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How To Make Elf Cake Pops

December 3, 2012 By 4 Comments

Last year when I made the Rudolph Cake Pops and Snowman Cake Pops, we had so much fun I planned to make them again.  However my friend Sara suggested I try my hand at Elf Cake Pops…. and well, I am always up for a challenge.

Now, I thought about doing the “Elf on the Shelf” cake pops, but truth is that thing seriously creeps me out.  I wanted something more whimsical – something more like the elves from the Rudolf movie.  And though they do not look quite the way I had envisioned, they still are pretty darn cute.

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Jack-o-Lantern Cake Pops

September 19, 2012 By 12 Comments

Yes, I realize that Halloween is 6 weeks away – but I’ve been itching to design some new Cake Pops using my Babycakes Cake Pop Maker,  so I seized the opportunity!  Here is a step by step for one of the easiest – and cutest – cake pops I have ever made!

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Easter Cake Pops – Easter Baskets

March 6, 2012 By 6 Comments

A few weeks ago the girls and I spent a whole day making and decorating Cake Pops from our Babycakes Cake Pop Maker.  Now, if you have been a MoscatoMom Reader for long, you know that my favorite part about the Babycakes Cake Pop Maker is that you can make so many more things than just cake pops – like cinnamon roll pops, corndog pops, and blueberry muffin pops.  But this day we wanted to make true cake pops – and decorate them all up for Easter.  It was a blast.

The first ones we made were the Easter Bunny Pops which were sooo very simple.  The Easter Sheep Pops were not quite as simple but still just as cute.  While we were perusing online we saw a picture on Wilton’s page of Easter Basket Cake Pops.  We knew we just had to make them.  These were – by far – our favorite.

Easter Basket Cake Pops

Ingredients:

  • Cake Mix – I recommend Pillsbury Funfetti
  • Blue Candy Melts
  • Chocolate Candy Melts
  • Green Candy Melts
  • Small Multicolored Jellybeans
  • Green Sugar Sprinkles
  • Piping bag with Small Tip
  • Babycakes Cake Pop Maker
  • Cake Pop Sticks
  • Cake Pop Stand (optional)

 

Mix your Funfetti Cake Mix as directed on the box.  Spoon one teaspoon into each spot in your Babycakes Cake Pop Maker.  Let cook four minutes.  Use Babycakes fork to put onto a cookie sheet and put into the freezer for one hour.

Melt three or four candy melts and dip the ends of your sticks into the melt and into the cake pop.  Set upside down on a cookies sheet and put back into the freezer for another hour.  You should then have a cookie sheet that looks like this -

Next, melt your chocolate candy melts and coat each cake pop entirely.  Set in your Cake Pop Stand (check this one out!!) to let the candy harden and cool- about an hour.  DO NOT PUT INTO THE FRIDGE – if they get too cold the candy will “sweat” and the next part will not work.

Once the chocolate is completely hardened, melt your blue candy melts and gently dip the Cake Pops upside down half way into the blue candy.  Set them back into the Cake Pop Stand to harden again.   Your Easter Basket Cake Pops should look like this:

After the candy has completely hardened around the Cake Pop, melt your green candy melts and put into your piping bag.  Pipe a line of candy around the edges where the chocolate and blue candy meets, and quickly dip into the green sugar sprinkles.  This makes your “grass” inside of the basket.

Next put the rest of your chocolate candy melts into a piping bag, and pipe the “handle” for your basket.  Since I had a very small tip I put four lines together to make it a bit thicker.  You could also use a wider flat tip for this.

For the “Easter Eggs”  cut the ends off of small Jelly beans, leaving some in the middle – in other words you should have three pieces from each jellybean – two “eggs” (each end) and a middle to snack on… because let’s face it, by this time you are probably starving… or ready to eat the cake pops – eggs or not!

Pipe a dot of leftover candy melts to help them “stick” and place them randomly on the “grass.”   Let your finished cake pops set for at least 20 minutes to make sure your eggs stay put.

These Easter Basket Cake Pops took much longer to make than any of the other Easter Cake Pops – but they were still a blast!  The girls had fun helping – and eating – the leftover decorations as we were making them.

Love these?  Check out my Easter Bunny Cake Pops, Easter Chick Cake Pops, and Easter Sheep Cake Pops!


