Topic: Cake Pops
General Purpose: To demonstrate
Specific Purpose: To demonstrate to my audience how to make a delicious and simple cake pop.
Thesis: I will be demonstrating how to make a
I. Introduction:
A. Attention Getter: In 2012 Starbucks made over $13.29 billion dollars. With that amount of money you could buy eight billion, eight hundred and sixty million of their cake pops. Though that seems like enough cake pops to satisfy anyones appitite I highly doubt that most of us have thirteen billion dollars to spend. B. Credibility: According to newspressnow.com, last updated May 8th 2012 “The start of the cake-pop frenzy has been attributed to a Martha Stewart show in 2008. The cake pops soon achieved celebrity status, pushed even higher by Starbucks jumping on the cake-pop bandwagon when it added them to its new line of Starbucks petites.
C. Significance: As college students we spend enough money on coffee as it is..
D. Thesis: In order to save a few extra dollars, I will be demonstrating how to make a cake pop as good as any starbucks treat.
E. Preview: Today I will show you the process in three simple steps, Crumbling the cake, rolling out the dough, and decorating the actual pop.
Transition: We’ve all made a cake before, but its regularly overlooked how simple it is to make it portable.
The first step of making a cake pop, is actually making the cake it comes from. so after making a cake (from scratch or out of the box, theres really no difference) youre going to want to let it cool completely which takes about an hour
After the cake cools completely, youre going to wash your hands, if you haven’t done so already and crumble the whole thing up into a bowl until there are no large chunks left and its almost powder-like.
Transition: Don’t worry about this part, it isn’t meant to look pretty. In the words of Andy Rooney “I don't like food that's too