I needed to take a dessert to a funeral luncheon yesterday. In my penny pinching I didn’t want to go out an buy a whole bunch of extra ingredients. The TODAY show had mini cupcakes on the other day and I thought I would google mini cup cakes and see what popped up. Some how I found Bakerella. She makes lots and lots of yummy goodies that look too good to eat. The cupcake pop looked like fun so I gave it a try. When I went searching for this link for this post I was perusing through her site. It is awesome!!! So much inspiration and instructions. Turns out she was on the Martha Stewart show at some point. Good for her and her blog.
Here is my interpretation of her instructions. I had my daughters birthday cake left over from the day before. It was cake and icing…so I just pureed it up and away we went! No need to bake another cake and ad a can of icing… it was already done! Penny pinching and it kept me from eating the rest of the birthday cake myself! Wooot!
This is what a 2 year olds birthday cake looks like once it meets up with a food processor. This was the consistency of extra soft play dough.
Bakerella had hand rolled her cake mixture into balls. I found the small Pampered Chef scoop worked out well for me. In the next step you are rolling them into a cylinder and stuffing them in a cuter anyway. (this step not pictured but go to the bakerella blog to see it.) One less rolling step this way!
Here are the mini cup cakes with their chocolate coating on. I have them flipped upside down.
Here they are all done. I did use a toothpick instead of a lollipop stick. I didn’t have any so I improvised. 
I have them stuck in a piece of floral foam covered in foil. I have the foam stuck to the tray with corn syrup. Just a smear keeps the block from sliding on the tray.
So there you go. How I recycled my daughters birthday cake, kept from eating the cake myself and pinched some pennies in a dessert donation. It was good all around.
