Here is a simple recipe and instruction on how to make cake pops!
You will need: 125g slightly salted butter, at room temperature 125g superfine caster sugar 2 medium eggs 125g self raising flour 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
8 inch (20cm) cake tin, greased and lined.
1. Preheat the oven to 325F (160C) gas mark 3 2. Put the butter and sugar into a food processor and beat on medium speed until white and fluffy 3. Slowly add the eggs as you continue to bea the mixture. Then sift over the flour and cocoa and continue to mix until everything is well combined. 4. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake in the preheated oven for 25mins, or until risen and cooked through. Test if its cooked by inserting a skewer. If cooked the skewer comes out clean 5.Leave your cake to cool in the tin for 30-40 minutes then turn out onto a wire cooling rack for a few hours to cool down completely. Even better, make the cake the day before you want to make your POPs.
To make the POPS! (makes 20 pops) 1 cooled cake 70g full fat cream cheese 140g confectioners (icing) sugar - sifted
1. Put the cake in a food processor and process to form a mixture with a crumb-like consistency. Put to one side. 2. Combine the cream cheese and confectioners sugar in a food processor until well mixed. 3. Combine the cake crumbs and cream cheese frosting with your hands until all the frosting is incorporated and you are left with a moist mixture 4. Measure out 30g of cake mixture on digital scales. Roll this into a ball and place on a plate. Measure and roll 19 more balls. 5. Put the plate of cake balls in the refrigerator and let cool for a few hours or, if short on time, in the freezer for 10-15mins until hard, but not rock hard or frozen through.
then you just decorate as you wish! you dont even have to put them on sticks if you dont want to. Melt some white chocolate, add food colouring and dip in the pop. Then sprinkle with nuts, edible glitter, coconut = whatever you wish! A polystyrene block would be handy to stick the pops into to let them dry. Cover them in cling film before you put them into the fridge.
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CommentAuthormummy2Olivia_Lisa
what the hecks a cake pop? lol x
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CommentAuthorx~Hails~x
I tried to make these and failed lol
Luckily the cake lady i use for birthdays etc makes them and shes going to do me a 100 for £60, which i thought was fab as she normally charges £1 each :-)
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CommentAuthorSpecialSundae
Cake mixed with icing rolled into a ball and put on a stick to look like a lollipop. I'm not an enormous fan but they do tend to go down well.
CommentAuthorx~Hails~x
Its a mini cake on a stick hehehe
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CommentAuthorSpecialSundae
I've got some leftover cake to use up. Can't decide whether to make baked Alaska, cake pops or a triple chocolate trifly thing.
CommentAuthorlinzi
i think they would make good place name thingys. Tie the persons name tag onto the stick with a bow. Give them something to munch on whilst they listen to the speeches before dinner.
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CommentAuthorlinzi
oooh triple choc trifle would be my choice! cant go wrong with choc, sponge and cream. Yum
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CommentAuthorSpecialSundae
I make killer chocolate mousse, so was going to soak the sponge in a liqueur mix and line a bowl with it and then fill it with chocolate mousse with lots of chocolate chunks, then whipped cream on top with grated chocolate.
CommentAuthorlinzi
sounds lush SS. Especially if you use cherry liqueur. right up my alley!
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CommentAuthorSpecialSundae
Sadly Grant hates cherries, so I think it would probably be orange liqueur... or maybe raspberry.
CommentAuthorBarbieBride
ooh these look super cute :D I just love cake xx
CommentAuthormummybez
I don't mind what you all make but I do think you should send some to me so I can taste test them for approval first, lol.
CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
Anyone anymore recipes?
In this recipe - is the icing sugar there to purely sweeten the cream cheese or also as a binder? I'd love a recipe with lower sugar - not so much because of a diet but more suitable for kids.
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CommentAuthorA.Bird2b
I find cake pops a bit too sweet for my liking made to that recipe (though h2b can't get enough of them) I tend to use my own buttercream icing recipe to bind the cake crumbs into a mush, and I use a LOT less sugar than most recipes, I find that with the sweetness of the cake and the chocolate coating its far far too sweet if you have a sweet icing to bind it. Its all down to personal taste LittleMissBossy, use as much or as little sugar as you like.
CommentAuthorA.Bird2b
Oh, and to go with my chocolate cherry brownie wedding cake I'll make some chocolate cheery brownie cake pops too, i use sour dried cherries which takes some of the sweetness away and makes them a little more grown up
CommentAuthorClareS
ooo thanks for this Linzi, going to have to make some lol x
CommentAuthorKellyD
ooo these are great. i seen some of these on a random site i was looking at but cant find it anymore. im gona have a go at them :P thanks xx
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
I don't like buttercream so the creamcheese does appeal to me. I normally cut down sugar to half in nearly every recipe as I just don't like it.
Any other recipes?
I bake a lot but have never made cake pops. I assume I can use any old spongy cake and mix it with whatever to make it mushy? Like a soya substitute?
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
My cake-pops are made with a chocolate cupcake recipe & primrose bakerys frosting all mushed together! Then I dip them in cadburys chocolate as these are the biggest hit... Yum yum x
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
That is the only buttercream I like. But I can't stand Cadburys :-)
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
700grams crumbled chocolate cupcake & 350-400grams vanilla buttercream & whatever chocolate you like to dip them in :-)
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
Thank you - great to know the relation of quantities. I will only use a small amount to test and use cream cheese I think. My son is all excited about making them for daddy tomorrow :-)
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
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I have a cream cheese frosting recipe if you would like that? Aww that's great :-)
For anybody that is making them for their wedding & wants the perfect ball, you can pick one of these up for a couple of quid on the bay...
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
If you don't mind yes please! :-)
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
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4 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature 4 cups icing sugar, always sieve 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 6 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
Will you be making Red Velvet cake pops LMB?
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
Ah butter in it again. Though always worth a try.
Red velvet would be suitable but no time and no funds tomorrow to buy a load of new ingredients. Will conjure something up from my stash at home :-)
I can imagine that cake pops work well with gluten free cake base as it's often a brownielike consistency anyway.
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CommentAuthorFuture mrs mac
Really want to bake these - will have 2 get a cake baller :) x
