My Dad's birthday was yesterday and we had a party to celebrate. He LOVES zombies. I wanted to make him something I thought he would like and Zombie Cake Pops were born. I looked around to get some ideas, but there isn't a lot out there. I was able to practice before making them for the actual party and it's a good thing I did. I learned a few things:
1) To make cake more dense so they'll stay on the stick better, replace the water with milk and add one egg to your boxed cake mix.
2) If the chocolate is too thick you can add a little bit of vegetable oil to help with the consistency and it won't effect the end product.
3) I need a better black edible pen.
4) If traveling with cake pops make sure to keep them cold somehow. They DO NOT travel well. By the time I got to my dad's house (maybe 30 mins away) they had started to melt even with the AC going full blast.
All in all a fun project. I'm debating not using the metal pan next time and going back to using the Bakerella cake pop method where you roll the balls yourself. The pan was wonderful and saved a lot of work, but without the frosting in the middle, they just don't taste as good.
P.S. I didn't know this, but yellow cake and red velvet cake from the box require very different times. The yellow cake mix cooked for the suggested 23 minutes, but the red velvet cake only required about 14 minutes. Learned some lessons the hard way on this project.
