Dear Minions!
How's life? Thought I'd share my latest baking adventure with Monster, Ghosty Cake Pops! Delicious!!! So! Here's how we made them!
Here are all the ingredients you need! For our cake pops we use rainbow/confetti cake, chocolate frosting and white chocolate. Also pictured are the eggs, oil and water that the cake batter calls for as well as lollipop sticks.
Preheat your oven while you prepare the cake batter. Follow the directions on the back of the cake box. This particular cake mix calls for egg whites only. If you don't have an egg separator you can always use your hands by spreading your fingers just slightly and letting the egg whites seep through your fingers while the yoke stays in your hand.
Once the egg whites, oil and water are added mix the batter with an electric mixer.
Before pouring your batter into the pan make sure to grease your pan. You can either use cooking spray or butter. I prefer butter since most cooking sprays contain butane, and I'd rather not consume even trace amounts of it myself :) I've found the easiest and tidiest way to butter a pan is to use a piece of paper towel wrapped around your index and middle finger. Simply scoop up a bunch of soft butter and spread it around. Voila! Greased pan and clean fingers!
Pour your batter into your greased pan and bake for the time specified on the back of the box. The best way to tell if your cake is done is to insert a toothpick into the center of your cake, if the toothpick comes out clean you're done! If not bake for another 5 minutes and try again :)
Here is our finished cake!
To speed up cooling time cut cake into quarters and remove from pan to a wire rack.
After washing your hands start crumbling up your cooled cake.
Now that the center of our cake is all crumbled into small little bits.....
It's time to eat the crispy edge bits :)
Soften about half the jar of frosting down by popping it in the microwave at 10 second intervals. You want to soften the frosting, not make it runny. We had it in in for 20 seconds total.
Add the softened frosting to the cake crumbs and mix with a spatula until well coated.
It may look like poop now, but I promise it's delicious!!
Grab a chunk of batter and make a ball about 2 inches in diameter.
Form the ball into a bell shape with your fingers.
You've made your first ghost shape! Yay!!!
Now, just make about 23 more! Once all your ghosties are formed and placed on a cookie sheet put them in the fridge to firm up for about 2-3 hours.
To melt the chocolate down you can either put it into a microwave safe bowl and melt it at 30 second intervals but we prefer to use a double boiler method since the chocolate can get too thin in the microwave and make it difficult to coat the ghosties properly. A double boiler is super easy to make, fill a small sauce pan with a couple inches of water and bring to a boil on the stove. Put the chocolate into a small metal mixing bowl and place on top of the sauce pan.
Stir the chocolate regularly to help it melt.
Once the chocolate is melted dip a lollipop stick into the melted chocolate about 1/4 of an inch down.
Once the end is dipped insert it deep into your ghostie, about 1/2 - 3/4 of the way into the ghost to keep it on the stick while dipping.
Take the chocolate bowl off the boiler and coat the ghostie in the chocolate, you'll want to have let it sit for a couple minutes after inserting the stick to let the chocolate glue set the ghost to the stick.
Let excess chocolate drip off.
Stick the lollipop sticks into a styrofoam block to allow them to dry without touching a surface. You'll want to do two layers of the chocolate coating in order to completely mask the brown chocolate insides.
Here's a bunch of our dried and double coated ghosties :)
If you can get a hold of it, edible ink pens are the best option to draw on the faces, but we have yet to find them for sale in our area o we use decorating gel to make our faces!
Here are the eyes......
And the spooky mouth.........
Voila! A tasty, tasty little ghost! They're just like eating chocolate coated tim bits! Very sweet and highly addictive :)
Also, if you run out of chocolate for coating you can always make reverse ghosts with white chocolate eyes and a milk chocolate body :) Still just as tasty :)
These make a lovely halloween treat for the kids (and grown ups too!) While Halloween is months away I thought I'd share this now to give you plenty of time to "practice" *wink wink* before the festive season is upon us :) The Monster and I are planning to use the same method to try our hands at some Dalek cake pops in November for the premier of the newest season of Dr. Who, I promise to post pics of that little adventure :)
Hope this post gets you salivating and baking! So, until next time my darlings........
Keep kreepin'!
Missa Deadlove xoxo
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