Easy Cake Pops Recipe
Made using cake leftovers, these delicious little cake bits are so easy to make and you can decorate them in so many ways! Here I used leftover Red Velvet cake and white chocolate ganache to make some simple Valentines Day cake pops.
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Small saucepan
- Greaseproof Paper
- Small Bowl
- Baking Sheet
Ingredients
- 200 grams leftover cake
- 180 grams white candy melts
- sprinkles
White Chocolate Ganache
- 100 grams white chocolate
- 35 mililitres double cream
Instructions
- The first job is to make the chocolate ganache. Break the white chocolate into chunks and put in a bowl. Put the double cream in a saucepan and bring to the boil before pouring over the white chocolate. Stir the mix until it's combined and then set aside. Don't let this set too hard - you want it to be the consistency of peanut butter so you can mix it into the cake.
- Take your cake leftovers and crumble them into a mixing bowl, making sure there aren't any large chunks. You can use your hands or a fork for this job.
- Add the ganache to the cake crumbs and mix through, squeezing the mixture to make sure it's really well combined.
- Form balls weighing about 30g and put them on a baking sheet covered in greaseproof paper. You should get 10.
- Put them in the fridge to chill for an hour.
- After about 50 minutes, melt your candy melts gently, either using a microwave on 10 second bursts or using a bowl over a small pan of boiling water. When they are melted, take your cake pops out of the fridge.
- Gently reshape the cake pops if needed - depending on the consistency of your cake pop mix when they went in the fridge they may have "drooped" and need rerolling a little.
- Dip one end of a lollipop stick into the candy melts and then insert into the cake pop balls. You might want to rest them in a cup or glass to keep them upright.
- Let them chill in the fridge for 10 minutes to set the candy melts.
- Add a teaspoons of oil of the candy melts to thin it down a little bit.
- Take the cake pops out of the fridge. One by one, dip them into the candy melts mixture, tapping the stick on the edge of the bowl and turning the cake pop as you do, to get any excess candy melts off. Put your finger on the lollipop stick and twist the stick to get a nice neat finish on the cake pop.
- The cake pop coating should be set within an hour. When it's set, remelt the candy melts mixture if you need to. Spoon some into a piping bag and drizzle over the cake pops. Add some sprinkles to the top and voila!