The CakePop is dead - long live the MallowPop!

We've all made cake pops - good grief - what a bore!

For starters, who really wants a mouthful of dry cake, mixed with sickly sweet buttercream?  Then there's the fact that they take soooo long to make, fall off if you make them too big, or include too much buttercream... No, no.  The cakepop is dead.

So, what's the alternative?  Clearly you're on the MallowPop site, so the answer must be a MallowPop - yay!

For starters:

• the basic varieties are much easier to make
• they actually last for much longer than cake pops, which means you can make them much further in advance - a real boon for those of us baking for cake sales, parties etc
• anything you can do to a cakepop, you can do to a mallowpop
• mallowpops can be made gluten-free - a huge boon if you're creating for the masses
• they also allow you a huge amount of scope in terms of decoration, flavouring etc. 
• you can make your own marshmallows if you really want to up the flavourings and complexity 

I would almost go on to say that they offer the same customisation scope as macaron - and potentially far more flavour impact variations than cake...

But let's not get ahead of ourselves - let's start with the basic idea.  Anyone can take a packet of marshmallows, and cover them in chocolate - even using candy melts if you have to...  At this level it's a great thing for kids to get involved with too, and nowhere nearly as traumatic as cake pops.

So lets begin....