STARBUCKS CAKE POPS ARE A SCAM

P.S. – I know this column doesn’t really count as me making something considering it was straight from a box, but the artistry I created was better than nothing.

Last week, I was out with my friends, and I saw a box of cake pop mix. If you know me, I love cake pops. Personally, I would pay the pricey four dollars for each one of them because they’re so good. But when I saw that mix, I knew I needed to get it to really decide whether or not I should stop wasting my money (and to add to the fun of it, they were ghost cake pops from Target).

The instructions were pretty easy. I didn’t do anything special this time, so I just followed the instructions on the back of the box. Usually when you make cake pops, they don’t go in the oven. They just go in the freezer until they’re cold enough that you can put the chocolate on, but these ones did. They went in the oven for 14 minutes. That part was pretty easy, but the icing/chocolate, or whatever the official title is, was not.

I’ve made cake pops multiple times before from scratch, and I’ve only ever struggled with the icing. I don’t know what’s so hard about it, but it’s always either too thick, starts cracking, uneven, or basically anything that could ever be wrong. It was no different this time. In this batch of cake pops I made, there were multiple incidents of each of the above. I thought that was bad enough, but there was also black icing that I had to draw ghost faces with.

I knew this was going to be a mess, so I just accepted my fate and did a drizzle of it instead of a face, but man, they looked ugly either way.

Though they weren’t very appealing to the eye, they tasted pretty similar to Starbucks. The whole box was for nine dollars, (basically two Starbucks cake pops) and made six or seven. So the verdict is, unless you’re a billionaire, I would opt to buy the cake pop mix instead.