Cake Pops

Today I decided I'd get back to blogging and tell you about my recent adventures with Cake Pops. My friend Sarah (right) and I have recently become slightly obsessed with the idea of Cake Pops (think travelling 20 miles + just to buy more supplies and texting each other with ideas!). 

We started off making Lorraine Pascale inspired Cake Pops by mixing Oreo cookies and chocolate spread (I found the recipe on another lovely blog here). These tasted lovely and were VERY sweet when coated in milk chocolate - as I don't have a freezer I left them in the fridge over night and this worked a treat. 

The crushed cookies were nice but very dense so we wanted to try out a new idea... We went to Lakeland to get a Cake Pop Maker (highly recommended) and the results can be seen below. 

Firstly we made some cake balls in our new machine - these only took 4 minutes to make 6 and the come out perfectly (almost) every time.  Next once they were cool we stuck our sticks in with a little bit of melted chocolate to keep them in place. We left these in the fridge for 30 minutes...

Then dipped them in melted chocolate. We used Simply Melt chocolate from Lakeland - not only was it easy to melt but it was delicious and tasted of strawberries too!

 Sarah made her first Cake Pop by topping with some cut out  icing shapes and was very happy with the result...

...and so was I!

 

We topped the Cake Pops with lots of different toppings to match the pink chocolate and stuck them in some polystyrene to dry (this could look prettier to match the Cake Pops).

In the end we added named flags and bags and gave them to our family and friends. Some ideas for next time include Hungry Caterpillar Cake Pops, a solar system, stars, clouds... watch this space.