Last month, I made these gorgeous cake and Oreo pops for my nephew’s 2nd birthday.

This was my grocery haul in preparation for the pops:

I know you can make everything from scratch, but I prefer the easy way…mostly because I’m lazy.

I baked up the cake the night before so it would be completely cool the next day.

I thought it would be cute to use strawberry cake so the pops would be pink on the inside.

After crumbling the cake, I added strawberry frosting.

And mixed everything together.  Once the frosting was mixed with the crumbled cake, I formed them into balls and put them in the fridge to get cold.  And then I worked on the Oreo pops.

I use Double Stuf Oreos and to get the stick to stay in the Oreo, I dip it in melted chocolate first:

Side note: I used Candy Melts…you can get them at any craft store (like Michaels and Jo-Anns) and they come in so many colors!  Oh and you can melt them in the microwave, no double boiler needed.

And then pushed it into the Oreo:

Once I had a bunch of Oreos on sticks, I put them in the fridge to make the chocolate firm up (and hopefully glue the Oreos to the sticks).  While those were in the fridge, I went back to the cake pops to start covering them in chocolate.

The entire process can take some time, but I just watched movies like S.W.A.T. on Netflix:

And a few hours later, I had a bunch of gorgeous cake and Oreo pops ready to go!

Kai loved them…

And I love the way they look in the middle!

I wanted to create an arrangement of pops so I put a piece of floral foam in a square vase and shoved as many pops as possible into it.

I poured a bag or two of Starburst jelly beans in to cover the foam and I think the result was magical.

HAVE A WONDERFUL FRIDAY!