Pepper Pops (Cake pops for Grownups)
Tidbits...I bought a dark chocolate bar laced with hot red pepper. The two tastes seemed mismatched but my curiosity made me try it. The taste was "Wow". First the chocolate melts in your mouth and moments after comes a hot peppery explosion. I used the chocolate in these cake pops. The result is not exactly like the chocolate bar, but interesting nonetheless.
Ingredients
- Dipping Sauce
- Dark Chocolate pepperoncino bars - 3 bars for 20 pops
- Red pepper corns - 2 tsp.
- Chocolate pepper sprinkles - 2 tsp.
Instructions
- Bake cake and let cool completely. Each whole cake makes about 40 balls.
- Crumble cake or 1/2 cake and freeze the rest for future use.
- For each 1/2 cake moisten with 3 tablespoons of one of the following, mixed with 2 Tbl. powdered sugar .
- Mascarpone, cream cheese, nutella, frosting, jam or liqueurs.
- Roll into balls and refrigerate for minimum of 1 hour.
- Dip stick or plastic party fork into melted chocolate then insert in cake ball. Dip in chocolate and let excess drip back into melted chocolate. Then dip in sprinkle toppings.
- Refrigerate until chocolate hardens.
- Unused melted chocolate can be covered and refrigerated for later use, or frozen and reheated.
