Monday, May 9, 2011

Ladybug cake pops

Over this past weekend, I've made up a batch of ladybug cake pops. What are cake pops, you might ask? They are cake balls on a stick. They are getting more and more popular at parties these days, thanks to the creator at bakerella.com. The ingredients require one box of cake mix, one third of a can of icing, lollipop sticks, styrofoam block, sprinkles, and chocolate chips or candy melts of various colors (optional: markers with edible ink). The ingredients can all be found at baking supply stores. Basically to make it, bake the cake according to the instructions on the box; after the cake has cooled, crumble the cake to fine pieces by hand. Mix the cake crumbles with icing, keading the mix until the mix starts to stay together. Then mold the cake pieces to desired shape and refrigerate for 2-3hrs to make the cake balls firm. Next, the fun begins! Melt the chocolate chips in a bowl (approximately less than a minute, too long will cause the chips to burn and will not form a good coating later on), stick a lollipop stick into the ball and dip the ball in the chocolate to coat the ball. Let excess coating drip off the cake ball. Set the lollipop on the styrofoam. Decorate the cake ball when the coating has hardened. Enjoy!


On a side note, what if there are no chocolate chips with the color you want? A lady at the baking supply store told me you can just get those white chocolate chips or candy melts and powder (not liquid or paste) form of food coloring to mix it together to get the desired color coating!


Here is another cake pop set I've made in the past: