cake pops

so when i made my auntie and uncles cake i cut the sides o the cake and i didnt want to waste them so i made cake pops! So a tip for when you make a cake next time, make cake pops from the scraps or put them in a bag and freeze them for when you have more cake scraps or when ur in the mood for making them. If you want to make it from the beginning you need to make 6 ounces of cake mixture and this should make around 15 cake pops. I used one of the red square moulds.

(there are 9 here but some were eaten before i took the picture)

 

if you cant remember how to make a 6 ounce cake here is what you need to do:

ingredients:

6 ounces butter

6 ounces sugar

6 ounces self raising flour

3 eggs

1-2 tbsp water

1/4 tsp of baking powder

decorations:

lollipop sticks

chocolate or 2 bags of candy melts

sprinkles

icing

method:

1. cream butter and sugar together then crack the eggs one by one and add in the water. whisk it all together

2. fold in the flour and baking powder

3.once it is done pour the mixture into the mould/tin and bake it into the preheated oven at 180 °c

4. to check whether it is done insert a skewer/knife and it should come out clean

let it cool down then break it apart and out it into a bowl then crumble it up into cake crumbs and add 3 spoonfulls of frosting then mix it together so it sticks(add more if needed)

5. roll them into balls and put them onto parchment paper or greaseproof paper

6. once you have put them onto the paper put them into the freezer for 10 minute or the fridge for 30-40 minutes

7. after you have taken them out melt a bit of chocolate, for some colourful cake pops you could use candymelts(if your from the uk you could get it from hobbycraft but if ur from the us i think you can get from the wallmart store im not sure as im from uk)

8. dip the end of a lolly pop stick into the melted chocolate and place it onto the centre of the cake pop and do it to the rest of them then put it into the freezer or fridge

9. once you have taken them out melt some more of the candy melts so you will be able to cover the cake pops

10. dip the cake pops into the chocolate and stick them into a polystyrene block whilst they are still wet you could put some sprinkle on or once they have dried you could do some designs on them with icing

11.if you didnt want to use sticks or u dont have any you can dip them in chocolate and then out it in cases once they have dried