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Cake Pops!
So, this afternoon I made dessert for NYE tomorrow night. The inspiration came from here: Cake Pops! although, of course, mine were never going to be that ambitious. Still, I'm happy with them. They are utterly adorable. :)
Step 1: Make a cake. I used a basic chocolate packet mix. Then broke it into smallish pieces in a bowl to cool down.
Step 2: Crumble it up into a breadcrumb consistency. I just used my hands, but if you're lazy, I guess you could blast it in a processor.
Step 3: Mix in enough icing (or frosting, if you're American) to hold it all together in a sticky truffle style mix. I used about 2/3 can of Betty Crocker vanilla frosting, mostly because I can never actually make icing to a nice consistency. Stick it all in the freezer for twenty minutes or so - or a couple of hours in the fridge.
Step 4: Melt a little bit of chocolate in a small bowl. Take a bit of cake mix and roll it into a ball (about the size of a large marble - too small and it looks silly, too big and it'll fall off the stick later). Dip a lollipop stick in the chocolate to act as glue, then stick the cake ball on the stick. (Aussies, I got the lollipop sticks at Spotlight.)
Stick them back in the freezer for ten-fifteen minutes. (I did them all in batches of 12-20, because it's easier to keep the cake cold and the chocolate melted in small batches.
Step 5: Melt a bigger bit of chocolate in a bigger bowl. (As photo above). I used white chocolate and food colouring. Mix to whatever colour you want, then carefully - CAREFULLY - dip the cold cake ball in the melted chocolate. It took me a few times to work out how to manage it. It'll depend on the size of your bowl and the consistency of the chocolate. (The pink one in the middle up there is one that fell off the stick.)
Poke the sticks into some Styrofoam block to keep them standing up until the chocolate sets.
Step 6: I tried piping some white chocolate on as designs, but this was really time consuming and didn't really look brilliant, so I gave up after this batch.
I ended up making a dozen or so each of pink, blue, yellow, green and purple:
(the foam, handily, was the packaging that came with my Christmas television, so, thanks, Santa!)
And now they are very carefully packed away in tupperware in the fridge waiting to be very carefully transported to Wallan tomorrow.
They are utterly adorable (and really yummy), but they are also horribly time consuming. After the initial cake baking, it took two Simpsons discs (so about twelve episodes) to mix them, roll them and dip them, but that includes a lot of down time while they were freezing up, as well.
But Cake Lollipops!
Step 1: Make a cake. I used a basic chocolate packet mix. Then broke it into smallish pieces in a bowl to cool down.
Step 2: Crumble it up into a breadcrumb consistency. I just used my hands, but if you're lazy, I guess you could blast it in a processor.
Step 3: Mix in enough icing (or frosting, if you're American) to hold it all together in a sticky truffle style mix. I used about 2/3 can of Betty Crocker vanilla frosting, mostly because I can never actually make icing to a nice consistency. Stick it all in the freezer for twenty minutes or so - or a couple of hours in the fridge.
Step 4: Melt a little bit of chocolate in a small bowl. Take a bit of cake mix and roll it into a ball (about the size of a large marble - too small and it looks silly, too big and it'll fall off the stick later). Dip a lollipop stick in the chocolate to act as glue, then stick the cake ball on the stick. (Aussies, I got the lollipop sticks at Spotlight.)
Stick them back in the freezer for ten-fifteen minutes. (I did them all in batches of 12-20, because it's easier to keep the cake cold and the chocolate melted in small batches.
Step 5: Melt a bigger bit of chocolate in a bigger bowl. (As photo above). I used white chocolate and food colouring. Mix to whatever colour you want, then carefully - CAREFULLY - dip the cold cake ball in the melted chocolate. It took me a few times to work out how to manage it. It'll depend on the size of your bowl and the consistency of the chocolate. (The pink one in the middle up there is one that fell off the stick.)
Poke the sticks into some Styrofoam block to keep them standing up until the chocolate sets.
Step 6: I tried piping some white chocolate on as designs, but this was really time consuming and didn't really look brilliant, so I gave up after this batch.
I ended up making a dozen or so each of pink, blue, yellow, green and purple:
(the foam, handily, was the packaging that came with my Christmas television, so, thanks, Santa!)
And now they are very carefully packed away in tupperware in the fridge waiting to be very carefully transported to Wallan tomorrow.
They are utterly adorable (and really yummy), but they are also horribly time consuming. After the initial cake baking, it took two Simpsons discs (so about twelve episodes) to mix them, roll them and dip them, but that includes a lot of down time while they were freezing up, as well.
But Cake Lollipops!