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Easter Sheep Cake Pops

February 28, 2012 By 14 Comments

Last week when I decided to make Easter Cake Pops I hit up the internet and found tons of cute ideas – my favorite being these little “sheep” cake pops.  I already had the pearl sprinkles so I thought this would be a fun way to use them up.  These were not near as simple as the Easter Bunny Cake Pops but they still turned out very cute.

Easter Sheep Cake Pops

Ingredients:

Mix your Funfetti Cake Mix as directed on the box.  Spoon one teaspoon into each spot in your Babycakes Cake Pop Maker.  Let cook four minutes.  Use Babycakes fork to put onto a cookie sheet and put into the freezer for one hour.

Melt three or four candy melts and dip the ends of your sticks into the melt and into the cake pop.  Set upside down on a cookies sheet and put back into the freezer for another hour.  You should then have a cookie sheet that looks like this -

 

Melt the remainder of your candy melts and gently dip your cake pop into the melts coating the entire cake pop.  Immediately set into cake pop stand (I use large pieces of styrofoam that I poke holes in with a screwdriver – cheap and easy) Place the jellybean in place for the head and hold a new seconds to secure.  Then gently begin putting sprinkles on and kind of “tapping” them into the candy melt to gently secure them.  Do this slowly to make sure the weight of the “wool” does not slide off the other side.

Like I said this took a bit of practice and a bit of time but was fun nonetheless.  Each “sheep” takes about 5 minutes to complete applying the “wool.”  Once you are happy with the wool, place back into your cake pop stand and let set for at least 20 minutes.

Once the candy has completely set and the pearls are secure you can use a dab of candy melts to apply the pink heart “nose” and chocolate ship “ears” (eyes!?) to the jelly bean.   Then put them together in their own little “herd.”

These were the most difficult of the Easter Cake Pops that we made, but they were also the favorite at the party.  We also made them with different colored candy melts which were cute – we had some yellow sheep!

Love these?  Check out my Easter Bunny Cake Pops, Easter Chick Cake Pops, and Easter Basket Cake Pops!

 

 


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St Patrick’s Day Chocolate Mint Liqueur Cake Pops

February 28, 2012 By 10 Comments

Yesterday while playing on StumbleUpon I ran across this awesome recipe for Mini Chocolate Cake Donuts that just totally flung a craving on me.  I have been wanting something chocolatey for a few days, so this seemed perfect.  I planned on making them in the Babycakes Cake Pop Maker of course – making donut “holes” but with the same recipe.  The only ingredient I was missing was the Cocoa, so I headed up to Winn Dixie and planned to make them for dessert.

Then, Mike came home with a box of crack Thin Mints.   My chocolate craving went from just chocolate to a chocolate-mint craving… but the only “mint” I had was Peppermint Schnapps in the liquor cabinet and I was not about to go to the store a second time for just one ingredient… SO – the result?   Quite possibly the BEST tasting Cake Pops I have ever made.

St Patrick’s Day Chocolate Mint Liqueur Cake Pops

Ingredients:

  • 1 stick of butter
  • 1/4 c cocoa powder
  • 2 c all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 brown sugar
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 c Peppermint Schnapps
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 c milk

It is probably best to mix all dry ingredients in one bowl and all wet ingredients in the other and then mix together – but I didnt do that.  I just threw everything in together which made for about 20 minutes worth of stirring to try to beat the lumps out of the batter.   I didnt get them all – which turned out to be ok – but just sayin.

Once your batter is mixed spoon one teaspoon into each cup in your Babycakes Cake Pop Maker and cook for four minutes.  I was highly impressed at how well these puffed up and made perfect little balls – much like how well Pillsbury Funfetti (my favorite cake pop batter) does.  Pop your little yummy bites out onto a cookie sheet and let cool.   You can choose then whether to stick them on sticks or just have “cake balls” – we actually did both.

This recipe yields SIXTY cake pops…

St Patrick’s Day Chocolate Mint Liqueur Cake Pops Icing

Ingredients:

  • 3 c powdered sugar
  • 1/2 stick butter
  • 1/4 c milk
  • 1/2 c Peppermint Schnapps

 

 

The icing takes some time and patience – and sometimes adjusting – to get just right.  The measurements above are very close to what we used, however to get the desired consistency you can add as much powdered sugar as you want.   Obviously the less powdered sugar the thinner the icing is – and the more you taste the Schnapps.   Using a piping bag you can pipe stripes on to your St Patrick’s Cake Cake Pops or use a spoon to drizzle it on.  Either way they taste absolutely beyond fantastic.