Apple Spiced Cake Pops

Well this is the first time I am blogging about something that was a little bit of a failure. The recipe is absolutely delicious, but it didn't work as a cake pop. I should have dipped it in white chocolate but I was too adventurous and thought it would work with a icing sugar frosting. Again it was wonderful tasting, just very hard to actually come out right. If I ever do it again I think I will just pour a small dollop of icing on top and serving it like a truffle.

Apple Spiced Cake Pops

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 teaspoon ground allspice

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup butter, softened

2 cups white sugar

4 eggs

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 tablespoon warm water

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 apples - peeled, cored and chopped

3 c. icing sugar

1 tsp vanilla

3 Tbsp milk

Preheat oven to 175 C (350 F). Butter a 10 inch tube pan. Whisk together flour, spices, and salt. Set aside.

Cream together butter or margarine and sugar. 

 Mix in eggs and vanilla. Stir together soda and 1 tablespoon warm water, and mix into the sugar mixture. 




 


Stir in flour mixture and apples until well blended. 

Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake for approximately 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool in pan. 

Mix up the icing sugar, vanilla and the milk 1 Tbsp at a time until the icing is pours slowly off the spoon.

Once cool, put the cake into your food processor and pulse until cake is crumbled.

 

Scoop 1/2 c. of your icing sugar into the crumbs and mix well. Roll into 1-inch balls and place on a parchment paper lined baking tray. Allow to cool in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Dip your lollipop stick into the icing sugar and then carefully press half way into each ball. Allow the icing sugar to harden for about an hour, this is where things started going wrong for me. The icing sugar doesn't harden enough to really hold it together in order for you to do the dipping. But if you give it at least an hour you can get some of them to work like I did.

Holding the cake pop over the icing take a spoon and carefully cover your cake pop. Allowing the excess to drip off. Holding it over the icing to allow it to harden slightly will help keep the icing from just slipping off of the cake pop when you set it down. Allow to sit for at least 30 minutes before serving.