Eat on special occasions!
What you need:
- 230g store bought sponge cake
- 1 lime
- 1/2 cup shredded coconut
- 2 cups white chocolate melts (you can use milk chocolate too)
- 12 wooden paddle pop sticks
- Pink food colouring, to tint
- Sprinkles and pink and silver cachous, to decorate
What to do:
- Tear cake into tiny pieces into a large bowl. Finely grate the zest of the lime onto the cake. Add coconut and stir to combine.
- Melt 1/2 cup white chocolate melts in a microwave safe bowl in the microwave on low power for 30 seconds at a time, stirring and repeating until melted. Stir into cake mixture. Then use your hands to mix together.
- Roll tablespoons of mixture into small bite size balls, using your hands, and squeeze the mixture tightly together. Insert a paddle pop stick into each of the balls.
- Place remaining chocolate into a large microwave safe bowl and repeat the chocolate melting process as at step 2. Add a few drops of colouring to tint chocolate pale pink, or leave it white.
- Dip one ball at a time into chocolate to coat completely. Immediately sprinkle with decorations. Place onto a baking paper lined tray. Repeat with remaining balls. Set aside for 30 minutes to allow chocolate to set. If it's a hot day, place them in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to set the chocolate hard.
- Serve in vases or on platters.
TIP: You don't just have to use sprinkles or cachous to decorate your cake pops - try desiccated coconut, nuts or even different types of lollies. Yum!