Cake pops

A cake pop is a form of cake styled as a lollipop. Cake crumbs are mixed with frosting or chocolate, and formed into small spheres or cubes , before being given a coating of icing, chocolate or other decorations and attached to lollipop sticks.

You can even use left over cake or cake crumbs for making these cake pops.

My cousin and me prepared these last week and it was a hit, all liked it so much. 

Here is the recipe for cake pops.......

Preparation time : 4 hours
Makes : 40 approx

Ingredients :

All purpose flour : 200grms
Baking powder : 1 1/4 tsp
(or alternatively you can use 200grms of self raising flour)
Sugar : 200grms
Unsalted butter : 200rms
Eggs : 4
Vanilla essence : few drops
Butter cream frosting/icing : 4 tbsp approx.
Candy melts : one bag
Lolly pop sticks : 40
Sprinkles : some of your choice

Method :

For cake pops first you need to prepare cake.
Preparing cake :
Take a bowl , add butter and sugar to it and then cream it.
To the flour add baking soda and mix it good.
Beat the eggs with a fork into a small bowl.
To the creamed butter add beaten eggs and flour alternatively in batches and mix them slowly.
Once you added all the flour and eggs add in vanilla essence and mix it once.

Now take a baking tray, line it up with a baking paper, grease it with butter.
Pour the cake mixture in the tray and tap it once.

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees Celsius or 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Keep the tray in the middle rack of the oven for 20 to 25 mins or till when you insert a tooth pick or knife it should come out clean.
Take it out from the oven, when done.
Let it cool down completely.

Once cooled down completely, crumble the cake.
(or you can use food processor or mixer grinder to crumble it)

Add butter cream frosting to the crumbled cake and mix it till it is incorporated very well.
(You should add butter cream frosting till you can form a nice ball out of the crumbled cake, if you add more frosting the mixture will be soggy, sticky and heavy and the cake pops will just fall off the stick when you try to dip them)
Cover the bowl and chill it for at least one hour.

Now make small golf size balls from this mixture.
For perfect measure we used a spoon.
(we took approx 3 tsp of mixture for one ball, to get all even sized pops)
Keep these in a box and cover it.
Keep them in freezer for half an hour.

Just before taking them out from the fridge, prepare your candy melts -
Place candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl and heat in the microwave on medium for one minute. Take out candy melts and stir thoroughly. They may have just started to melt. Place them back in the microwave and melt for a further 30 sec, take out and stir it once again and micro wave it for 30 more sec. (Total of 2 mins approx,.)
Optional : Melted candy doesn't normally achieve the same silky, runny consistency of melted chocolate. To make it easier to work with, you can add 1-2 tbsp of vegetable oil per 400grms of candy melts. Mix the oil into the candy to create a silky consistency.
If you don't have candy melts and you wanna make cake pops you can even use regular chocolate.....
(Don't melt whole candy, melt small amount of candy only, as of now we just want candy i.e enough to dip the stick)

Take a lollipop stick and dip one end in the melted candy. Immediately insert the stick at centre of each cake ball about halfway through. Don't insert it too deep or too shallow.

Some may brake while handling, do some patch work ;)

Place them back in the box.

Keep these back in fridge for half an hour.

Take them out after half an hour and melt your chocolate.

To dip cake pops make sure the bowl is deep and quite full with candy. Hold a cake pop with the stick that we inserted earlier and dip it fully into the candy. While dipping, make sure to cover till top of the stick to secure the pop in place. Gently hold it (or tap it) to remove any excess candy.

Before it hardens, decorate with sprinkles or any other decorations of your choice.

Leave the cake pops to dry completely.
We took a bowl with rice and kept our cake pops in it or you can even use thermocol sheet to stick your cake pops.

Yummy yummy cake pops are ready.
Enjoy them :)
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