Well! Christmas is here! Merry Christmas!!
To celebrate I am posting up my first attempt at making cakepops.
Ingredients
Cake mix or make from scratch
Candy Melts or cake coating
Frosting of your choice
Decorations of your choice
Lollipop sticks
Instructions
Bake up the cake mix of your choice to the instructions on the packet or make your own from scratch.
Mix and bake your cake as per instructions.
Leave cake to cool and then crumble until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. I cheated and used my magimix!
Prepare your frosting/icing and mix with the cake crumbs until your mixture comes together. I used just over half a tub of Better Crocker readymade frosting.
Roll up your mixture into truffle sized balls and either pop in the fridge for a couple of hours to chill or in the freezer for 15 mins. This is important as they need to be chilled to dip without falling off the sticks!
Melt your chosen candy melts either by microwave or bain marie. Dip the end of your lolly stick into the melted mixture and push into the cake ball and leave to set.
Dip your cake pop into the mixture and straight out again. Do not twist or turn as your cake ball is likely to drop off!
Hold the dipped cake pop over the bowl and turn slowly to even out the coating. Tap the wrist that is holding the stick to remove a build up of coating. This is safer than tapping the stick against the side of the bowl as it is a gentler way to do the same job!
The noses for the reindeer are small candy coated buttons and I used cut down Matchmakers for the antlers (Curly-wurlys may work too).
Before the coating sets, push the antlers into the top of the cake ball gently and pop the nose on the front.
Leave the cake pops to set. I stood mine in some old polystyrene packing but be sure to weight it down first.
Decorate your reindeer with icing and sweets to create the eyes, mouth and ears.
When mine were finished I wrapped them in cellophane with a twist tie to keep them fresh and ready for my tutor group.
I made snowmen too with a vanilla cake mix and white candy coating which was them dipped in sparkly sugar to give a snow effect.
