So far so good.
Into the mixer for the appropriate amount of time and spooned in pans sprayed with cooking spray. Now it says to fill them up so that's what I did. I filled both pans, that's 36 pops (of course Santa brought the free set, as well) and...
...still had enough left over...
....for 10 more! That's 46 pops from 1 boxed cake mix! I'm SURE I could've gotten more. I ate some raw mix. Oh well, that's how I roll.
Not quite ready for the 350 degree preheated oven JUST yet.
I sprayed the lids with cooking spray as well, put them on the bottom pans and attached them with the little, yellow, silicone-y, rubber-y things that keeps the pans together. On a side note, those yellow things are definitely necessary because...
(Note: This oven says it's Self Cleaning but supposedly a human is supposed to tell it when it needs to be cleaned. I've never done it. THAT'S my husband's job so judge HIM!)
...this is what happened! Without those holders, I'm sure things would have taken a turn for the worse. The instructions say to bake for 25 -30 minutes. I took these babies out before 20 and they were quite overdone which... 
...made it really easy to pop those volcano-tops off.
Here's a closeup. Those rings were overdone enough that I just ran my finger around them and they crumbled off.
I filled the third pan (last 10) a bit less full and still had overflow. Now if you'll notice the top left pop, you'll see that it's quite a bit smaller than the others. That's the RUNT of the litter! I guess I didn't have that well filled quite enough!
I also cut the baking time WAY back! 25-30 minutes really didn't make sense to me initially anyway. I kept testing this batch with my little cake tester and they were done within about 11-13 minutes. This batch wasn't overdone so they looked a little better BUT ALL of the cake pops were kind of dry.
At that point, I didn't care anymore. I melted some white chocolate chips (which DO NOT melt well) and some milk chocolate MELTS (which DO melt well), rolled/dipped the cake balls in the chocolate and topped them with assorted sprinkles and such. They looked pretty. They tasted OK but were a little dry. I took them to the party and everyone seemed to like them. I wasn't REALLy worried because I figured it was New Year's Eve and everyone would be drunk anyway!
AFTERMATH
The pans cleaned up easily although there were 4 to wash (2 pans, 2 lids).
I will try this again, sometime in the future, and see how things turn out with a little tweaking.
Making cake balls the regular way seems to be a bit easier!
