OS Cake Pops!

financially_gaga

Hi all,

Over the weekend, everywhere i went i was followed by cake pops - round pieces of cake on a lollipop stick, then covered with a range of toppings.

Now, i can do the toppings in an OS manner, it's just the cakes themselves. I thought i would make small cupcakes then shape each one into a perfect round. However, i ended up with lots of cake scraps (which got eaten anyway but took forever to do!) and 12 oddly round-ish cake pops.

So the question is how to make the perfect round ball shaped cakes without wasting the rest of the cake and without taking up an entire afternoon to do???

Any help much appreciated! :T

carbbit

I saw a recipe when you made a cake, broke into crumbs and stuck it back into little round balls with the help of a ganache-y like sticky-together-cement thing. Lol. Let me see if I can the recipe again...

carbbit

Here you go: http://www.bakerella.com/make-your-cupcakes-pop/

CFC

Not sure why anyone wants to put a small cake on a stick!!!

zippychick

I must be getting old :eek::o

I found this page on cake pops and there is afacebook page if you google. It's crumbs merged as someone said.

Where do you go that you see these everywhere?

I'm pretty sure we don't have a thread already, but if anyone knows of one, let me know. Otherwise ill merge this with baking quick questions later

Zip

Frugalista

CFC wrote: »

Not sure why anyone wants to put a small cake on a stick!!!

I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking that - WHY??????? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

The world has gone mad :D:D

Kitchenbunny

I've made them. It was a way (admittedly adapted from looking at various websites) for me to use up some fairy cakes which had got a bit toasty in the oven. As crumbs, the cakes were fine, and then I just mixed it with standard buttercream icing and rolled it into balls. When it had set a little, I dipped them in melted chocolate.

I have to say though, that it was around Halloween and the shapes weren't perfectly spherical. They got renamed as Monster Drops

HTH

KB xx

sarahsarah

I've made some too, chocolate cake in a big tin crumbled up, mixed with cream cheese icing then shaped into balls and frozen, then dipped into some red "candy melts" which I bought from hobbycraft and then dipped in sprinkles.... yum!

celyn90

My sister bought me the cakepops book for Christams - it seems to be smashed up cake bound with frosting rolled into balls; if you freeze them they are easier to coat. They advise you use coating chocolate rather than icing or normal chocolate to cover them in.

They look pretty, but I found them horribly sweet and I can't say I was impressed personally.

MummyOfTwo

i wasnt mad keen either. seemed a lot of faffing about!

financially_gaga

Thank you all for your replies, much appreciated.

To those asking where i saw them, local bakery, local coffee shop and then at a birthday party!

I'll try a few and post some pics :T