Saturday, March 22, 2014

Cake Pops!

I decided, well my mom and I decided to finally try out the gift I got for Christmas 2012! Terrible I know but you all know what they say - "Better late than pregnant never."

Gift I received for Christmas 2012




First things first, get yourself a cupcake recipe (use the one below) or simply buy a ready mix cupcake mixture if you are lazy, like we were this day...Sssshhhhh!

Ingredients:

2 Eggs
200ml Thickened Cream
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
3/4 cup Castor Sugar
1 cup Self-raising flour (Sifted)

Method:
  • Preheat your oven to 180C
  • Spray and cook your cake pop tray ( Top and bottom tray)
  • Crack eggs into a 250ml measuring cup and then fill the cup to the top with the thickened cream.
  • Pour that into a mixing bowl and beat with an electric beater for one minute
  • Add vanilla essence and sugar, beating for three minutes
  • Fold in the already sifted self-raising flour and stir until blended.
  • Spoon your mixture into the cake pop tray

  • Bake for 15-20 minutes


  • Stand in Cake Pop tray for 5minutes before you remove them to cool

 
Decorating:
 
So while your cake pops are cooling slightly...

  • Melt your chocolate
  • Dip your cake pop stick into the melted chocolate and then insert that into your cake pop

  • Once you have done this, allow them to cool in the fridge.
  • Once they have cooled completely, melt more chocolate and dip each cake pop into the chocolate until each one is completely coated.
  • You can decorate using sprinkles or simply dribble another colour chocolate over each cake pop.

  • Ta-dah! There you have it, now enjoy!


Confession time - I ate three, they were delicious and I don't regret it one bit LOL! 

My friend Leigh-ann also makes cake pops but she simply uses sponge cake and breaks it up into cake crumbles, she then mixes it with butter icing, rolls them into balls and sticks the balls onto a stick and then decorates - those are rather yummy as well as they have icing sugar inside! Either way you want to make your pops, I can guarantee you, you won't be sorry.