Gluten Free Cake Pops (what to do with leftovers)

Previously I made Nutella cakes with peanut butter icing (see previous recipe) and I decided to take some to jury service with me but they got a little mushed and were no longer very attractive.

So I decided that the best thing to do was to make them into cake pops.

The good thing about cake pops is that the ingredients aren't very specific. You can use leftovers, buy some cake or make some fresh cakes. It doesn't even matter if the cake is stale.
This time I used 4 leftover cakes which were already iced (400g in total) which make 10 pretty big cake pops. But you can use as much or as little as you like as long as you have enough icing to hold it together. You can use whichever cake you want and if your making them for an occasion you can prepare these well in advance.


Ingredients:

• Cake
• Icing/frosting
• Chocolate for melting

You will also need sticks (I don't always bother unless I'm making them for someone else but it does make them look better) and a deep bowl or cup.

Method:

• Crumble the cake into a large bowl and add in some of the icing.
• Use your hands to try to form balls. It may help to warm the mixture up in the microwave on medium for 10-20 seconds. If you can not easily form balls just add some more of the icing/frosting.
• Don't worry if their not very solid at this point. Place them on baking paper on a tray and make sure you have room in the freezer. 
• Melt a small amount of chocolate to hold the sticks in place. Make a hole on each ball using a stick (stop just before the stick reaches halfway through the ball).
• Get a clean stick and dip the top in the chocolate (the top 1/2 to 1 cm approx should be covered in chocolate). Push the stick into the hole you've made in the ball so the stick is pointing up.
• Repeat for each ball and then put the tray in the freezer for at least 30mins-1 hour.
• Melt chocolate in a deep bowl or cup.

• The cake should be pretty sturdy on the stick buy now so you can dunk each pop in the melted chocolate one by one.
• At this point you can add any decorations you want before the chocolate sets (I didn't have time to decorate them as nicely as I would have liked as my friend turned up etc...but you can make them as impressive as you like).
• Because they've been in the freezer the chocolate sets pretty quickly so you don't have to stand there holding them for long.
• You can stand them in a glass, vase or polystyrene but if it is a hot day you may want to put them in the fridge so they don't melt of their sticks (this happened to me here in London so mine are currently living on a plate in the fridge)