Banana Bread Cake Pops w/Walnuts & Icing

Hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day! Well typical me, on Feb 13th I got home from work (my husband was gone on the overnight shift) and I realized, hey tomorrow is V-Day and I have nothing. Pretty typical for me, and him. So, since I didn't really cook last weekend I thought I'd make him something yummy out of whatever was left in my house, which was not much. Again, we had bananas and since he loves them, I decided to do something with those. Cleaning out a closet last week I found a cake pop maker I got 2 years ago (apparently I wanted to try this cooking thing before but failed). Except I did use it once and my cakepops looked and tasted like little turds, not something edible by any means (one of my dogs might argue that). So I thought I'd give it another go and make something banana-ish. I actually got this recipe idea from a multiple places but didn't use any specific recipe, I combined ingrediants. I'm pretty proud!

Banana Bread Cake Pops

Makes about 40 balls!

1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
2/3 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 bananas mashed up

In a bowl mix flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg together. Mix eggs, extract, veggie oil in a separate bowl, and slowly add in solid ingredients until all mixed together with mixer. Then add bananas in, and again keep going until all mixed together. I used a cake pop maker and filled the bottom of each dwelling almost to the top with batter.
I saw the cake pop maker said 4-5 minutes per batch, and it took around 4.5 minutes total. This time, they didn't come out like turds. That was a plus :).

Icing with Walnuts  (and Jimmies on some!) 

I took this basic recipe from food.com titled "Basic Vanilla Frosting"

2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons milk (I had 1% and that was fine)
1/2 tsp vanilla

Combine all ingredients on medium speed until smooth. I have not mastered icing cake pops so I only spread it on the top half, then dunked the pops in either jimmies or walnuts.

I really went Martha Stewart on this one and even put them in cups with tissue paper to appear like a bouquet. Fancy, huh?

They came out edible, very edible! My husband actually likes them better refrigerated with the icing cold.  I like this baking thing, the cooking, not so much!