Here's some cake pops I made for bowling bake sale, idea from Bakerella's website http://bakerella.blogspot.com/ Basically make whatever cake mix you like. I ground up the cake into crumbs in food processor. Mix icing into the crumbs (I used packaged icing)...a bit at a time, you don't want soggy mix, used the kitchen aid mixer and it worked well. I formed it into the proper shape, chilled it, formed it again, then put on chopsticks ( you can get package of them at dollar store). Only thing I might do differently next time is dip the sticks into the coating chocolate before inserting into cake balls ... because without doing that, they were turning around on the stick instead of being stable. I bought different colours of merckens at bulk barn, and melted then in a double boiler. then just dipped the chilled figures into the melted mixture. Only problem is some of the coating cracked, which is fine for a bake sale, but maybe not fine if you wanted to sell them. I think because the figures are chilled, that might be the reason they crack, because maybe the mixture expands a bit underneath the coating when thawing... I also used coating to coat oreos and put different decorations on them like crushed candy canes, and stripes of other colours.
The boxes aren't very Christmas, but I bought them in summer from Michael's Craft Store, It's the Martha Stewart brand of packaging boxes. The cake pops are stuck into foam covered in wrapping paper.
The chocolate cupcakes are using the recipe for the cake in the blackout cake recipe below (in a previous post) and used a unsweetened chocolate icing recipe, (since all I had on hand was unsweetened chocolate).
Icing Recipe
5 squares unsweetened chocolate melted in double boiler and cooled
1/2 cup softened butter
1/3 cup milk
4 cups icing sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
Put all together in mixer and let it do the work!
I tried to make a shelf stable cream cheese vanilla bean icing using the jello no bake cheesecake mix, but the icing tasted grainy...not sure if it was supposed to be dissolved in hot liquid or what, I've never used it before, but It basically tasted gross, so I will not be bringing these... (although hubby disagrees that they taste bad)
1 comments:
I have had the same trouble with the sticks for my pops, I usually give up after a while and just dip them. As well I have had the chocolate crack, and I haven't frozen mine before. Yours look fantastic, great idea making bowling pins!
Your cupcakes look delicious too and I am sure, like Hubby, that the cream cheese icing was yummy :)
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