Guinness Cake Pops

Guinness cake pops are the ideal dessert for St. Patrick's day, but of course they'll be great for any occasion, Irish or otherwise.

Prep Time1 30

Cook Time55

Course: Dessert

Servings: 20

Preheat oven to 400°.
Add Guinness into a sauce pan, and reduce for about 10 minutes. Add the butter. When the butter has melted into the Guinness, and heat until the butter is melted.
In one mixing bowl, whisk together the sour cream, vanilla and egg. Add the Guinness and butter mixture and whisk together. These are your wet ingredients.
In another mixing bowl, add flour, unsweetened cocoa, sugar, and baking soda and mix together. These are your dry ingredients. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and use a hand mixer to blender to combine.
Pour the batter into a buttered or greased 9-inch spring form lined with parchment paper. Bake for about 45 minutes to 1 hour until you can insert a toothpick and withdraw it with no batter on it.

Use a hand mixer or blender to cream the softened butter. Slowly add the other ingredients to combine thoroughly. Add more milk, a small bit at a time, if needed to moisten the icing.

Melt the white chocolate chips according to the instructions. One way is to melt them for 30-second increments in the microwave and stir. You can add a very small amount of Crisco to thin the white chocolate coating.

Crumble the Guinness cake into a large bowl. Add about ½ cup of icing and mix into the crumbs. Continue to add icing and mix until the crumbs are just coated and the mixture is slightly like wet sand. Be careful not to add too much icing. The amount of icing this recipe makes should be about right.
Roll balls of the mixture of about 2 tablespoons. The exact size doesn't matter, but aim to make the balls the same size. Place the balls on a baking pan and chill for at least 10 minutes. Then, roll the balls once more to make them more round.
With freshly melted white chocolate, dip one end of the lollipop stick in to coat the end, then stick into the balls about halfway. Repeat for each ball.
Reheat the white chocolate if it has begun to harden. Then dip each ball into it and place upright in a Styrofoam or cardboard. Allow to dry. Keep the Guinness Cake Ball chill until you're ready to serve, up to four days. (Do not freeze them!)
Note: You can add food coloring to the white chocolate coating or decorate your cake pops with sprinkles or edible glitter. You could also use drizzles of melted chocolate in another color as decoration.