By: Jessie Liang

Cake pops, one of the most liked desserts in America, is my favorite treat for a rainy day. One afternoon, I whipped out left over chocolate sponge cake and white chocolate, suddenly remembering one of my favorite memories spent together with my mother four years ago in America when I was only in first grade.

I decided to make cake pops for my mom on her birthday, July 14th. There was a book I read in a local library on a cake pop making manual, so I ran home, told my mom about this apparently amazing idea and how brilliant it was going to be. And of course, she agreed.

I bought some butter and chocolate cake at Walmart, and returned home to make an absolute birthday treat! First, we cut the butter into 4 small squares as large as a large marble, tossed it in the microwave to heat it up, and poured the golden butter liquid in a gigantic glass bowl. Afterwards came the hands-on activity: crumbling the premade chocolate cake into small chunks and pieces until it looked like the soil in your flowerpot on the counter! Then my mom mixed up the wet and dry ingredients to form a dry dough (but I added some extra Oreos in there to make it sweeter) and rolled it into small balls of sweet cake, but it was not done, yet.

My stomach was already rumbling but we still needed to dip it in frosting and then we were done! My tiny hands found a bottle of rainbow sprinkles and added it to the frosting mixture too, we dipped the dough in the thick and colorful frosting, and we were officially done! Mom said they were the most wonderful birthday gift she ever had, and we enjoyed the precious moment of her birthday night together.