Marilyn, I was busy making cake balls today so I took a pic

What about when you go to frost them? That's where mine fall apart...

and crumble into the frosting. So I've been doing chocolate (melts) covered oreos instead of cake pops as of late.

Love your pic and instruction - thank you!

 
Oh wow, I just saw (in an antique store) this exact thing yesterday... not a cooling rack, but a

kitchen tool with a handle and metal grid, about 10 x 7 inches. Even the store didn't know what it was, simply labeled "kitchen utensil". I'd buy it for you, but I was out of town when I saw it. If it's there next time I go (spring?), do you want me to get it for you? I think it was $5. Strange I just saw it yesterday!

 
Really? I've never had one fall apart. Maybe you're using too much frosting "glue"?

Do you chill or freeze the balls before coating? I gently heat cream cheese frosting until melts, the dip the balls and put on wire rack for a minute before rolling in coconut.

 
10x7 grid with handle??? I wonder what in the world that was used for!

Did the handle come off or fold? I'm. It sure what I would use it for but I'm intrigued...

 
Oh MARILYN!!! I have always rolled the cake balls in frosting and coconut, etc.

But for the first time I plan to dip them in white and milk chocolates and insert sticks. Needless to say, I went back and re-read your infamous pop poop blog. Did you ever figure out how to coat them without cracking and without pooping?!

 
ah, I know this one. First, the cake balls can't have been in the freezer...

that makes the chocolate coating harden too quickly and the insides expand slower...eventually cracking the coating.

Be sure to either completely coat the ball....or leave the bottom part exposed. The latter allows for expansion.

Dip the stick in chocolate and stick it in the cake ball, then let that set up FIRST. This will help to keep the stick inside the ball where it belongs when you're dipping the entire thing.

 
Gloves? We spit on gloves. If you wear gloves, you can't leave a trail for CSI to follow:

I began shaping the balls and, hey...do you remember that red dye discussion we just had? Well, it turns out that once you start rolling the damp dough in your hands, you end up with red-dyed fingers and red-dyed palms. Red dye migrates across every surface you touch within a 10 foot radius. Keen-eyed anthropologists will be able to track the decline of my sanity if they follow this trail.

~from "Cake Balls versus Elemental Theories of Physics"

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