Basketball cake pops would be a fun addition to any basketball-themed party and they'd make cute treats for your child's basketball team.
Ingredients
Cake, crumbled
Frosting, to taste
Orange Wilton candy melts
Chocolate chips or black icing
Lollipop sticks
Instructions
Once your cake has cooled, crumble it into pea-sized or smaller pieces.
Mix in the frosting a spoonful or two at a time, adding just enough so that when rolled the cake mixture stays in balls without crumbling apart.
Roll the dough into balls.
Place them on a wax paper-lined cookie sheet.
Refrigerate them for 15-30 minutes.
Melt a small portion of the orange Wilton candy melts and dip the ends of each lollipop stick into the chocolate.
Immediately insert a chocolate-dipped lollipop stick into each cake ball so that it is inserted about half way through the cake ball.
Place the cake pops back onto the waxed paper or stand them up in a glass and freeze them for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
Melt the remaining orange Wilton candy melts in a deep glass or bowl.
Working with one cake pop at a time, dunk it in the chocolate and swirl it around until the chocolate covers the cake pop up past the point where the chocolate-dipped stick is inserted into the cake.
Swirl it and tap off any excess chocolate.
Place it in a short glass or in styrofoam with holes poked in it to allow the chocolate to harden.
Melt the chocolate in a double-boiler.
Transfer the melted chocolate to a cake decorating bag fitted with a small, round tip.
Once the orange chocolate on the basketballs has hardened, pipe the basketball marks on each basketball cake pop using the melted chocolate or black icing.
Place them in a short glass or in styrofoam with holes poked in it to allow them to dry completely.
If using cream cheese frosting, refrigerate the cake pops if not consumed immediately.
Recipe by Itsy Bitsy Foodies at http://itsybitsyfoodies.com/basketball-cake-pops/