Making Cake Balls

Like trendy cupcake and frozen yogurt shops, cake balls are one of the recent food fads that people have gotten all excited about. One day as my roomate Michelle and I were procrastinating we came across a cookbook online for cake pops. For those of you who aren't as up to date on your food trends, cake pops are simply cake balls on a stick. Now, this cookbook made making cake into works of art look like, (no pun intended) a piece of cake. Thus, Michelle and I decided to embark on this adventure to make them for the FYS potluck lunch. The recipe book had pirate pops, yes cake pops that looked like pirates, that we decided we had to make. Problem number 1 came when we discovered there isn't a single stick to be bought in the city of Georgetown. We decided to not get to frustrated about, we'd just make cake balls... who needs a dumb stick anyway? For our cake balls we made a 13 x 9 chocolate sheet cake and let it cool completely. Then, we crumbled the cake into a bowl and added a little more than half of a container of frosting. We formed the mixture into little spheres and set them in the freezer to harden for about 20 minutes. Then it was time to dip them into the melting white chocolate candy coating (or whatever that stuff is made of). This was not pretty. I don't know how the chick in the book made those things look so freaking perfect, but ours did not. And then the food markers we got... those don't work, complete rip off. So, we got creative and went for a "rustic" look. They weren't the most beautiful, but they were tasty!