Chocolate Cake Pops

I recently made a cake for a friend and froze the trimmings for use at a later date. We were expecting friends over one evening so I thought I'd have a go at cake pops as something to offer them.

First I cut the frozen trimmings into cubes and put on cocktail sticks.

Then I dipped them into chocolate melted with butter.

As they cooled I dipped some into hundreds and thousands and put them in foil covered polystyrene to display.

The others I dusted with edible lustre powder when they had fully set and cooled.

I was surprised how long the choclate took to set before I could set them down and then the chocolate suddenly thickened so much I had to re-melt it to use on the rest. It was also easier when to the cake was fully frozen.