Red Velvet Cake Pops (insert mad laughter here)

This post should be titled the cute little cake pops that weren't, or "cake flops" instead of pops.

I have this list going of recipes to make from the blogs I follow. 

Stuff that sounds easy and yummy with a dose of cute.  So when Nicole over at Thrifty Decorating put up a tutorial on her blog saying she's not a baker at ALL and could successfully make these,  I thought 'WELL then I should be able to do those noooooo problem'.

Nicole is a better woman than I.

The Don't Do List:

1.  Do not pick Duncan Hines Red Velvet cake mix.

Mr. Hines takes the "red" part very seriously.

It starts out a nice dry chocolate color.
It morphs when you add the wet ingredients just like those cute furry gremlins from that movie.

There is more red food dye in that stuff than there is water in the ocean. 

2.  Do not think you are being fun and use a rotary beater for beating cake mix like they did in the olden days.

If you lift it out of the batter while turning the crank, it will still splatter.

I'm the one that did that, not my 4 year old helper.

He followed my directions to keep the beaters down in the bowl.  I should have too.

Child who follows directions, unlike adult

3.  Don't use a white towel to clean up the mishap from step #2.

It will look like you gut a deer on your counter and smear all over.

Notice both kids coincidentally happened to have the right color on for today's event, the counter however was is white.

Cries if you try to take away the spoon.

4.  IF you do choose the Red Velvet by Duncan Hines, don't let kids lick any part of the utensils.

My helper and his sister now look like wild wolves after they feast on a wildebeest.  Red Velvet stains.

AHHH, OOOOUUUUCH

Looks like he got his tongue and lips caught.

It is an optical illusion, that's just how red that stupid cake mix is.

Next Halloween just buy Red Velvet cake mix for your little vampire.

5.  Don't answer the phone and also try to make mac n cheese while you let little ones nosh on the red velvet utensils.

It's that much harder to clean off of them if it sits for any length of time.

I repeat - Red Velvet stains.

Eventually you will end up with a cooked cake and you mix the frosting with the broken up and cooled cake. 

Starting to sound promising huh?  Mush and mix it, looks perfect just like it's suppose too. 

Roll into balls.

 6.  Do not get impatient rolling the cake into balls and make them different sizes just because the lovely red velvet cake is turning your lily white hands the same color as the mouths of the wild wolves.

I'm gonna write "Be Mine" on my hands and give them to Brawn for Valentines Day. 

Or maybe I'll just give a finger to Duncan Hines.

Melt just a bit of the chocolate wafers and stick your sticks in the cake pops. 

This part went according to plan and gets an A+ and a large picture.

6.  Do not think you are smarter than Nicole and melt your chips in the microwave instead of a double boiler.

Just when you start to believe you may be able to salvage this little recipe, it will pass the point of no return... and no chocolate on your cake pops.

Bowl of hard undipable chocolate.

That's it - I'm done.  The end.

And updipable is not a word.

I'd rather paint furniture, shovel snow, or give birth to triplets, than ever make cake pops again. 

The cute sprinkles I have to go on them... put away.

Brawn being the sweetheart he is, decided he'd just frost his own with the chocolate and eat it.  I tried to tell him it wasn't necessary that the frosting was already in the balls and he could eat 'em just like that. 

I don't think he got what I meant, and he wanted to make me feel better by at least eating one.  I mean cake pops are only tasty if they are cute right?

The wild beasts were sent off with red rings around their lips.  As long as I don't have to explain what blood hungry little animals they were, no harm done.

Linking this up to CountryMommaCooks

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