!)
I have tried making these a couple of times, but both times I had issues with the candy melts…once they were melted, and I dipped the cake rolls into them, they all fell to the bottom of the stick because they were so heavy, and I couldn’t get the candy melts to stay melted for very long. What is your trick, if you don’t mind my asking? The last time I made them, I made the cake balls smaller. My baby girl’s 2nd birthday is in a couple weeks and I think these would be a hit with the little kids.
Anybody know how many of these you get in one batch? I was thinking of making them for my daughter’s cookie exchange.
It depends on how big you make the cake balls. When I have made them, I usually have at least 15.
So…are you re-telling us more than just how to make snow pops? Is there another McKid on the way???
Jennifer, Sam has a family!! DID YOU SEE IT?? HE HAS A FAMILY!! YEAH!!!!! Go to reecesrainbow.org click on waiting children and on the my family found me page at the very top, there he is!! Thank you for raising money for this sweet boy! Thank you God for Sam’s family!
Love wins,
Renee Tam
5cajuns.blogspot.com
What great news!! Hooray!
yeah! thats great news!!
Fantastic!
I just came over to say the same thing. Sam isn’t an orphan anymore!
I made these last year when you posted them. Mine weren’t as pretty but they were definitely yummy! I just *may* have to make more this winter! My kids loved them!
Ohhhh….I love Bakerella! She has a whole book now on how to make these!
These look amazing and soooo yummy! Thank you! We had our first snow this morning, and I took some snowflake photos: http://livewithflair.blogspot.com/2010/11/snowflake-photography.html
love the pics!
I actually just looked up this recipe the other day. I wanted to have the idea ready for Christmas time.
So Cute..I can’t wait to make them.
~Kirs
http://ninasmomma.blogspot.com/
I think I’m gonna try this, but leave the chocolate white then dip them in coconut for the actual snowball look.
awwww… yummy.. I think I will try my hand at this.. since I don’t bake either… thanks bunches
I think I will try these this year! They are just so cute! Thanks for sharing!
Your’s look so much better than mine did when I made them. I made my balls too big and the weight caused them to slide off the sticks! They were still tasty.
I bought a sheet of foam board at a craft store to stick the pops in while they dried and I can re-use it the next attempt. I want to make the Hello Kitty ones.
so addicting, you eat 10 because they are so small. I may have to makes some of these today for church
Pretty sure they’re cuter than the first time!