Recipe: Pooltime Cake Pops

Sweeten your summer. This cake pop recipe uses #Pooltime, our Belgian-inspired Wheat Ale brewed with Michigan cherry juice

Ingredients

• Super Moist Cherry Chip Cake Mix, 15.25 oz Box (chocolate would be tasty too!)
• Instant Vanilla Pudding & Pie Filling Mix, 2.68 oz
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 3/4 cup milk
• 4oz Bell’s Pooltime Ale, drink the remainder!
• 1/4 cup Canola oil
• 3 large eggs
• 1/3 cup vanilla frosting
• Maraschino Red Cherries, 16 oz
• 18-22 ounces melted and tempered white morsels/chips
• Lollipop sticks (could be located in the party supplies section)

Steps

• Preheat oven to 350 F
• Spray a 13X9 inch cake pan with nonstick spray.
• Mix cake mix, pudding mix, Pooltime, sour cream, milk, oil, and eggs in a large mixing bowl. Use an electric beater on low for 30 seconds to combine and for two minutes on medium to mix.
• Pour mixture into pan and bake for 28-32 minutes.
• Remove cake and allow to cool. Crumble cake into a clean bowl
• Soak cherries in Pooltime
• Add vanilla frosting to combine crumbles so that you can scoop the mixture. Use a little more Pooltime if needed to moisten.
• Use a tablespoon and scoop mixture, take one cherry and wrap mixture around cherry. Insert lollipop stick into cherry and place pop down on a tray with parchment paper. Repeat until all mixture used.
• Refrigerate pops for 2 hours until firm.
• Melt morsels over a double saucepan until smooth.
• Dip each pop into warm mixture, coat and place back on parchment paper. Sprinkle with red sugar for decoration.
• Dip all pops, decorate and let the pops sit until the chocolate hardens.
• Serve with more Bell’s Pooltime Ale.

Here are some tips:

• You can use a chocolate cake as well, for a nice cherry/chocolate combo
• When adding the melted chocolate, use a spoon to dunk in and out of the bowl
• Use small maraschino cherries if you can

You should also try our recipe for Pooltime Cherry Glazed Ribs.