About 10 years ago, this recipe for shortbread cookies with white chocolate frosting appeared in Martha Stewart Living magazine. I have been making it ever since. They are SO YUMMY!
Martha says to dip the cooled cookies into the melted white chocolate to frost them. I prefer to slather it on with a knife. I like the resulting texture.
But the best part is coming up with the fun sayings to pipe on the cookies.
I also tried making cake pops for the second time. Cake Pops were made famous by Bakerella, and her website will tell you all you need to know about making your own. In a nutshell, you bake a cake, crumble it in a bowl, mix in a can of frosting, form into balls, add the stick, dip in chocolate, embellish. Let me just tell you that devil's food cake + chocolate frosting + melted chocolate coating = fabulous.
The first time I tried to make these, though, was a complete fiasco. The pops would just crumble and fall off the sticks. This time I added almost the whole can of frosting to the crumbled cake (the recipe says to use 3/4 of a can). Plus I dipped the stick in chocolate before inserting it into the pop to help it stay better. And I thinned the dipping chocolate with shortening.
These were for the Super Bowl so I made them in the shape of footballs. I tried to melt white chocolate to make the laces, but it wasn't cooperating, so I used that writing icing that comes in tubes at the grocery store.
They turned out kind of lumpy, but at least they stayed on the sticks and you could tell they were supposed to be footballs. I'll keep trying!
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