How about celebrating with cake pops decorated with emojis?
I used a baking kit that has tools for making emoji faces on the finished cake pops. It is an example of the kits you could get through a subscription program called Kidstir. I was sent a free Kidstir Chocolate Cake Pops Emoji themed baking kit to test and review via the Amazon Vine program. Today's feature article on The Chocolate Cult is a bonus review for the brands; no other form of compensation was received for my sharing my experiences with the kit. Note: if you click on any of the links, I am an Amazon Associate and will get a tiny commission if you buy this product.
The resulting cake pops were quite tasty and even though as you'll read soon there was a lot of frustration, I think we did an good job decorating.
Let me list the positives and the negatives we discovered using this kit.
Positive: Includes every dry ingredient you will need to make the cake pops, the coating, and the decorating chocolate.
Negative: You will need to add the wet ingredients.
Positive: The amount of ingredients is correct so there isn't much food waste. (Great for the environment and won't make you feel like you are wasting money either.)
Positive: The included magazine about cake pops, Full Guide to Cake Pops, contains a lot of useful general information. (Read it first.)
Negative: The directions lack steps ranging from the fact that you want the butter to be at room temperature and how to do that to your needing to cut open the chocolate decorating bottle's cap. (This was so frustrating that at one point my co-tester got upset and walked away for awhile until I could coax him back. In the photo below note that the cap has no hole and if you take off the cap, you have nothing narrow to draw the emojis with.)
Mixed: It comes with a disposable cake pop holder, but it is not large enough to give each cake pop room to cool without sticking to other cake pops. (As you can see in the photo below, we resorted to a styrofoam block to help hold some.)
Mixed: It comes with cake pop sticks, but only 15 of them even though when you follow the directions and use the correct amount of cake-frosting you get 20 cake pops. (At least I had extra cake pop sticks on hand, but a cooking or baking kid needs to include everything you need unless otherwise noted before you buy it.)
If you have more patience for this kit than I did and you still want to check it out, please do so here or click on the image below. Remember I do get a tiny commission if you buy something, but as you can see, that fact doesn't make praise any product I am sent to test and write about here on The Chocolate Cult.
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