The Cake Pop 'Bakerella' Revolution

Here's what Angie first wrote:
I wanted to make cake balls this weekend, and I wanted them to be pink inside, so I tried making a white cake with raspberries. It made the cake pinkish, but it's consistency just wouldn't work, so I decided to stick with the red velvet cake ball recipe and went to the store and bought a chocolate cake mix to substitute. I also used some pink candy melts instead of the chocolate bark. And just to make them even a little cuter, stuck them on lollipop sticks...Cakesicles anyone?



And from this first 'Cakesicles' random creation sprung a 'Cake Pops' revolution!!

Photo courtesy Bakerella

Photo courtesy of Sweet Lauren Cakes



Photo courtesy of Sweet Lauren Cakes



Photo courtesy of With Love Cakes

Photo's courtesy of Cupcakes take the Cake

Photo courtesy of Sweet Lauren Cakes



Photo courtesy of Sweet Lauren Cakes

From Pip Pip Hooray Stationery Store

How cool are the lego pop holders in the photo! Sue's obviously used rectangle polystyrene... cut rounded pieces .... then glued them together to look like a lego brick then painted them blue! So creative!!

Making marshmallow candy Lego Mini-Figure pop's are easier than you might expect!

You have two options for making the marshmallow base.

1. Cut a mini marshmallow in half and then attached the cut stickier side face down on a large marshmallow.
or
2. Slice the bottom off a large marshmallow and then cut a smaller circle out of the cut piece (Using a frosting tip to create circle cut outs is an easy option). Then attach the circle with stickier cut side facing down on the top of a large marshmallow.

Heat your white chocolate and add yellow edible coloring. (to color chocolate you must use a powder or oil based food coloring!... do not use standard food coloring as they are water based). When I melt chocolate I heat about a cup of chocolate in the microwave for no longer than 2 minutes. When I pull it out of the microwave most of the buds are still formed... but that's ok ... I just stir for a while and they all melt and combine together. (you don't want to overheat chocolate as it will ruin). Just heat in small extra bouts of time if required.

Then just attach your lolly pop sticks to the marshmallow bases and dip away.

You can either use black frosting for the faces which you would pipe on with a very fine piping tip, or use edible black pens to draw the face on (edible pens won't show as dark and the lines won't be as thick though - like you see on the example fondant cupcake character below which I created... I had to re-write over the design a few times to get them darker)