Chef's the name, birthday is the game

It seems this summer is including daytrips and food. The calendar is filled with places to go and things to make thanks to the three aspiring chefs in the house (A, K and C that is). Yesterday though, well with the sweltering temps (it got to 110 I believe) we didn't make it very far for long. Instead we attempted to fry an egg. Though it didn't work it was fun to just plain try. I guess I will have to google some tips on that one.

This week it was Aunt K's bday so I suggested we make a treat for her too. My first suggestions was the cheesecake pops A has been wanting to make but that was overruled by niece. She seemed unsure if she liked cheesecake and then cake pops were born.

As with all cooking in my house there is not an exact bone in my body with measuring items. I simply do not enjoy cooking much so I suppose that is my subconscious way of bucking the system. Anyway, I once again made the cake recipe posted earlier reducing the sugar even more (still not enough). I recommend maybe a half cup really. Then we baked the cake like normal but upon removal from the oven we stirred about 1/3 of an icing container into the cake and rolled small balls. We then stuck the stick in them to cool. Once cool (per K's idea) we melted white chocolate and covered the balls helping "glue" the sticks in. This part was a bit tricky for K but she picked it up nicely. Then she arranged 14 of the best looking ones to decorate with the letters Happy Birthday. Sadly I failed her by realizing that there wasn't much left of the writing icing. We did what we could and it turned out just fine I think.

All the kids sampled the cake pops and even ate more than one. I think if I would have reduced the sugar to what I suggested above I may have done the same. Otherwise the one pop I tried was plenty for me. Well, that and the one on one time with K creating this dish is pretty priceless too.
To make it a 4th of July treat you could roll in red, white and blue melts too. Stay tuned for more of that fun this week!