Spring Cake Pops!

Favourite foodie online store, Yuppie Chef, hosted a Spring Cake Pop Challenge recently. I had to bake a birthday cake for my friend at work so I decided to take up the challenge and make these cute cake pops for her. It's really easy to do and it's so much fun!

What you need:

1 x firm baked cake (I did cheat and used a vanilla cake box mix)

125ml of icing

cake pop sticks

Chocolate (I used the compound chocolate which can be reheated and has a glossy shine)

Colouring

Icing flowers

A block of styrofoam or a colander

Optional - brown flower pot & mint green vermicelli

What you have to do:

Start by breaking your cake into crumbs. Yes, the cake you just baked. You can get in touch with the child in you and use your hands, or use a food processor. Mix the icing with the cake crumbs to form a firm yet moist texture.

Roll the mixture into little balls. You can use a melon baller or small ice cream scoop if you wish. I am terrible at using any of the two and my balls are funny squares, but they looked good in the end! Stick a stick into each ball.

Pop your cake balls into the freezer for 10 minutes.

Melt your chocolate in a double boiler. I added a bit of pink colour to the white chocolate to create the palest pink. After every 10 pops, I added more colour to darken the pink. Try to have your chocolate deep so you can dip the entire ball into the melted chocolate.

Dip the balls into the chocolate and stick into the styrofoam to dry. Before the chocolate sets you can attach your flowers or sprinkle your sprinkles. Repeat until complete

For the flower pot, I cleaned the pot and MrB cut a piece of styrofoam for me to fit the pot. Using food glue I attached the vermicelli (I went for the school craft method of spreading the glue, sprinkling the sprinkles and dusting off those that didn't stick). That was the pot and green grass done. I then stuck pops into the styrofoam and that completed the flower pot look.

To see some AMAZING pops, please go have a look at Bakerella's page. WOW!

Flowers up close

Cake pops in display on my friend's desk

All the entries for the challenge on on the Yuppie Chef #cakepopchallenge board in Pinterest. View is here and see the amazing entries. I had fun doing it but based on the amazing creations out there, I have no chance of walking away with a gift voucher. And that's ok, my friend was happy