I've never made or eaten cake pops before now.  So, I don't have a taste comparison.  I made them for the first time over the weekend.  I used left over cake top, crumbled in my food processor and indydebbi's buttercream.  Mixed together, by hand and rolled into balls.  After freezing for about an hour, dipped them in chocolate. My question is this, do they typically taste gross????  I mean these were almost inedible.  Did I just do it wrong???? 

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Christina

define inedible -- i mean how bad would cake icing and chocolate be? was it the texture? are cake pops the same as cake balls?

ATaste is subjective, but yes I think they are gross. However, if I find myself needing to shovel something down my gullet like I was Alicia Silverstones child getting pre chewed food, I would prefer ones made with no binder, or a less sweet binder like a curd or coffee.

i made some with alcohol involved -- red velvet plus fudge cake combined and then rolled them in powdered sugar -- i think those were the only ones i ever made just to not waste all the leftover scraps -- they weren't bad -- i think it gets different with the hard candy shell -- i think kids would like those but not adults as much but obviously i'm not an expert cake popper

the less binder the better, but a lot of people really don't like their texture.  Cake ball = ball;  cake pop = ball on a stick.

Thankfully, these died over a year ago in my market.  You can't give those things away around here!

AOh I could never stand the texture of them personally. I bought one years ago when the got all trendy and I just could not get with it. I just couldn't

.....question is this, do they typically taste gross?? I mean these were almost inedible.  Did I just do it wrong??...

As the others said, NO you didn't do them wrong and YES they are gross (to me, and apparently to others :( 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks they're disgusting!  The only kind that taste good (really good!) imo are made with vanilla cake and peanut butter instead of icing.

I make cake pops using sponge cake, whipped heavy cream and  sweetened condensed milk.

The ones with oreos and cream cheese are ok to good, IMHO. But cake balls/pops…yuck.

I have never liked them really. I never got the hype other than being really easy to eat. I've made them just a few times and don't think they are worth it at all. Kids seem to like them but I don't think it has much to do with the taste. 

The less frosting the better I think.  The gross ones are completely mushy like Mimi said.  I prefer the the balls baked into spheres, Those are great!

Disgusting things.  What a waste of my very expensive chocolate and delicious cake offcuts.  Even those could not make them taste good enough to eat.

I have to tell you, I don't use the frosting at all... I go to the grocery store, buy a slice of cheesecake and use that.  AND IT'S DELICIOUS.  Plus, it rolls much much smoother...

I've never used one of those cake pop bakers, but they'd taste good.  I think frosting makes them toooooooo sweet.

The key to making a good cake pop is that the icing has to be very thin you don't use your regular icing you dilute it, don't put that much and make sure your chocolate is also very thin. Your cake pops should look like cake when you bite it. The only downsize to making them like this is it takes longer to set up, I usually leave mine in the refrigerator all night. But I have had great results, they are very delicious just like my cakes and I get nothing but compliments from adults.

When my cousin did cake pops she broke cake into little pieces instead  of making crumbs.

My sister who eats ANYTHING sweet would not even eat the ones made by a famous cake ball maker, nor would her 8 year old..they are gross!! 

I have the CP-34R flip over cake ball maker by Baby Cakes..it's kinda like a Belgian waffle maker, and it works like a dream!!  Granted, you can only make round ones, but I baked 300 in a morning, put choc on in the afternoon, wrapped and was done in one day...they were just sitting in the muffin cup, not the vertical kind, but they tasted awesome!!

i think i will stop while i'm ahead at having made cake balls once -- there were a couple platters to be taken to area police departments and my son took off to deliver them but never did -- he kept all those freaking cake balls -- he took them back to california on the plane omg so funny -- 

edited to say -- they were a surprise gift not anything the police ordered