Kitchen

[house cat]

I bought two of these pans that make cone shaped brownie pops. I thought I'd make them cake-like instead of brownies. Now I'm reading the cake pop recipes and they don't even call for a pan.

I'm totally confuddled. Does anyone have a cake pop recipe that will work in these pans?

Thank you.

[homedecor1]

I believe this size would be too heavy to balance on the lollipop stick Although perhaps they would work w Popsicle sticks. Can't really see the size but cake pops are about 1"" in diameter

[house cat]

They show them with sticks on the pan package.

[house cat]

I FEEL SO STUPID! I found a video tutorial and I had no idea what these were about… the cake is already cooked and you crumble it, add frosting and roll them into balls.

Is my face red.

[Deadeye Daisy]

Have been making cake balls and cake pops for us, our kids, grandkids and now the greats for 60 + years. Never needed a pan.

It's what we always did with leftover or stale, frosted cake and/or cupcakes. Just took some already frosted cake or cupcakes, mixed up and formed into balls. Not necessary to add any frosting, as there was always enough on the cake.

Sometimes, when we were kids, we'd stoop at a local bakery on the way home from school. They would give us cakes or cupcakes that they were about to toss as they were past the selling stage.

Did a similar thing with bread. Made bread balls - deep fried or used for breadball fights.

[house cat]

That's a great idea, Daisy.. except I don't know what a "leftover cupcake" is. We never had those at my house.

[Deadeye Daisy]

That's why you make sure all your kids go to college as soon as they graduate high school, and try not to have 'yo-yos'. Worked for us. Actually, what works better is moving out of state while they're gone. (We actually only did that once . While living in TX, oldest was working in North Texas, and he didn't bother to let us know where. Wasn't unusual for him to be working on some oil rig, and to not contact us for awhile. From the day I accepted a new job in CA to the day we arrived in CA took less than 3 weeks. Lived in corporate housing for the next three months. Took him 6 weeks to track us down).

Have a friend who worked for the same company - her and her DH moved from Dallas to Harlingen while their two were away at college.

By not having them live at home, DH and I have been quite free for the last 30+ years to hop on a plane and visit whenever or wherever we want. Much easier for us to visit them, as we've always had plenty of free time off work to travel. During school vacations, we flew various grands in to stay with us.

One thing most people forget - your spouse is your PRIME concern, not your kids. Your spouse will always be around with you. Your kids will go away to school, meet someone, marry, get a job across the country or whatever. We have DD, four grands and 5 greats living 550 miles away. Oldest works and lives 1100 miles away. Middle and 2 grands are 3000 miles away. One grand going to West Point next fall, one going to U of Hawaii.

Leftover cake was never a problem, as none of us really had a 'cake' sweet tooth. I have a dark chocolate and salty preference. DH rarely ate cake. Our kids weren't big sweet eaters. Oldest has been a lacto-ove vegetarian most of his life. Middle could live on ANY salty snack, and makes his own beer and wine. DD has a more liberal set of likes; Trader Joe's cheese department is her forte. Me? At TJs, give me anything on the shelves over the frozen food.

[peachesncream]

There is a discussion forum on the Wilton website, and one of the boards is just about cake pops. There are other boards, too, about baking equipment, etc. I've asked questions about baking on those boards and people are very helpful. They might know what to do with that pan.

Here is a link.

http://www.wilton.com/forums/categories.cfm?catid=16&zb=8805299

I have only made the cake pops where you mix cake with icing and roll them in balls, then dip in chocolate.

Hope you get some good ideas for the pan!

[house cat]

Thanks, peaches. That sounds like a good idea.